Dad died a few year back but Mum has just decorated and the old music system is no longer required. I know sod all about such stuff but promised I would take it and use it in the man cave.
It is an amplifier and seperate tape deck, which kind of ages it. Technics Class AA VC4 amp, Technics RS-T230 twin deck tapes* and a pair of Epos speakers.
Are these bits any good, Is it worth setting them up in the garage and where do I get tapes from?
*for the young of these forum tapes are a bit like CDs in that they are old but they also don't make pretty wind chimes so some may survive
It's always worth putting it up in the garage. Not sure it's massively high-end - good enough fpr mancave duties though.
Just buy a dirt cheap cd player or connect it to a laptop.
Ahhh, unravelled cassette tape along the roadside brings back memories. Went the same way as hedgerow porn I believe, left behind in the digital age.
Which EPOS speakers? Some were very well rated and still have value and their followers.
EPOS ES14 are the only labels
Mancave already has the last stereo that was thrown away but this set is probably 30 years old, bigger and separates so must be better right?
Tapes are great.
Technics new SE-R1 power amp:
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Just a little retro...
And in the '80s it was futuristic, and BLACK
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Brilliant speakers, very well thought of.
Always fancied a pair.
Sounds like a cracking system.
Needs a nice pair of stands and a Rega turntable.
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I brought a cheap Bluetooth streaming speaker (was £10 in Tescos!) and modified it (bodge style) so that there was a line out connection with the normal phone plugs on the back, and hence it plugs into any seperates amp. That means you can stream music from your phone/laptop with spotify etc. For a tenner it's a bargain!
So please advise me, in really simple dumb terms.
There are holes in the back of the Amp that will accept two cables like the red and black ones you can see to the right of my photo.
To get 'modern' music to play I need something like my phone, PC, iPad or similar to connect to the AMP.
1) This means I need something to adapt from the black and white connectors to a modern device (USB?). How do I do that?
2) How do I get (free) music into this system?
3) Anyone want to shift their old tapes, I now have a method to play them. If they can work out how to record from this using modern storage I will do this and send you the 0 and 1 result. I may (will) need simple instructions on how to do this.
Cheers
WCA
You can get a cable for a fiver in T**co that will connect the headphone/output socket of your phone/digital radio/iPod to the Aux or Tuner inputs on the back of your amp.
It'll sound great.
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There are holes in the back of the Amp that will accept two cables like the red and black ones you can see to the right of my photo.
They're phono connectors.
What are those connectors labelled up as? If it says "Phono" then it's expecting a turntable which will have a very different signal from everything else ever made ever. If it says "Aux" or pretty much anything else, you're golden.
Easiest way of connecting would be a 3.5mm jack to phono cable. Unless it's a Phono stage input, in which case we need to rethink this.
Anyone want to shift their old tapes
Do you want blank tapes or music?
The speakers are excellent, even by today's standards. The rest, less so.
There are pair of holes for phono, cd, tuner, aux and 2 tapes (one currently used)
If you want to get rid of your tapes I will take them but do not want or need blank tapes.
I was thinking that if you had a tape you wanted transferring to digital I might be able to help
Spotify negated 99% of my need to do that.
Aux is what you want, then. Grab something like this,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cable-Mountain-Plated-3-5mm-Phono-Dark-Blue/dp/B001KEVSX8
I've about 100 cassettes, but they're from my childhood so they're mostly C60s / C90s containing, erm, backups of 80s cheese and hair metal. If that's your thing you're welcome to them for postage.
ES14's were a cracking speaker back in the day. Had a black ash pair myself. Were well matched to Naim amplification and, if I remember right, were designed with the 32/250 combo in mind (and no doubt the inevitable LP12). I'd hold on to them. Have you got the Epos stands too? As a confirmed Naim fanboi it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the other items!
And in the '80s it was futuristic, and BLACK
Nope, first it was all silver, then it went a sort of champagne colour, particularly Marantz kit, [i]then[/i] it all went black.
I used to sell HiFi kit, car and home audio, Technics/Kenwood, Pioneer, Denon, KEF, B&W, Castle...
Even bloody B&O, nasty posy stuff that it was/is.
Re the cassette deck inputs on the back of the amp - one pair (cassette in) connects to the "output" phono sockets on the cassette deck; the other pair (cassette out) connects to the input sockets on the cassette deck. This then allows you to record from the turntable or any other input into the cassette deck, should you ever feel the need to do so. Of course, it's all done in real time so you probably won't bother with that, I remember doing that and it was a right PITA
Seriously it sounds like your best option is to sell the amp for approx 75 the speakers for somewhere around 200+ if they are in VGC and get yourself an ipod dock for the garage.
Many people would want the speakers and Technics amps always sell.
They deserve better than a garage as driven properly they are great speakers.
Got and use daily a similar amp, cd, tape, radio set up with Mission 8 speakers 😆
Disco loud in a small room.... 😈
I have the same amp, just so you know, class AA will always be burning the same amount of power regardless of whether it's outputting to the speakers or not. In the case of this amp I think it's 90w so be sure to turn it off after listening. Unless you're minted.
I was at the Bristol show yesterday and the new Technics gear was pretty decent sounding even their little system (well little compared to the 40k big one). Audio note though, Jesus that stuff's good.