Diatone are awesome vintage..

I have a pair of pristine "almost" vintage Kenwood speakers with me...about 20 years old. Almost zero scratches and certainly no dings. Yes, humidity is a killer here but I reckon the main reason why our used products here are nearly all fit for the bin is the matter of fact that we do not take care of them once we purchase newer items.

I also inherited a pair of B&W speakers from my dad which is from the 70s. It is somewhere in my Ipoh house all wrapped up. Maybe I should bring it in from the cold and test the bugger. Hope the speaker cone doesn't drop off the cabinet. Maybe I should start recording it before I blast it.

I have a pair of vintage denon speaker, look like kind of LS3/5a, pair with a i-dont-know-brand turntable. The mid and high sound alright but the low is unbearable. The woofers are definitely gone.

I notice in Malaysia, the rubber surround the speaker cone deteriorate easily. And if the cone was untreated, it become so fragile and you can feel powder things came out when blow it really hard. Next, the speaker used somekind of chip board as surrounding and line side lining all are detached from the main cabinet.

Definitely, I wouldn't be able to do anything on it except as collectibles.

To prolong the speaker, store your 'lovers' in air-conned room and cover the speaker with their grille and a cloth. I heard someone told me dust is acidic whenmixed with humidity.

If the cone is yellow in color, it should be kevlar as B&W incorporated the use of kevlar in 70'

i clean my speakers once a month....
dusting off, making sure there's tlc given...hehehehe
my wife sometimes gets jealous over my other 'lovers'

I have a vintage Luxman stereo amp driving a pair of bookshelf spkrs for my son. Also hv a Exposure XX driving more than 2 decades old Klipsch KG4.2 floorstand spkrs in another room for my PC.

Can't remember what color it is. Am heading home end month for a wedding dinner so perhaps will locate and drag it out.

Maybe I will even find a few bullion of gold behind it. Hahahahaha.

i'm actually wanting to look for a vintage luxman tube amp
recondition the amp....some minor upgrades perhaps
then maybe pair it with xls encore....hehehehehehe

ahhh still undecided what to use for my study room.....

plus i might get the Xiaomi 4k tv for my study room..hahahahaha make it become my computer monitor
i dunno why but after few years of using the same monitor....i start to find it small....

Cool.

1 question, where are u gonna get your Xiaomi 4k tv? I am looking for 1 also.

saw it on groupon
2799 comes with wireless sound bar and subwoofer
49inch....android builtin...

all the tech specs that makes an outdated geek like me drool

If found a few, can instantly upgrade

My dad's has a transistor radio but I couldn't remember where he put it.

we should start a vintage collection thread soon...hehehehehe

too bad my wifey is against me collecting too many.....she asked me this before...
why do i want to have so many sets of hifi....like coming soon my dedicated audio room....then study room oso wanna put
living hall also wanna put....

how to explain?

My dilemma exactly

Tell her you can't breath without music.

if i do that...i will spend the next week alone sleeping in the hall

hahahahahahaha

If not mistaken, there exist a vintage thread somewhere deep inside this section..lost for quite sometime, assuming there's very little interest among young people here who're more into headphones and the kind.
I only keep certain vintages purely because of sentimental value. Can't be acquiring them all and turn my home into a museum. Home is home, not a hifi shop nor museum nor showroom. My records and CD's have already taken up lots of space not to mention spent a lot to organize and house them in proper cabinetry.

This post has been edited by bsl555: Oct 2 2014, 01:31 PM

Solution:You néed to change your wife.

Everybody's been awfully quiet these days...I actually have a question:
I have the Krell amplifier but it does not a headphone output. How in the world can I rectify that situation whereby I can use my headphones?
Should I get another preamp or is there something else in the market?

This post has been edited by josephhkng: Oct 11 2014, 03:11 AM

well you do have a few options

headphone amp connected to either your source or amp.....which ever has another preout to your headphone amp

sources nowadays have digital and analog out

if your analog is connected to your krell.....you can get a DAC/headphone amp... connect the digital out from ur cdp

third option....unlikely....change to amp with headphone out

mid end systems and up usually the headphone is omitted....
but lately audio research, mcintosh and some others are putting back the headphone amp circuits...

Krell has a preamp that has a headphone jack hole. U think it'll work?

yup....if there's already headphone jack...generally all heapdhones can be powered up