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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 29, 2012 - 10:05pm PT
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folks, I've been without music for too long. Next month I'm moving into a 850-sq ft apartment (i.e. small but not tiny) and want to have a decent audio system.
I want good radio (AM/FM, NPR), play CDs and vinyl. Not really into mp3. And because my place is amallish, space is at a premium.
I haven't checked out audio in 15 years, so I don't really know where to begin. My budget for this sort of thing is about a grand.
thanks
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Mar 29, 2012 - 10:16pm PT
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If you can do without the vinyl, a Bose Wave Radio/exchanger would work at a lot less than a grand, big music from a small box.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Mar 29, 2012 - 11:36pm PT
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When you go looking for a turntable, make sure you've got a cardiac resuscitation team on standby for when you look at the price tags. Retro ain't cheap.
However, somewhere in most cities is an old guy with an audio repair shop, who probably has a decent turntable gathering dust on a back shelf that he'll sell at a good price to the right person.
The rest of it won't be too bad. Although you may have to buy a little pre-amp to put between the turntable and the amp, because a lot of modern amplifiers don't expect you to be asking them to work with dinosaurs.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Mar 30, 2012 - 12:01am PT
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Even a pawn shop might be a decent place to find a turntable.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Mar 30, 2012 - 12:14am PT
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Get a good internet connection and a bitchen computer sound system. Amazing the sound quality you can now get out of the stuff they have these days.
With high-end audio, you spend tons getting the last few percentage points past what you get for a few hundred bucks with decent speakers and a sub-woofer.
That is, unless you have a monster pad where you can crank real speakers. Then you can spend $10,000 on a nice pair of speakers, and enjoy them.
I have a pretty decent stereo, but most of the time I just listen to Radio Paradise off my computer. You can get NPR, and tons of other streams, for free.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 30, 2012 - 02:54am PT
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I agree with khanom and others, keep as much of the old analog stuff as is still good. Craigslist is a good start for finding older components that are still good. Digital music has it's drawbacks as far as fidelity is concerned, but there are some inexpensive solutions. There are some awesome sounding powered speaker systems out there can play anything digital or analog that might be a good solution for a small space.
Check out Crutchfield, they have a lot of good free tech info on their site.
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