Old tech outlast new?

[abacus]

Everything that is in the public folder is accessible, (my photos and my music). With that withdrawn Web interface with log in page, I can't access my NAS when I'm out and about. When I double click my private folder it brings up that seagate log in page even though it doesn't work.

I see, I thought you couldn't access the private folder from your home network, not externally.

Bill

 

[Cricketbat70]

With you all the way there, DC.

This is still my main system :

Denon DRA 455 stereo receiver, 2001
Mission 750LE speakers, 1999
Thorens TD166 mk2 turntable, circa 1980
Marantz CD5400, youngster at 2006 !

Simpler times, but quite disappointing that "proper" hifi seems to be harder to come by for the next generation, and consequently what they put up with, audiowise.

My main system:
YAMAHA DSP-A761 AV receiver 2007
Tape deck from an old TEAC reference 300 system (1990's)
Denon RCD-N7 for cd playing duties 2010? (that was my first relatively smart device and streams from my NAS but its other smart functions are defunct now.)
TASCAM MD350 minidisc recorder (old man and his toys)
Rega Planer 3 from around 1978.
Samsung Bluray player not sure of the model 2018ish.
Eltax monitor III 2008
Eltax bipole surround speakers. 2008
Chromecast Audio for streaming Spotify to my main system.

Dining room system Denon mini separates system DRA-F101 from 2001 with a chromecast audio for Spotify and streaming from my NAS. Speakers Eltax concept mini speakers mounted way too high on the chimney breast wall on little plastic btec brackets. Tying to convince Rach to let me make some solid shelves lower down and put my dad's old Mordaunt Short MS10 pearl edition speakers on them but she likes the Eltax speakers, small and out of the way.

I'm surprised my two chromecast Audio's still work and haven't been bricked by Google.

 

[matthewpianist]

I have a few bits of old tech that still work flawlessly:

Rotel RCD965BX
Sony CDP-990
NAD 5425 CD player
NAD 5120 turntable
JPW Sonata
Mordaunt-Short MS10i
Rogers LS2a/2

I also have a Philips CD104 which reads and plays discs perfectly, but which needs a bit of a push to get the tray to complete the last bit of its travel when closing the drawer, and a pair of Acoustic Research AR18s which have been refoamed but have been rewired incorrectly by some clown before me, so that if wired correctly as the terminals are labelled, they are out of phase - easy enough to sort, but they're not speakers I plan on using at the moment.

Amplifier-wise, I currently have the two modern ones I swap between - Audiolab 6000A MkII and Mission 778X - and a recapped NAD 3120, but the NAD's phono pre is faulty. It works and sounds nice, but there is a swishing sound which can be heard when the music is very quiet or not playing.

 

[James105]

I think I might need a single vision pair for computer work the reading part of the lens is so small when I turn or lift my head ever so slightly I'm looking through the distance part of the lens and everything is blurry.

I have whats called an office prescription varifocals as well as a normal pair of varifocals. Office is reading to about 3 or 4 metres away much better as the reading size is that much larger.

 

[matthewpianist]

Retrieved the CD104 from the cupboard during my lunch break, and it's sounding rather good. It's built like a slab of concrete.

 

[nopiano]

Retrieved the CD104 from the cupboard during my lunch break, and it's sounding rather good. It's built like a slab of concrete.

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I remember the early machines had cast aluminium chassis or something similar, and it was some years before plastics could be engineered to those tolerances. Having a laser device in the living room seemed like ‘rocket science’ back then, so it’s no wonder that the early machines were £400 upwards. That’s getting on for two grand today!

 

[Steve983]

All my 80's NAD gear is going great. Of course it has been fully recapped and serviced. I guess its down to whether people think its worthwhile to repair stuff. There seems to be more of a trend to sell for repairs or spares on E Bay and for those with the knowhow to repair, service and sell on. I would certainly never take any hi fi unit to landfill, that would be a sin!

 

[Cricketbat70]

All my 80's NAD gear is going great. Of course it has been fully recapped and serviced. I guess its down to whether people think its worthwhile to repair stuff. There seems to be more of a trend to sell for repairs or spares on E Bay and for those with the knowhow to repair, service and sell on. I would certainly never take any hi fi unit to landfill, that would be a sin!

I have a Denon PMA250 MKII from 1991, my first purchase when I got into hifi separates. We use it at work and it has been repaired a couple of times at work by our service engineer. I was given A Roksan Kandy K2 not working, took it into work it only needed a cap replacing. That is currently sitting on a desk at work. I'm not getting rid of a Roksan Kandy even though my wife won't let me keep it at home "you've got enough junk"

 

[matthewpianist]

I remember the early machines had cast aluminium chassis or something similar, and it was some years before plastics could be engineered to those tolerances. Having a laser device in the living room seemed like ‘rocket science’ back then, so it’s no wonder that the early machines were £400 upwards. That’s getting on for two grand today!

To think this is now 42 years old!

It's got a CDM1 swing-arm transport, a full metal chassis and it's non-oversampling - things you'd probably pay the earth for if anyone packaged them together in a new player today. I'm not aware that anyone makes a transport of that sort of bullet-proof engineering these days.