my 50 dollar vintage setup

Paid 10 bucks for the Pioneer SX-780 , Got the Kenwood KD-2070 Turntable for free a few years ago.

http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/...9/0349cc2d.jpghttp://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/...9/6e307b47.jpg

I am waiting on the mail for one of these and this sucker will be fully functional again

Paid 10 bucks for a replacement darlington power pack
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/...9/b16aabf5.jpg

And tomorrow i am paying 30 bucks for a pair off pioneer CS-88a Speakers (pictured in a lower post)


Gonna be a nice little setup on the CHEEEEEP!!

Nice finds!

hell yeah. i only have one working channel right now till the part shows up but that one channel sounds AMAZING!! Cant wait to hear those SUPER efficient pioneer CS's on it. I know i'm gonna fall in love.

I have the service manual. Just got done aligning the tuner and i am picking up more stations with a small piece of wire for an antenna than my sony pick up with a amplified terk antenna. LOL.

nice i use to have a Realistic receiver that looked something like that back in the day

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Originally Posted by Louisiana_CRX

nice i use to have a Realistic receiver that looked something like that back in the day

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lots of the 70's realistic equipment was great. One thing i like about the pioneers is the phono preamp is seriously one of the cleanest integrated preamps around. Minus some seriously expensive equipment that i could never afford. LOL

Nice find man! Have fun playing around with it..

i already am and its not even fully functional. LOL

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Originally Posted by Bassin Buick

lots of the 70's realistic equipment was great. One thing i like about the pioneers is the phono preamp is seriously one of the cleanest integrated preamps around. Minus some seriously expensive equipment that i could never afford. LOL

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mine was early 80's

well after some closer inspection and digging i think these may very well be the speakers i'm getting. I only seen them with the grills on in the craigslist ad , but i noticed the front lip is tapered in the pic i showed above and the craigslist speakers don't have a tapered lip. But i counted the diamonds in the grill and found these. the grills are identical to the ones in the craigslist ad and they dont have a tapered lip on the front of the cabinet. WOOT!!

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/563...0009medium.jpg

they look nice

i hear they sound terrible. but that is the opinion of the SQ snobs over on audiokarma(dot)org. I seriously can't pass up a pair of speakers that are same brand and same era as my reciever for 30 bucks. LOL

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Now to find a matching TT and i'll have a nicely matched set. :)

Also to back up my theroy that those are prolly the correct speakers........ they are 26 inches tall according to the manual and in the craigslist ad they are against a cinder block wall. The average width of a cinder block is 8 inches and these sit just a inch or so higher than the 3rd block. LOL. Which means they are about 26" tall. I am a ******* super sleuth!

after a little more digging i came up with these too. these are the cs-88 (no "a" in the model number)

http://img1.classistatic.com/cps/po/...3083a9_27.jpeg

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i hear they sound terrible. but that is the opinion of the SQ snobs over on audiokarma(dot)org. I seriously can't pass up a pair of speakers that are same brand and same era as my reciever for 30 bucks. LOL

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Now to find a matching TT and i'll have a nicely matched set. :)

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Well, they definitely aren't the best sounding speakers out there lol.