my 50 dollar vintage setup

[Bassin Buick]

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

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

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!!

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[MANTI5 10+ year member]

Nice finds!

 

[Bassin Buick]

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.

 

[Bassin Buick]

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.

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

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

 

[Bassin Buick]

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

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

 

[Team TH (Donny) 10+ year member]

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

 

[Bassin Buick]

i already am and its not even fully functional. LOL

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

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

mine was early 80's

 

[Bassin Buick]

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!!

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

they look nice

 

[Bassin Buick]

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. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Bassin Buick]

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!

 

[Bassin Buick]

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

 

[Suicide Bobb 5,000+ posts]

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. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

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