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We all know that home theater is not dead. And surprise, your video is not declaring that home theater is dead. So your video title is clickbait. Well done, you got a view out of me.

Fried eggs hurt my ears to much tteble

Buying a home with a big room for home theater can be a bit challenging in recent years as home prices have gone up so much that they are no longer affordable.

You definitely need to recap the speakers . Those caps are drifting all over the place and the end result is a dull sound with no center image . Trust me the speakers sound a lot better once this surgery is done . The speaker has a 1st order crossover and this allows for a wide sound stage but power handling is limited . I had a pair of large advent speakers and ended up selling them because I prefer the overall balance of the Nova's .

Happy New Year Scott. Thanks for your channel

happy new year ! God bless you!

Yes, I have seen almost all your videos.They are very impressive. But I have to say that your comment on not having any room treatment is very mislead if that is what you were referring about a dedicated listen room ? Havimg an echoing room can sound horrible. Or maybe I misunderstood you ? Happy New Year

Wishing you a great 2025. Greetings from Brazil.

Keep the vintage flag flying....big and heavy blah blah...but nothing can touch it sound wise.

Happy New Year Scott, all the best. Loving all the items you bring us.

LOL, yea, VR movies are going to catch on just like 3D glasses! 🤣

the bigest enemy is your family :)

Happy New Year! Great job with the channel. Truly enjoy the content and your take on things !!

Happy New Year. Fired up the Marantz and KLH 17, Technics TT the last few days. Might need a little deoxit on the controls or not. Enjoy!

The reason why these are in such high demand in Asia particularly in Vietnam is during the Vietnam war, the 800T was the flagship receiver you could buy in South Vietnam along with a pair of Acoustic Research AR3s. Of course the vast majority of Vietnamese at the time could not afford it, but now 50 years year those Vietnamese that grew up seeing those units can now afford it, and are now buying it in droves. Units available during the war also included Sansui 5000A and X, 9090DB, pioneer CS99A 88A 77A and to no one’s surprise those units fetch quite a price today and they are being shipped directly to Vietnam. We Vietnamese audio guys call those units “legends”

I think headphones will rule in the future. Fewer people buying homes (and keeping them). Fewer people getting married. And a lot of music today sucks and isn’t worth high end prices. Btw there were high end cassettes and reel to reel back in the day (Otari, Nakamichi, JVC etc.).

Hey brother i just left you a question on your upload video of your Pioneer Pl-90 turntable. Would you take a moment and review my question so i can possibly be more comfortable knowing i have it setup properly as far as the overhang goes. Thank you and happy new year.

Hey wandering if you did the cartridge setup on this PL-90? I have one myself and would like to know if you have the overhang gauge? My service manual says it is a pioneer pec-012 which i found were supplied with some pioneer s-shaped tt's. This pec-012 has a 49mm overhang, at least what i have found on audiokarma. Seems like many Pioneer specs show a 15.5mm overhang and this number is on some of the gauges for sale on ebay specifically for the 49 mm overhang. Any help you can give would be great. What cart do tou have on this setup?

I have a Willsenton R8 still in the shipping box. A new years resolution...

I hooked up my KT-8300 tuner today! I had it but never used it. The variable output with my headphones...WOW!

Happy New year audio enthusiasts! My resolution for 2025 is to finally get my first tube amplifier!

Well I’ve learnt something today I didn’t know about my 680zx 👏😎

The 901's like the professional version the 802 were very good for PA applications. They could play very loud and had good dispersion plus the had very good efficiency. That was it. They had absolutely atrocious fidelity. No highs no lows... must be Bose was not a slander, it was a fact. What could you expect from a speaker that only had midrange drivers? To make matters worse they werent very good ones! Stereo imaging was horrible.....by design! The included equalizer made them listenable since otherwise the sound quality was abysmal. However it could not fix the unfixable fact of an all midrange array, a frequency response that, at best, was more or less linear from 250 to 3000 hz, everything else was missing or distorted badly. Thats why Bose never quoted any specifications, they were atrocious, particularly for the price! For home music listening the cheaper Bose 601 for infinitely better, at least it had proper high and low register drivers for a semblance of full audio spectrum reproduction.

My dad kept his since I was a kid. Still works well driving old EPI tower speakers!

How would you compare these to the Model 19? Would the larger horn on the 19 give a broader and less focused mid and high frequency dispersion than the coaxial steps like these? Does the offset of the 19's horn above the woofer change the music center significantly over the coaxial? In both cases, (these and the Model 19) I have never seen the cabinet interior. Do these have any baffling behind the bass port that would create any horn effect for the port? I know some who have altered the port size on similar speakers (VOT's for one) to change the low frequency response somewhat, to either lower it or to flatten the response curve. Any of these big monitors depend on positioning to deliver the kind of sound the listener wants. Putting them in a corner allows the walls to become a horn of sorts, and raising them off the floor or keeping them on the floor will radically change the bass, but I've never heard a set of speakers like this that I hated the sound of, regardless of how they were positioned. If I only had a room worthy of something like these, I'd love to have a set, but red just doesn't do it for me. I'd have to veneer them to a nice walnut color.

I enjoyed your channel, the ADS L710, L810. Saying that, have you reviewed B/O Beovox S45-2 or the S70's. Would be interested how they stack up to some of your reference gear. Thanks

PBN Audio is in San Diego. Company is run by Peter Noerbeck who is indeed Danish.

I've got a 120" UST set up with a 5.1 system. When I'm not using it the screen retracts into its case. You're not seriously recommending a soundbar over even a basic surround system like I have?

Happy New Year Scott and also to your subs! Thanks for all the hard work and dedication needed to make a great channel like this! Hope this year brings you many awesome surprises, so you can share them with us!, LOL Cheers Dan!

It’s just plain fun to listen to different speakers at a stereo store, I love having a switch/switches that allows you to go between speakers allowing to compare speakers real time…those were the days

You forgot reel to reel audio which evolved into the cassette tapes. Then 8-track. Then VHS for home video. "Then, CD's.

TV resolution should’ve stopped at 1080p, 4k and up look too fake and weird

You are absolutely right I have the best pics of each period allowing me to have top notch hi-fi system.Some are young timers but by example my amp has doubled of value in more then 10 years of joy of use

It would be interesting to compare your rating to the MSRP. It would give an interesting ranking of performance per dollar.

Like have had many models of klipsch including heresy 1 and 2 and 3s,they all sound little sharp on the high ends, like cervin vega they are rock&roll party speakers,the only klipsch I kind of like are the KLF models unfortunetly the boxes on those models were poorly made.

Exactly what Ken didn't want!

An emotive subject. Audiophiles are getting older. Ear buds will take over. 🙂

Marantz was the only company to rate their big boys at 4 ohms. The 2600 was rated at 400wpc at 4 ohms so arguably one could say it was top dog.

This 1970's design is still present in recent Yamaha HiFi equipment.

I really appreciate the blast from the past videos you do. At times you feature something that was a teenage fantasy to some. I wanted KLH Barons, Koss CM 1030, Infinity Quantum Line Source, Pioneer HPM 200 because of a magazine review, (at least until I heard the sound of the HPM 100). I realized then that colored nasal sound wasn't for me. I also dreamed of owning speakers that a theatre used. Never could find out which ones they used. Also dreamed of the speakers Laserium used. Found out they were JBLs; 38 of them all playing at the same time. The fantasy is long faded. I never owned any of them. I made only one bad speaker purchase, and except for its Asian coloration it was not bad, and I' have owned many speakers. I was lucky and researching helped. Happy New Year!

I scored some dcm timeframe 600s for $20 this year

One could argue the Marantz 2600 was top dog due to it being the only one rated at 4 ohms, 400wpc. Stereo Review September 1978 pg 66 has the Technics SA-1000 advertised.

Your content is always worthwhile.

Because of severe protection of artists musical rights, RUclips videos like this are basically dudes or dudettes talking about how great a sound system is and nothing more. Specs are nice in print articles but are a waste of time without hearing music in a video. This guy seems like a nice guy, but....

Hollywood and electronic companies not embracing 3D FULLY was the bullet in the head , home theater and electronic stores. If they would've really took there time we would have these 100 inch TV's with 3D and electronic stores would still be selling equipment

What a great summary of all your videos this year, there's a few that I'll be revisiting. Looking forward to watching your videos in 2025, and growing my knowledge of all the glorious equipment you show us. Wishing you Scott, and your family a very happy and prosperous New Year!👍🏻🎵🎶

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Another great video Scott but surprisingly you don’t have any Phase Lanier, which I thought dominated the early 70s to mid 70s. Keep up the great work.

It’s funny everyone hates the 80s blackface era but it’s nostalgic to me. I was born in 83 and a JVC black tower cabinet is what my dad had and passed down to me when I turned 10 in 1993 and got me a Sega CD, my very first music player. Also remember my mom showing me how to handle your CDs responsibly and not chuck them around like so many young people did my age.