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Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 20:36:13 2015 No.2454141 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2454164 >>2454654 >>2455107 >>2455330

What audio equipment do you have in your /vg/ battlestations? Do you use a modern AVR, or vintage equipment? Surround sound or stereo?

Pic related, a Denon PMR-770 I recently picked up for cheap. I'm in the middle of building a retro gaming setup, so I don't have any speakers for it yet, but it sounded great in the store and I can't wait to use it for vidya.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 20:52:13 No.2454164 Report

Quoted By: >>2454179

>>2454141
I have a soundblaster AWE64. I don't have much of a retro battlestation, I have that and a raspberry pi. I should have had an athlon64 with a vortex2 card, a pentium 3, and at least one 22 inch trinitron monitor, and so on, but shit got ugly. Oh well, I'll be fine with that, I'll probably end up getting another Pi, and probably a sound card for that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 21:09:42 No.2454179 Report

Quoted By: >>2454262 >>2455330

>>2454164
>soundblaster awe64
fucking lucky man

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 22:04:40 No.2454262 Report

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>>2454179
Not at all! I went to a place that was chock full of this stuff! Those aren't even genuine yamaha-chip soundcards. I didn't even manage to scoop up an OPL4 or PCI-yamaha card. No reason to be grateful, just upset. And I hardly managed to scoop up enough stuff to have some at a good bit at hand in case someone else needed something(or for spares).

It totally sucked. It was difficult to put up with, people eagerly throwing out such stuff, sound cards just because they were ISA based.

And I totally would have wanted a retro with solid sound battlestation, a hifi-style retro system. And I HAD come across something really suitable for that, standard nonshrunken ATX cases in desktop shape, and they were even totally clean! The only issue was that they would have required dremmeling or tin-snipping an exhaust fan hole(92mm). And those got thrown out faster than anything else!!

Ugh!

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 22:30:04 No.2454318 Report

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I was working an estate sale at my job and I came across this Interesting piece. My boss let me have first dibs and let me have it for $10. I think it's really cool. It's a little hard to see, but it has a greenish-blue LED clock on it.

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 23:22:04 No.2454402 Report

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>>2454318
Metal speakers, interesting.

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 23:38:37 No.2454431 Report

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>>2454402
It's to match the front of the cassette player clock. The sides are all wood grain.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 00:03:03 No.2454473 Report

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>>2454431
I think you'd have a hard time finding a case to match that. I know brands like Lian Li boasted aluminum cases, using aluminum exclusively, and back then left it unpainted AFAIK. It would be even harder getting a case that's part wood, though I believe there are several.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 00:39:33 No.2454547 Report

Quoted By: >>2454921

My PVM doesn't have speakers, so I got a cheap pair of Logitech PC speakers and a 3.5 mm to RCA adapter cable. Originally I had the PC speakers plugged straight into the adapter, but now I run a splitter first, with one output going into my MDR-V6s and the other output going to my capture card.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 01:40:17 No.2454654 Report

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>>2454141
I'd say track down a set of Infinity Kappa series 9 speakers, but that little amp couldn't handle the awesome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 03:08:55 No.2454790 Report

Quoted By: >>2454825

>>2454654
What do you mean, that amp seems fairly big and somewhat complicated ... unless those speakers are just wantonly extravagant for some bizarre reasons?

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 03:25:42 No.2454825 Report

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>>2454790
pretty sure anon was being funny... those are like huge $1500 speakers. OP's amp is a nice vintage piece... better than some of the AVRs at best buy, but Infinity Kappa 9 speakers are like 5 tiers above.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 03:45:02 No.2454875 Report

Quoted By: >>2454956

>>2454825
>OP's amp is a nice vintage piece... better than some of the AVRs at best buy
Considering that buying new was going to be $300 for anything decent, and I got that amp for $60 instead, I'm pretty tickled with it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 04:04:13 No.2454921 Report

Quoted By: >>2457293

>>2454547
>All those adapters
You wouldn't believe how much frustration I've saved myself over the years by learning how to solder my own cables and connectors.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 04:20:26 No.2454956 Report

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>>2454875
yeah, dude, it's a nice integrated amp... sound quality should be really good.

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Teach Sun 07 Jun 2015 06:20:44 No.2455107 Report

Quoted By: >>2455113

>>2454141
It's a nice system, and has held up pretty well over time I guess. It was a Kijiji caprice that I picked up for 250 with a couple of Mission bookshelf speakers. Everything works well, I just have never tried the video throughput.

It feels nice to have a PS1, PS2 and PS3 in vicinity of more Sonyware.

Teach

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Teach Sun 07 Jun 2015 06:24:08 No.2455113 Report

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>>2455107
But tbh, in my living room, I've got an Onkyo all-in-one (Onkyo HT-S7700). I seriously need to improve the cable management. 14 speaker cables plus BEFORE the actual AV cables or power. It gets unwieldy quickly without a cabinet enclosure.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 06:31:13 No.2455125 Report

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I have a really nice Zenith stereo console from the 70s. Loud as shit, sounds great, easy to work on. I put some new RCA inputs for external stuff and hardwired a 3.5mm lead for plugging in MP3 players.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 10:23:25 No.2455330 Report

Quoted By: >>2456617 >>2456672

>>2454141
I use a modern 5.1 system. One of those little amps that comes with little speakers. Have done since the mid 90's. Stated with the Bose lifestyle, then a JLB and now Philips. None have had the thundering power of my old BSRs but I'm not 18 years old an trying to piss off the world any more.

>>2454179
Read >>2454262 100 times.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 15:21:10 No.2455587 Report

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And a pair of Philips Fidelio X1 headphones. Most modern amp I could find with S-Video.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 00:06:23 No.2456617 Report

Quoted By: >>2457862

>>2455330
>2454179
>Read>2454262 100 times.

Huh?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 00:42:34 No.2456672 Report

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>>2455330
>but I'm not 18 years old an trying to piss off the world any more
That's why we have basements anon, you should try it sometime. Makes a great location for a killer home theater setup, that won't have your neighbors loathing the air you breathe.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 00:45:14 No.2456683 Report

Quoted By: >>2456734 >>2457614

This is currently what i use in my setup.

Got it refurbished for under 200. I love it.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 01:11:12 No.2456734 Report

Quoted By: >>2459562

>>2456683

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 06:01:52 No.2457293 Report

Quoted By: >>2457327

>>2454921
I hear that reducing the amount of connections like that is good for sound quality.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 06:26:05 No.2457327 Report

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>>2457293
Technically there's some resistance added, but nothing really enough to make a discernible difference. It's just a pain in the ass, unwieldy, and more likely to break or have a poor connection. And then there's the aforementioned ease and low cost of making your own.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 10:56:52 No.2457614 Report

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>>2456683
dudethisthingrules

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 11:01:27 No.2457619 Report

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meu som caseiro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOeGnFBbps

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 15:10:17 No.2457862 Report

Quoted By: >>2458457

>>2456617
Kid was being stupid. Needs to read the answer 100 times to become less stupid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 20:59:16 No.2458457 Report

Quoted By: >>2458683

>>2457862
hey, that's pretty unfair! The _normal_ way you'd gather up all a pile of such computer parts is in whole systems, where the cards truly are the luck of the draw! and then you had awe64 owner going on about _deserving_ to have all sorts of weird parts, that's just, i don't know... its confusing!

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 22:54:43 No.2458683 Report

Quoted By: >>2459516

>>2458457
As the other guy said the AWE64 is in no way special, weird, or rare. Neither is any of the other stuff he was "going on" about. Not knowing what's inside your machine is only normal if your kid bought it so you could skype with your grandchildren.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jun 2015 06:20:46 No.2459516 Report

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>>2458683
Well, if you had to single out of those things, the P3 would likely have been the rarest of those, since they were Tualatin cores.

Sure, things could have been worse, I scooped up the cards soon before they were going to be thrown away, the guy that let me have them failed to find certain things notably valuable, particularly mechanical keyboards.

Yeah, they were obviously not exceptionally rare, in fact in the pile there were a lot of Creative Labs cards of many, many sorts, and a few Aureal chip cards, but only one vortex 2 card was a seriously packed, elaborate card. I can't remember having noticed any Roland cards, and no Gravis Ultrasounds. But there were a lot of Creative ones, they varied a lot. There were a few ES1373 or something like that, the ones with the Ensoniq chips, but I don't believe those are of particular interest gamewise; some of the soundblasters were really huge, I think that included an AWE32. I didn't dig around for any two board soundcards, the type with a detachable wavetable module, I was more bugged by other shit going on around.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jun 2015 06:58:00 No.2459562 Report

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>>2456734
>Micca MB42x
Muh nugga

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jun 2015 07:35:26 No.2459607 Report

Quoted By: >>2461102 >>2462964

Sound Cards:
Aureal Vortex 2 card (for A3D games)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro (for EAX games and Phono IN on the console thing)
Yamaha Labway Xwave-6000 Pro (for midi and adlib dos games)

Processors:
Creative DDTS-1000 (used as a Pro Logic II/DD/DTS sound processor for consoles)

Speakers:
Creative Gigaworks S750

Headphones:
Pioneer SE-Q404

Other things:
Technics SL1200 MK2 with eternal PSU and 78 RPM mod and Ortofon Arkiv
Sony TC-K909ES

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jun 2015 23:13:30 No.2461102 Report

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>>2459607
>Yamaha Labway Xwave-6000 Pro (for midi and adlib dos games)

It supports both midi and adlib setup settings? Does it work well, have you by chance been able to compare it to more typical sound cards?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jun 2015 05:50:50 No.2461701 Report

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>>2461102
Odd, there's integrated versions of that line of sound chips, but the only motherboard I know it's on is an intel-manufactured noncompact ATX one.

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Anonymous Wed 10 Jun 2015 22:47:23 No.2462964 Report

Quoted By: >>2463075

>>2459607
>>2461701
That's a very interesting line of sound chips, though for some reason, 4 out of 6 motherboards with a ymf740 are full ATX.

Aside from the MU440EX, this board sounds like it could be nice to have:
http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/soyo/SY-6IBM.htm
It's also got on board ATI128 video. ... so, I guess it would be most useful for a win9x box.(though some games back then complained if you were running in too high color mode)

One thing I'd be worried about, it's by Soyo, I heard of reliability problems with that. (but then, this board has a BX chipset, maybe it's exceptional)

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Anonymous Wed 10 Jun 2015 23:53:20 No.2463075 Report

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>>2462964
>4 out of 6 motherboards
...that's of the ones I know about, didn't mean to imply that's all. Actually, it's 6 of 8 I've come across. (sage)

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jun 2015 02:02:23 No.2463286 Report

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What about this thing?

The Intensor?

Now that's a wild item! Anyone have it?

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