I was just wondering what kind of audio system do the younger people of this board have. When I say younger people I mean anyone 18 and under. Well, I'll start it off by naming what my system is.

Mains: Cerwin Vega E-715's

Center: Cerwin Vega E-76C

Surround: Cerwin Vega E-710's

Subwoofer: Aiwa TSW60

Receiver: Onkyo TX-DS595

CD player: Kenwood CD404

Also I would like to know if you are planing to make any upgrades to your system in the near future. For example I want to upgrade my Aiwa sub soon but as for now I have to worry about getting the E-715's.

Thanx for reading,

Chris

..nice set up for your age, I think I had a clock radio...

I think my son runs a couple of old bookcase Bose, very old LARGE box Fishers,
some HK reciever (he bought for about 400)and a JVC VHS, with the playstation for DVD's.

Right now, he's waiting on me to upgrade, because he's spending all his $ on his car & girl!

Your son is lucky, sometimes I wish I had a girl to spend money on. However I think I will wait until next year when I'm 17 before I start dating. By that time I hope to have my home audio setup completed and have truck fixed up really nice, air bags, ground effects, bed cover, spoiler, you know those kind of things.

Oh yes I usually don't include this when I talk about home audio, but since your son has a PS2 then I have to say I have an XBOX for dvd use.

Chris

[This message has been edited by Thenotsonewguy (edited February 09, 2002).]

Don�t worry, your time will come, and the grass is ALWAYS greener on the �other side�
When you don�t have a girl, looks like the whole world is �couples� �not true.
Right now my son�s desperate to finish his yearlong project car, and the GIRL gets in the way, (and he misses his guy friends�not allowed).
She gets in such a snit about his divided time, I have to laugh and apologize to �my� husband when I ask him if I ever acted like that, (he says I didn�t I bet I did!)
You see, my husband & I started dating at 17, (we�re a rare breed), so we had a lot of hard learning over the years.

America is a pretty weird place, so many movies, books telling you one thing or another, but�I swear you�ll find out 20 years from now; its not how �many� girls, or �when� the girl��.the truth is someday,.its all about the � right� girl.
(most the men I know, gave up looking and trying so hard, tired of searching. And then, as soon as they gave up,.. no rhyme or reason, �boom here she came)

Your smarter than the average Joe Blow, and your right, buy all your toys first! Cause after you got a girl, your too broke for any of that stuff.

My son would prob like a XBOX but he�s too smart to ask, He knows what I went thru to find the PS2 the first Christ. it came out. I bet its cool.

hi, im 16 and i have an outlaw 1050 reciver, with all monster and audioquest cables, i have a 20" sony trinitron vega for my television, a $230 sony dvd player, sony tape deck, sony single disc player (early 90's) home made hardwood stand, real cherry wood (perffect replica of sanussound stuff).....................................................................ok here is the only bad part, i have a pair of pioneer front's from the 80's or 90's (they don't sound that bad) an advent center, and soundbite rear speakers. yeah i know the speakers really really suck but i will be soon upgrading to monitor audio silver 5i's for front's and still don't know about the other speakers.

If I was you youngguns I would not be to worry about having old speakers. Before I got my Onkyo 595 I was using duel 2channel amps. One was an Onkyo TX-8511 and the other was an old Fisher X-100 integrated tube amp. The Fisher came with a pair of old Magnavox speakers which were at least over 30 years old. But when I hooked up those babies to that Fisher (which is like 40 years old I think) those speakers shook my whole house. At the time I only had a pair of Cerwin Vega E-710's and I could not believe how much more bass those old Magnavox produce while having the same size woofer. But sadly my old X-100 died on me a few months after I got it, no big deal I got it for free from my grandma anyway. I hoped to have it rebuilt one of these days because for being as old as it was it was a very good integrated tube amp. So don't always judge a speaker by how old it is, you might be surprise by how much the new stuff is not that big of an improvement.

Chris

Also I forgot, I would like to know what some of you older people had when ya were young in terms of audio gear.

When I was in my teens, I had a Panasonic shelf system (dual tape deck, digital tuner, turntable) with some Panasonic speakers (little particle-board towers with a single 5" speaker in each) and a Pioneer 6-disc CD changer. Ditched the speakers for generic bookshelf speakers that weren't much better after high school, bought a Pioneer receiver and tape deck after freshman year of college, added a Panasonic S-VHS VCR (still in use) and 19" TV after junior year of college.

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Gonk

I also had a Panasonic shelf system. No turntable, dual cassette, single disk CD player, digital tuner. Particleboard single-way speakers with 4" drivers. I had it from about the time I started high school (birtday gift from parents) until maybe two months ago, when I replaced it with the 1050, soon-to-be 950/770. QUITE an improvement. :-)

I didn't own a TV until after I graduated from college. And that wasn't really a TV, either; I bought a cheap JVC VCR and used it as a tuner for an old 13" computer monitor. Had the whole mess sitting on the kitchen table. That was replaced, also about two months ago, by a 27" Sony Wega. Also, QUITE an improvement.

For game systems, yeah, I had a 2600 when I was real little, which my parents upgraded to an original Nintendo a few years later. That was the last game system I had until I bought a PS2 about two months ago. That was an UNBELIEVABLE improvement.

Once this round of upgrades is finished, and I get the 950/770, I probably won't upgrade again for quite a many years. I'm the kind of guy who likes to do things all at once.

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Matthew J. Hill
matt@idsi.net

Matthew's remarks brought some fun memories back. I also owned an Atari 2600, and I didn't own another game console until I picked up a Dreamcast back in December for $50. And there was a year or so in college when I didn't have a TV but I did have a pretty nice VCR (didn't record anymore because the record head was shot, and we had to pull the cover off a couple of times and clean the read heads). One of my roommates had a big JVC stereo system (CD changer, tuner, pre-amp, and amp) and a really old TV that had a speaker problem -- if the TV was on, the speaker constantly spewed static. I loaned him my VCR to use as a cable box (with the audio going out to his pre-amp) and he drove a screwdriver through the TV's speaker until it was silent.

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Gonk