Any Audiophiles here at Parfumo?

Lately, I've slowly resurrected an old passion for hi-fi components comprised mostly from the 1970's. Naturally, Mrs. Aromi is overjoyed that her obsessive-compulsive husband has turned his attention to yet another hobby.

I'm presently building a Marantz system since they were always my favorites for not only sound, but aesthetics as well.

Anyone else share an interest in sound quality and equipment?

Cool. Repairing these classic components is an expensive proposition. You can buy them from certain online collectors or ebay for reasonable prices, but fixing them is another matter entirely !

I prefer them for a few reasons. They have a softer, analog sound ( tubelike ) than their modern, digital counterparts. They also look cool as hell. I played guitar at a high skill level until 8 years ago, making "sound" and "tone" preeminent with me.

I hope you find a reasonable price to fix your speaker.

Unfortunately, my flat is too small for full grown hifi equipment. In one room, I have some nice components by NAD with a pair of simple Mission compact loudspeakers, and in the other room, I have a mishmash of a 20 year old Nakamichi receiver, a Technics standard CD player of the same age, a 35 year old Technics turntable player (fully automatic!), and still a 20 year old Onkyo cassette player.

I am proud of my homemade boxes: 2 little steel blue bass-reflex columns with small Fostex full range speakers. They are also about 20 years old, and I should find the time to replace the speakers and redo the cablework.

YOWZA !!!!! Now that is SWEET !!!!! Thanks for the awesome image.

Just saw this today... I guess by my avatar you could indeed say my other love is high-end audio. The picture is of one of my favorite fragrances (Linfedele Haiku) on top of my main rig's Consonance Droplet CD player. As expensive as fragrance collecting can be, being an audiophile is a bank account emptying proposition.