HiI'm looking for a stereo system for my garage, a receiver and a couple of speakers. Any help will be appreciative.
Thanks,
Joe
Yep was going to say the same thing.Hi
You would be surprised and amazed what you can find at garage sales
Garage stereos in my experience usually consist of an old car stereo and speakers with a 12-volt power supply to run it. You always needed to do something with the factory stuff when you upgraded your car to something better.Depends on what you want to play. 8 tracks? cassettes? Cd's? digital? or radio?
I personally default to old garage sale 80's boom boxes outside because I'm usually listening to either AM or FM radio. The good ones have great speakers.
A great description of a hillbilly engineered sound system.Go vintage, with that Pro look.
A salvage car stereo with half the display out, mounted through the side of your toolbox with speakers in an ammo crate, hanging from the ceiling.
Be sure to cut all the holes while drinking heavily, make patch bezels out of some kind of scrap.
Screw those up too, hide the sins with copious amounts of RTV.
Wiring, mismatched bits from the rats nest of, "don't know what this wire does...cut it out". There should be a wire-nut every coupla feet...on every wire, no crimp connecters allowed.
Powered by an old battery and cheep ass charger. Wires held on the posts with crappy chicom vice grips.
Tech notes: No matching screws allowed,
wire connections may be twisted with electrical tape,
antenna should have a bad connection such that it goes out in the middle of a good song requiring you to crawl out from under the car to smack radio twice...just in time to hear the song end.
If you find an OEM radio with the traveling bar display, make sure the bar is broken. When a station fades out, you have to blindly search for the next best. When you $#it some friend into helping pull a 200lb transmission (bench press style, no floor jack) the first thing they do is mess with the radio and you spend 10 minutes trying to find that station again.
No school like the old school!There was an estate sale today a few streets over from my place. I would never have known about it but my nephew, 610 miles away in NC emails me to get my ass over there, his buddy is in town to clean out his family's empty house. No public notice, just a quick one day sale to sell off junk while he's in town for the weekend. Just an open door to the porch with an estate sale sign written on cardboard. I spent $42.00 on stuff. Records, tapes, reel to reel, etc. He ended up giving me almost two car loads of free shit he needed gone ASAP. The best items I got were a pair of speakers. I researched them and find they are worth a good buck. I think they're keepers. Also bought an Akai reel to reel player and 12 record albums full of real early era 78's. He also threw in several hundred classical CD's and a stack of DVD movies. Also 60 framed advertisements. I had a real good day.
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He made $42.00. I'll make over 2 grand. Everyone's happy.No school like the old school!
Thanks for reminding me about my garage/man cave. I have some audio equipment that might go well there. Would make messing around in the garage more fun. I tossed lots of audio stuff in our move, but have some pieces left. Along with my beer fridge, working out there could be fun. But, yeah, go low end unless you’ve already got nice stuff you aren’t using. And, a boom box might work fine. Hate that I threw away a nice one before the move.I'm looking for a stereo system for my garage, a receiver and a couple of speakers. Any help will be appreciative.
Thanks,
Joe
Yep, I DO need a DAC, as well as some speaker work. The crossovers are getting noisy.Yea, my garage system is a little more elaborate.
Infinity Quantum 2 speakers, Adcom 565 Pre-amp, Adcom 555 Amp, and my computer.
There are some really nice Bluetooth speakers with amazing sound and long battery life that you could use your cell or computer to play anything from internet/HD Radio/any of the streaming services.
I've had a pair of really nice Ultimate Ears that are far from top of the line and still sound incredible. I bought them several years ago..maybe 2018 for about $200 for the pair.
You can put them anywhere...