My Slowly Accruing Vintage Yamaha Stack
1986 DSP-1
1989 EQ-330
1993 RX-V870
Just about two years perusing and picking up vintage Yamaha in my local area. Not a lot of opportunity in my area unfortunately to score a glistening diamond but am happy to have found some history.
On the lookout for a tape deck and a cd player that match the relative quality of my already owned units. Any recommendations?
What kind of speakers do you guys like power with something similar to the era?
I use an old pair of (don’t judge haters, I got them for free) Bose 901 series V for this setup in particular. I have a full home studio recording system as well as a Dolby Atmos Home Theater Surround sound and these three systems are seamlessly integrated for unlimited experimenting which I find a lot of fun albeit was hard to setup Pro-Audio recording and gear to work as best possible with consumer level gear from both modern and vintage eras and then the damn Bose 901’s EQ box being the worlds biggest inconvenience to incorporate in a modern digital/analog complex setup that can support true Dolby atmos, live playback and recording of instruments and also a dedicated vintage stereo that can be switched in/out and correctly play the placed channels for the Dolby Atmos signal. Probably 2 years worth of heavy study.
Thats what I call a run-on sentence…
I’ll use this setup just for the Bose as I have other mains but what started this was being super curious what the 901’s would sound like if a truly placed modern digital atmos surround source was played through them with a full home theater setup. Honestly it’s a very very unique experience and is suuuper wide. This Yamaha being used as a power amp for them receiving the atmos front L/R and then using that to create a tape loop to incorporate the Bose Eq box is what i basically did. Works great for them and the active EQ they require to sound less than shit. I can’t so far deny it is a lot of fun. very full and enjoyable sound despite the 901’s controversial shortcomings.