Garage Stereo Systems

[wrigh003]

Wow- isn't that too much power for such a small area? I understand the use in a big huge theater, but will a cabinet of that size sound good at all inside a room of a completely different size/voume/etc?

Neat project reusing old stuff, though.

 

[M5 LiTE]

I saw AJ5's post and bought one of those systems for my garage. WOW this thang rocks.

The way I see it, If you spend a lot of time in the garage then it's worth the extra few bucks, if I find myself too busy for the garage, then this system is versatile.

I had it in the yard for my nieces quincenieta and I even had it at my store for a little grass roots sale last week. I blasted christmas music on it. Went off without a hitch both times.
Check it out for yourselves
http://pjimmyaudio.weebly.com

What the !??!?!
That can be reproduced for $300 with stuff found all day on CL. Build the cabinet or build it into the walls. That's the nuttiest pricing. Forget the tiny monitor too.

 

[JohnMcD348]

I've got an Aiwa system I carried around with me for years while I was in the Navy. Cd, tape, stereo that's been sitting in my closet ever since I moved into the new house. I put it out there and plugged it in to try it out. So far, I have a serious noise issue. I plan on moving it to the outside wall and see if I can get better reception. Funny though, my portable shortwave radios don't seem to have as much interference on them. I guess I just need to figure out a better antenna system.

 

[hobie1dog]

Wow- isn't that too much power for such a small area? I understand the use in a big huge theater, but will a cabinet of that size sound good at all inside a room of a completely different size/voume/etc?

Neat project reusing old stuff, though.

OH...YEAH.... Can you say, " room pressurization "?

This will give chest slamming, drummer in the room with you kind of mid-bass. The dynamics is what gives music life...that's why Blose products sound so sterile and lifeless, really small drivers moving very small amounts of air with zero percussive effects that are found in live music.

 

[hobie1dog]

Got the bass speaker in place, so I thought I'd update the thread.

 

[Mmaxed]

OH...YEAH.... Can you say, " room pressurization "?

This will give chest slamming, drummer in the room with you kind of mid-bass. The dynamics is what gives music life...that's why Blose products sound so sterile and lifeless, really small drivers moving very small amounts of air with zero percussive effects that are found in live music.

Over kill!!!! I LOVE IT!

 

[brent_malibu]

Tunes in the garage is a must have...

 

[hobie1dog]

Watch that Mountain Dew now....did you see the Discovery Channel show they did on Appalachia? All their excessive tooth decay comes from that one drink.

 

[sledzz]

Remodeling my shop. Here's my sound and cpu setup. I have had my vintage Pioneer since I bought it in the Navy back in 1979. Two Bose and two Polk's rock the shop!

 

[dipper]

I've got an old Sony 5.1 tuner i've had for 12 years, a 5 disc carousel I picked up off Ebay for 5 bux a few years back. A sirius starmate replay connected into it with the satellite antenna mounted on a custom roof bracket. All the speaker wiring and antenna wiring was hidden in the walls before I drywalled the shop. I picked up a set of cirwin vega 10" cabinet speakers. I've got it all installed on a shelf. I've got another pair of bookshelf speakers in the upper corners of the garage too.

 

[dezigninmotion]

Hobie1dog; that is a great setup! I love it!

Here is mine so far. More to be added:

This is the cabinet that has the Receiver, DVD player, video selector, amp and speaker selector. This is also for my outdoor movie setup.

Shot of the screen out side of the garage:

 

[Costner]

What the !??!?!
That can be reproduced for $300 with stuff found all day on CL. Build the cabinet or build it into the walls. That's the nuttiest pricing. Forget the tiny monitor too.

I agree - not only is that a horrible design which could easily be reproduced for 80% less money, but the guy actually created shill accounts just to push his overpriced car audio setup and tout it as being "high end".

That "Pjimmy" **** is the biggest joke I've seen. I've got an old set of Bose 201s (I bought them long before I knew what quality speakers were supposed to sound like) and I have an old Sony Receiver and CD changer. I can promise you that system sounds way better than that pjimmy setup. I could go out and buy a 46" Samsung LCD TV for the garage and still have way less invested than one of their setups.

Are people really naive enough to buy that sort of garbage? If so, I'm in the wrong business.

 

[autoxbrian]

Should be in good shape for my garage system here in a couple weeks. Using PA monitors, power amp, 20 channel mixer, etc. I am a bassist, and play guitar some as well, so it will be fun to plug that in through the garage PA system too. Will post pictures and perhaps revive this thread!!

 

[Venumb]

Here's the system I'm putting together in my garage...

I posted a thread here asking questions on setup if anyone's interested.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48427

 

[tcianci]

It's great to see so many guys using their old home audio stuff, it's not state of the art anymore but it was the cats PJ's in the day. I think it kinda goes with vintage tools and other equipment. I have limited space in the garage here bit I found a great H/K computer speaker system with a nice sub for 20 bucks at a yard sale. The little guys sit on the desk here, the amplified sub is under the desk, it's all hooked to the computer. I can play CD's or get streaming audio online from just about any radio station (no RFI from the fuorescents) or play any music files I have on the PC. Cheap, powerful, small and versitile.

 

[Boyd Who]

All I have in my little garage is a small ghetto blaster, but it's good enough for now. When I finally get my large shop built I'll probably set up a better system.

 

[Schrodingers Cat]

20" LCD HDTV wall mntd on an arm w/built in DVD player

and a small table radio, with great sound.. Tivoli

 

[krooser]

I dug a am/fm/8-track/cassette/truntable out of my neighbors trash a few weeks ago and set it on a shelf.... got the stereo speakers, too!!!!

 

[TireTracks]

we have a cheep little boombox sitting on the bench. going to move an old stereo in there tommrow.

 

[BetterDays]

Old receiver from 1996 or so.
two, 8" shelf speakers in the rafters.
12" sub under the corner bench (powered by the "B" channel)
Surround sound speakers on the back wall. I normally put the Stereo in simulated surround and just use these speakers since I don't need the 8's and sub all the time.

I also use the old center channel as the other "B" channel to put in the window when I am working outside.

 

[commonut]

An old dash and crashpad mounted on the wall, wired so guages light up. Period looking radio in the dash and some old drive-in theatre speakers. Amp and connecters for the i-pod are hidden. Want my shed to fit in with what I play with in there.

 

[scbird94]

Seriously? is this a joke? who would buy this thing? Do you realize what kind of setup you could buy for the $4k "deluxe package"?????? Talk about a profit margin... this guy making these things is probobly laughing his *** off saying SUCKER when somebody buys this ****

 

[adelricbilly]

Get a 7.1 receiver with zone 2. so you can run 5.1 in your house and a 2 speaker setup in your garage. I use just an old awia I had laying around, if it dies I'm not out much. I got a cable to hook my zune to the aux in so I can listen to podcasts and my music.

 

[cowboyjosh]

Seriously? is this a joke? who would buy this thing? Do you realize what kind of setup you could buy for the $4k "deluxe package"?????? Talk about a profit margin... this guy making these things is probobly laughing his *** off saying SUCKER when somebody buys this ****

Seriously; that is the damndest thing I have ever seen.

 

[TheGrooveking]

I need a bigger garage for these bad boys

Are those Infinity Reference Standards Man, there is a lot of money ******* in that system. Obviously you take sound reproduction/music/audiophile as a very, very serious hobby.

TheGrooveking

 

[TheGrooveking]

so I found a set of the Klipschorn speakers to go listen to. There was the dynamic impact I'd been missing all those years, so I then go to the Klipsch forums and found out that there had been a successor to the Khorn called the Jubilee.

I too love Klipsch, have 5 pairs myself, It all started with the Heresy's back in college.

TheGrooveking

 

[914forme]

Simple system of my a Sony Book Shelf system and two speakers. I hook it up to my iPhone and use Pandora to stream a music feed to it. Get what I want to listen to all day, with out interruptions and don't have to build a mix that gets old with time. It fits on half a shelf 12" deep. I have room to the right for a variable DC power supply I use to test parts with, power circuits etc.....

Oh it has an AM/FM tuner and a CD player I rarely use any of them.

 

[Born_Annoyed]

Real simple setup from old components.
Optimus "Radio Shack" Receiver 100W per channel
JVC Cd Palyer
ADC EQ 10 Channel
2 JVC speakers from an old book shelf unit
Sirius Stratus 6

 

[Jack Olsen]

Hand-me-down CD changer from the house that we realized we never used. Cheap amp that's Energy Star compliant so that I don't mind leaving it switched on for long stretches.

And an iPod.

I can understand if there's a game or a race you want to follow, but escaping the honk and clatter of the TV is one of the reasons I go out to the garage.

 

[Fudge0514]

I have a $15 boombox. Works just fine.

Same here. Works great!

 

[alkemyst]

Old school Nikko 1019. Using it to power Insignia NS-B2111 (the $50 bang for bucks from a few years back I was using for surround duty in my apartment).

Sounds good and stays out of the way. Gives a vintage feel.

I switched out the Insignias for Klipsch RS-25's. I am running Quartets and an Academy for the front stage. Old Klipsch speakers are really sleepers.

 

[danski0224]

I have a Sansui 771 receiver (was dad's), a MCS tuner (JC Penney- closeout from long ago) and a set of small Sony speakers with square drivers.

The speakers have a small amp and a 3.5mm input, or they can be used like plain old speakers. I used them in Desert Storm.

 

[hoopty388]

I have posted this elsewhere but here it is again

It is wood/ fiberglass and runs off of a pc supply ( and to answer the question earlier, you can run a small amp off of it because it has 2- 12v lines, but wouldn't recomend anything huge.) It can run self contained or has outfeed to run to my stack system which pushes a set of 15's and 3 sets of 12's. On a day to day basis I just use the radio but if we have a party or I want to annoy the neighbors, I turn on the rest

 

[TheGrooveking]

One of the coolest car stereo's I've ever seen is a friend of mine who is a garbage man. Everytime he finds a speaker someone has thrown out he takes the speakers(drivers, i.e. woofers, midrange, tweeters, etc..) and sticks them to the inside of his cab. Since the cab is all steel the magnets hold them to the cab and he wires them in. Last count he had over 36 drivers of various types all over inside his cab. The power amp is from a system someone was throwing out. That now makes me wonder what kind of system he has in his house or garage.

TheGrooveking

 

[birdman1]

Will cut down an old console TV/radio/and 8 track unit that I bought in early 80's to go in the new shop I am working on. Have used low cost receivers and speakers in 4 corners in old shop. "GOT TO HAVE YOUR TUNES WHEN YOU ARE WORKING"--secret to a good mariage is having a good shop to retreat into when the kitchen gets too hot.

 

[Mr. Jean]

AM/FM plus tape deck for oldies tunes.

 

[Rickster]

Rescued a sound system my brother was throwing out from his basment.

 

[senlow]

Here is one of my speakers Altec "Voice of the Theater".

Those are some cool vintage speakers. I am currently using a pair of JBL L100s in my garage.

 

[d33pt]

i use an old but decent altec lansing set of computer speakers from the 90's, running to my laptop streaming mp3's thru wifi.

 

[kbs2244]

I just updated to the digital age.

I had been useing a 2 tape dorm room style system.
I was in a pawn shop and saw a 300 disk Sony CD deck for $50.00
Since it is impossible to find tapes anymore, I went for it.
It has about 15 CDs in it now.
Random play works real good.

Does anybody know a cheap and easy way to burn CDs from tapes?
I tried one of the free programs but got real bad hiss that I couldn't get rid of.
DAK has a $70.00 kit.
Has anybody tried it?
I have something like 200 tapes to convert.