3 EASY Ways to TURN VINTAGE HIFI into MODERN HiFi!!

Thanks for sharing this video. I've been trying to figure out how to add a remote to a vintage receiver, primarily for TV (music is usually set it and forget it), and didn't even consider the Node. Cheers!

Any decent sub will have speaker level inputs, thus a sub out RCA jack is not necessary to add a sub. In fact, using the speaker level inputs is better because the sub receives the exact sound signature as the amp, rather than from the pre-amp or whatever upstream. The speaker wires in parallel to the sub do not take any power from the amp. Only the signal is sent to the sub's speaker level inputs.

This is dumb. Vintage gear isn't being "ditched"

Nice review and info on bringing vintage stereo to the future,myself and I’m sure many others would like to hear what they sound like.

What are the odds that this particular channel has the most pleasant vocal audio you can play on a system 😵‍💫 the dynamics

I love that you have explored vintage recievers. I like the vintage preampms and amps, I am running Adcom system, and a NAD CD player. I would to see you take a look at some vintage the separates.

I just picked up a 2215b for $250 (Canadian) in all original condition. It sounds great and functions as it should but id like to have it professionally inspected / cleaned. Beautiful little gems.

is that bluesound can be attached to any kind of vintage recever? sansui hk? and why its so expensive???? thanks

The Bluesound next to the Marantz gives it away. I have a Sansui 331. It is great. These 16 watts are different from modern watts.

Here's the misconceptions in a nutshell.... LABS EQUIPMENT . Yes recievers can sound good. Separates....especially Japan home based separates. Look first at the transformer design translate from catalogs from that Era. Next ....modern caps. Don't even power up a vi ntage unit at all . Inspect it visually inside and decide its condition. Ship it to a tech and have it modified and research known weak points and replace those parts . He's going to go through a couple sets of transistors trying to stabilize the units voltage stability. Shipping ....tricky and expensive , count on that . D class still cannot outperform a labs unit especially separates. I'm not listing units . Start with translating a original cost vs today's money ,get it and be prepared to be blown away . Labs , labs labs , pre or early 80,s sigma servo . Will eat something like a Hagel or any equivalent unit for breakfast. I guarantee it. Heritage laws are a slippery slope act accordingly.

I have a HDMI ARC audio extractor i have been sitting on for over a year, with supposed volume control with the TV remote using the analog out jacks (which will go to my old 2-channel preamplifier) i still have a HDMI ARC converter (from another company) hooked up, but it doesn't allow volume control... If i finally hook up the 2nd purchase that has volume control, and it doesn't work as intended, i may just have to fork out the money for this Bluesound Node, hopefully that gives me full HDMI ARC volume control with my Samsung smart TV and old audio gear...

I went with a Wiim Pro Plus.

Pardon the nooby question but how bad is it the just plug an RCA to jack cable for an iPod or iPhone to the AUX port of a “vintage” amp?

Does it make more sense to have a vintage amp and new speakers than the opposite?

Buying used vintage audio is like buying a 1970's car with 200,000 miles on it and hoping for the best.

Hello great to find some info about the vintage gear , just got a Marantz 2245 walnut cabinet the same unit that I used to have back in 1970's and is in mint condition love it again ,now I wonder if is possible to connect my TV sound bar speakers to my Marantz as rear speakers so I don't need to cross any wires to the back .

I found a 2216B (no plastic at all on the silver face, balance knob instead of slider) that needed thorough cleaning. It went from scratchy and barely able to tune in a station to clear as a bell operation, and great dynamics after reforming the capacitors. Not working well, the seller only asked $60 for it . . . WARNING: Old 40-50 year old receivers should have their DC Offset checked professionally, a very simple and quick service. If DC is pumping out of the speaker outputs, you can damage your speakers.

Anyone: Best way to hook up a sub though if no preamp outs?

Using a NAD DAC1 to stream music from the PC to my Marantz 4230. Now I would like to buy a better DAC but don't know how to stream the music from the PC in one room to the Marantz with a new DAC in another room. Do you have any solution?

With an AB Switch, such as the Monoprice MSV-2, one can use a vintage stereo receiver hooked up to the two front speakers, or switch to your 5.1 or 7.2 receiver and surround-sound setup with a press of a button.

Hi, I hope someone can help me out. I have an old Technics SU-X980D, an amp from around 1990. I also already have two Technics SB-F980 speakers that came with the amp, and everything is paired with tecnincs viniles disc reader, cd reader, radio and tape reader. Now, what I wanted to do is to repurpose this system that is just taking dust into my home theater. I am planning on buying 4 other speacker to do a 6.0 surround setup as this amp allows for it. From what I understood the amp is capable of 100W per challen, giving me plenty of power for whatever speacker I wanna use. The problem now is, how do I connect this amp to my laptop? On my laptop I have an heaphone jack, but it's not preferable for this thype of systems due to the 6.0 surround thing. I than have 3 thunderbolt ports, 3 usb type A 3.1 ports and hdmi 2.1. What external audio thing would I have to buy to make this work? Will I have to use optical cables or the phono aux port shown in the video? Would that support surround audio? Thanks for anyone replying.

If I find I do not have enough power for my speakers....Can I use the "tape inputs" on the 2016 to connect an external amp? and just use the 2016 as a preamp?

I got a vintage Technics SA-300 and it works and looks old school and beautiful! But it has a wooden box around it and it's old. Not too convinced it won't burn up if I use it constantly. I plan to make a metal case for it one day.

Use a 3 way speaker system. 😅

Can I do this with a 1990s Harmon Kardon avr5 it has a pre out it 45 to 50 watts per channel

I have a Maranzs 2230 that I bought back in 76 You will never get that quality again the components were expensive Craftsman ship the sound Can't be equalled to the junk they sell nowadays

The Bluenode is some amazing tech. To think I could get my Marantz 2230 to provide sound from for a movie I'm playing on my TK800M BenQ projector, that's so cool.

I love this channel and can appreciate the material presented. I wasn't even looking for this, but having bee n in a similar situation can appreciate the coverage and presentation. Keep it up.

Has anyone ever hooked up an old receiver with a modern preamp? I have a vintage Technics 818 receiver that was doubling as a door stop (it weighs 41lbs), and decided to get it fixed, if it wasn't extremely expensive to do so. Turns out, it wasn't too bad at $300.

So when I got the Technics back, instead of unplugging everything from my Bryston preamp-into the Technics, I simply ran a lead from the preamp out into the Technics AUX input, and wired the speakers to the Technics. I bypassed the Technics tone controls (it has a switch to do so on the front), put the volume at noon, and used the Bryston for the source. I wasn't real sure what this would sound like, but I can honestly say, I'm quite blown away how good it sounds. Sounds quite wonderful. Seems warmer and maybe a bit rolled off on the top end, which I don't mind at all. I find many recordings too hot on the top end. The midrange is maybe a little more pronounced.But it is very clear despite the slight top end roll off, has a lovely sound stage and can really kick some butt if you crank it up (the Technics is 110W RMS/channel). There's no noise or interference I can hear, which is probably due to the Bryston, as it is very quiet. Could be my old ears too. I tested listening to everything from Diana Krall to ACDC for about 3 hours at a decent volume and suffered no listening fatigue at all. That was unexpected too.

Before hand, I thought I might sell the Technics when I got it back repaired, but now, I'm not so sure I'll do that. Anyone else ever hook up an old receiver with a modern preamp? I see some doing the reverse, using the vintage preamp into a power amp, but not the way I did it. It works, at least in my case, very well.

I am in absolute love with our vintage 2230. I have it paired with a Fluance rt85 and a couple of lower end Klipsch towers (hoping for a speaker upgrade this year). The Marantz surprises us nearly every time we put on different vinyl. My wife and I both remember the Marantzes from our earlier years in the 70’s, so it was familiar and that’s why we built our system around a vintage piece (an SX 780 was also on the table, but the Marantz that found us REALLY found us - like “I know you are my new stewards, I can feel it, so please take me with you now - I want to see my new home…”). Newer components can make our heads spin a bit, so getting the best of the old and new in our system has us smiling from ear to ear. The Fluance is sublime.

Great video Andrew! May I suggest taking one more step with vintage unit, by using just the pre-amp section and new high current power amp options.

Just get a old amp thats rebild already im pakking up a nice 112 end a 1060 fore 500€ rebild 😆 wel noting is fore noting

Thanks for confirming that this setup works well in modernising a vintage stereo. I recently bought a NAD 320 BEE (waiting for shipment to arrive). Will be pairing it with C 521 BEE (CD player). Later in the year will complete the setup with Bluesound Node. Will compare the sound from the two DAC's (521 vs Node). I think the 521 will sound warmer, which in not necessarily a good thing as the 320 is said to warm sounding as well. Depending on the outcome of this setup, I might finally switch my B&W LCR60 with KEF LS50 Meta. Reason for going with the Meta is the looks (ie to please my wife). We think a white pair will work good in out living space. The 320 is sadly not supply with a remote control. A universal programmable should do the trick.

Personally, I like to upgrade my amps and speakers to Neutrik speakON connectors.
Modern speaker cables are so much more convenient than messing around with +/- wires, red/black banana plugs, and red/black binding posts.

Why would you want to make a vintage unit sound like new? I think my Sansui BA3000 sounds better than my two McIntosh MC301's it is much more punchy and has better bass

Vintage receivers like the Marantz & Sansui will never go down in value and technically can be repaired to outlast us.. Great video, I typically pair my vintage receivers with AirPort Express's which can be had for cheap + a wifi plug.. For under $60 you can have full streaming from ios / mac / windows + be able to power it on and off.. Therse a nice app for Windows that allows the airport express to streamed to from any app called TunerBlade.

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Hey! Is there a way to also use your turntable with the vintage amp and get remote controll?

Do you service your vintage receivers yourself? Basic cleaning....do you have a video on that?

I have a Yamaha R7 and Pioneer SX 3700 receivers I considered a music streamer but, most TV streaming devices can add music streaming apps. I hav a Tivo 4K soon to be Apple TV. I added the Prime music app. Purchased a Musou Digital Optical Coax to Analog RCA Audio Converter Adapter with Fiber Cable. Hooked cable to my TV Digital /Optical out to converter and RCA cables from converter to Aux input on receiver. Viola! Music streamed to vintage receiver. P.S. Samsung TV"s may need to be set to PCM output.

I brought my Marrantz 2238 into the modern era by not following my millenial son's advice to junk it!

This really can be the way to go. I just finished swapping out a late 2010's 7.1 setup with a Yamaha Aventage receiver (Atmos and all the latest stuff). The Node allowed me to utilize a recently serviced McIntosh MA6100 and Sonus Faber Concertino's (with original stands). I'm running the Node with a modern sub to fill out the lower range that the SF's lack. This setup is amazingly simple and competent. Like Andrew notes, I'm able to utilize all of my devices and have my LG C9 run all the HMDI's direct with the ARC controlling the volume out to the Node. I turn the Mac on and up to 75% volume and let the Node handle the rest. I don't miss a center channel and everything sounds great at all volumes. I highly recommend this path if you have some older quality equipment lying around. I was fortunate enough to find my vintage stuff at crazy cheap prices over the years and I'm confident that it would well over $3,500ish to replicate the quality of sound I'm able to get with this vintage gear. On top of all of that, the vintage stuff just looks so classy.

the marantz2238 is a nice rig... worked on a cpl

I've added bluetooth to vintage 40's-50's record consoles... 8-)

I use an HDMI switch/DAC (from amazon) to select between my audio & video sources for my TV. The analog audio signal from the HDMI switch goes in the Aux input of my Pioneer SX-720 receiver (35W p/c). So any source selected for the TV can also be played on the Pioneer (TV box, optical drive or Apple TV).
The Pioneer drives a pair of vintage Dynaco A25XL. I much prefer the simplicity of use and sound quality of this 2.0 setup than the insanely complex Denon 7.1 AVR I used to have!

Took my Marantz 1070 console in for repair and found out it just needed cleaned! Amazing. The repair shop suggested I buy a Dayton Audio Bluetooth receiver. I use this amp to power my pool speakers. Now have endless music to listen to and remote volume. It's great!