Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

[yaga]

Revamping my audio, & was wondering what you folks had set-up. Basically fishing for ideas & the like.

I just have some Hi-Fi speakers hooked up to a Yamaha receiver & an extra deck hooked up to it (an older Numark) via a small pre-amp ( No sub-woofer yet! ) . Also, i don't know much about receivers but was looking at some vintage Marantz (from the 70's) on ebay & have heard a whole lot about them. What other brands are good & dependable? This time around i'm thinking of building my own speakers (brother's a carpenter & could get me some quality wood & stain).

[evil madmen]

Other than my technics, and mackie d2, I have a realllly old pioneer amp with some wharfdale raw wire speakers, and they've worked pretty well for me for a year now, but are much past their primes. Since im taking a loudspeaker design class Im gonna try to build a new setup with a sub, piss off my neighbors more

[mohan]

A single Technics 1210 with an old stanton 500 (gonna be upgraded) through a mediocre Sony amp into Mission 70 mk2's
does the job.

[AxeD]

Marantz is great, those things last 50 years.

[Pada]

Two Technics 1210 mk2s
Formula Sound FSM400
Alesis M1 active Mk2s


want some hi fi speakers though!

[noam]

stanton str8-60's (LOL) into a Citronic Mix Station (LOLOL) into a Marantz PM 44 SE AMP feeding a pair of Linn Helix speakers

once i have technics i'll be laughing

as it is the amount of feedback i get from a) havin my speakers too close to my decks and b) through my decks being a direct drive motor away from being fisher price turntables means i have yet to get the best out of my amp/speakers.

[joeroxor]

2 needles made of cat whiskers and duct tape on a ceramic flower plate. It gets the job done.

[apmje]

Can anyone recommend me some good active speakers for my set up? Looking to get the pair for under £200 but will stretch to £250 if they are definitely worth it!

Thanks alot guys.

EDIT: Mixing dubstep obviously.

EDIT2: Looking at the M-Audio BX5a with some stands? Not sure if they definitely used for monitoring but people say they have a really good bass...which is obviously what I am after.

[hayze99]

EDIT
Technic MkII 1210 x 2
Rokit KRK RP5 x 2
Serato SL1
Pioneer DJM400
Shure M44-7 x 2
MPD32 hooked up to serato

[DRTY]

Technics, Alesis Amp, B&W Speakers

[badger]

Technic MkII 1210 x 2
Rokit KRK RP5 x 2
Serato SL1

Simple as

so simple that you didn't even bother with a mixer?

mines 2 x technics, ecler nuo3 mixer, a barely used serato box and alesis m1 active monitors

[Jak The lad]

Technic 1200x2
Behringer djx700
Alesis M1 active monitors
M Audio Connectiv
M Audio Torq

[amidoinitrite]

2 Stanton T.80s
Xone 22 (innofader pro coming soon)
Samson Resolv A6's + iKey M-10S
B-52 Matrix 2000

[murky21]

2 x Gemini PDT6000 (before you throw up, they were best decks gemini did and have some decent features)
1 x Allen+Heath xone:32
2 x Ortofon Scratch Carts
1 x Seinny HD25's
1 x Tag McLaren Integrated Amp
1 x Tag McLaren matching Power Amp
2 x B&W 603 S1 Loudspeakers

[jameshk]

2 x Stantion Str8-60's (Beaten up, pretty shit)
1 x Gemini PS-646 (Even worse!)
1 x Cambridge Audio A100
2 x Very old and very well build sony monitors

Trying to gather money for 1210's though.

[gwa]

1x 1200 MK5
1x 1200 MK2
1x A&H X:42
2x Ortofon Nightclub IIs
1x Traktor Scratch Pro
1x Traktor X1
1X Sennheiser HD25s
2x Eltax floorstanders (can't remember the model number, but they cost quite a lot)
1x Cambridge Audio A5

pew pew pew pew

[brasco]

1210's and some vestax mixer (forget which one) that i've had for 2 months and has already broken

[slanguage]

hey fellas can you also help me with a set up

i'm literally starting from the ground up...


i'm thinking of getting


2x1210's
serato SL4


but i don't know what mixer to get...i got told xone is the best way to go...is this true? and do you all think that's a good set up so far?

[sonar]

technics 1200's (>1210's)
some crappy behringer mixer
Rotel 930AX amp - built like a tank.
Mordaunt Short 902i speakers
mordaunt short 309i sub.

Sounds goood, i'm away from home for the last few months and it's killing me listening to everything through laptop speakers.

[AxeD]

2x Reloop RP 200 MK3 (Ortofon Concorde needles)
1x Reloop RMX 30
Set of Creative speakers/subwoofer ( )
Traktor/audio 8 dj
Laptop

And I still can't get it to work, I'm looking for the problem. Getting the audio 8 dj to a shop for a check-up soon.