It's amazing how big this was back in the 70's, every mall had a stereo store every city had tons of them, go to any place that sold magazines and there was a whole row of hifi magazines.And this stuff wasn't cheap, a top-of-the-line pioneer receiver was like $1000, $4k by today's money.

Oh that 70's Pioneer....oh boy. I was 15 years old when I bought my first stereo, all Pioneer in 1973, TT with s shaped arm - int. amp - 2 way 8" speakers. In that year no one I knew had an "audiophile" system, even though mine was low end it sounded incredible, been hooked ever since. I wished for 50 years now that the old Pioneer would return to us with those aluminum fronts, silky smooth knobs and perfect toggles. Just looking at yours reminded me of my old days with Pioneer and the rock solid dependability I enjoyed too. I later added synthesized 4 channel, built my own Electro Voice 3 way speakers with adjustable crossovers 15" woofer/horn tweeter and midrange and bass reflex cabinet design, added a more powerful amp, a tuner, a Pioneer 8 track (remember those) a Teak Reel, and a Pioneer cassette.

I purchased the Pioneer SX-950 when i was in the Navy. It came out in July 1977.

Paul, that is some amazing equipment and looks beautiful. Love the set up. Love the custom racks. Love the reel to reel and tubes.

The late 70's was the golden age of audio equipment. Pioneer was at its peak.

This setup legitimately made my day. The look is aces, I love both the main rack and the custom 2u.

Wonderful set-up. You have a throw-back, "Vintage" system that represents a magnificent era in music with beautiful equipment. Great share!

Love pioneer stuff

Fantastic setup - love the chrome racks and butcher block tops - great idea!!

Nice stuff 👍👍👍

I love the room tours. Very nice set ups. I also have Zu speakers in my new set up and a Marantz 2275 with JBL speakers for my vintage set up.

Really dope set up. Looks like a great spot to post up, relax, and spin wax.

I just bumped onto this video of your (never saw any of your videos before) and I have to say your equipment looks Fantastic, great stuff!!! Cheers, David.

Very nice setup, man!!! Looks very impressive, I bet sounds even better!! Loved the idea of using shelfs/butcher block as a rack. Cheers from Austin 😁

Great work on the video man. Awesome setup!

Nice system....I love system tours and your is no exception. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for the tour. I absolutely love your stereo system. 😊

Awesome system, love the speakers, love the set up

Very nice couple of rigs you got there, love the tables! The receiver and tube amp are beautiful. Zu! Fire.

I was born in 1978. I love that receiver. Pioneer made some cool stuff

I’m able vintage, a old Marantz 2325, pair of K-Horns, Klipsch up front and a pair of Klipsch Belle’s in Back running on B-channel. I do have a M&K powered sub up front on the k- Horns. Together they cover a lot of music ! Unbeatable sometimes, the better the sources the better the sounds ! I can push live volume levels at a little bit past quarter volume. It still will put goose bumps on my arms ! Yep I’ve been listening to this combination for over 30 years. Guess I am spoiled ! You could spend yourself into the poor house trying to get more music than I’m listening to ! I am a Klipsch Fan and always will be, nobody produces a better sound than Klipsch does , especially at their prices ! Keep on Rocking ! I’m old and will be with this system until I die. I would like to have my old Marantz re-fresher it needs it even though it still looks Great in it’s walnut case. My speakers and stereo are all in Walnut ! They are furniture looking more than stereo looking. Beautiful together. I’m old like the stereo. I feel Blessed to have what I have ! Celebrate Life ! 🇺🇸🎉😎

You have a lovely setup, you should be very proud of your system!

Nice tour. I have a late '70s Pioneer rig since new. SX-780, PL-530, CTF 650, HPM-100s. All still going strong. I imagine your rig also will serve as a heater for your place! Cheers!

Nice room tour man, cheers from New York.

Wonderful gears. Congratulatios for own & keep them in that mint conditions. 👌

Beautiful systems you have there. I also have an SX-950. It is all the receiver I will ever need. Just love it. ❤ I also have the Pioneer PL-518 turntable. Mine is fitted with a Shure V15 Type IV cartridge. Love it as well.

I've been considering a Schiit Mani for a while, this just convinced me to buy it, cheers.

WOW!!! Super nice...got to sound amazing!!!

I just found you channel because of this video and I have to say that I loved it!!! You have beautiful vintage systems and I am a vintage audio fan myself. Take care. Karl

You have a beautiful setup! There is certainly nothing wrong with having more than one system set up in your home. Sometimes that is the only way to properly enjoy rare formats. I have four complete systems set up with three turntables. I have three systems in one small bedroom which is being used as a music room! It took some planning but it all fits nicely. I have a dedicated system which I use for DBX Disc records (which also sounds great with regular records), one system for my SACD Multichannel discs and another for regular records and CDs. The DBX system requires a Tape Monitor feature so I am using a Pioneer SX 939 as a preamp with a Parasound amp powering Polk Audio towers. All three of my turntables are Technics direct drive. One is a fully manual SL1200 MK2 in black and the other two are linear tracking and fully automatic. I have a fully immersive video setup in another room which I also use for records, Blu ray Audio and DVD Audio. I love the wood look on your turntables! You have an impressive looking system which I bet sounds amazing! Those of us who love to tinker with different equipment and sound have to be a little creative in the spaces we have! I always enjoy seeing what others have come up with!

Great set up Mr I Love it 👍

This video inspired me to finally look up wtf a preamp actually is.

That is a very nice apartment,and great setup

Bro that is one of the most beautiful setups I’ve ever seen!! Well done. I need those racks !

Love it!!! Thanks for sharing.

Nice system! Great video, thanks!

Great system!

You have a nice system. It's one that's not just for show, you drive it. I had a nice system stolen from me in 86. I had bought new a complete MCS series A from JC Penney in 81. The head, turntable an cassette deck. I had also added a Technics equalizer. The speakers were MCS series A honeycomb linear disk phase with 12" subs. That brought tears to my eyes when my house was broken into

So many cool statements. Awesome.

Really nice equipment you have, One hell of a system👍🏾

I love it!

Fantastic set up, the amp is a work of art

Enjoyed this! I subscribed. Thanks for the great production values

Beautiful setup ......Merry Christmas :-)

Many years ago I worked in a hifi wholesale company in Belfast, I slowly but surely collected a system which was paid off out of my wages every week. my first purchase was a garrard 401 with an sme 3009 arm shure v15 type 3, kef chorale speakers, later replaced with celestion dittons. akai amp, (can't remember model number) and the wonderful akai gx635d reel to reel which I still have (an aside, I paid £400 not dollars then today that equates to over £4000. added atechnics rs1500 rtr, and a teac cassette deck I have a rotel cd player but nothing beats vinyl to my old ears. The place was bombed by the IRA in 1972. two firemen were blown to pieces.

Just beautiful ......period !

Tha ks for showing us your nusic systems.

LOVE your system vintage gear and configuration.

It’s been awhile since I’ve enjoyed anything on you tube as much as your vintage system tour, great job!!! Kinda scary how much of our two old systems are alike!!! For example the one bedroom apt. With two complete systems, same here but with three receivers starting with the first system I ever bought it consists of the rec. :PioneerSX-1080 , RT-707 , for cassette: Pioneer CTF-700 & sitting on top of a 2” thick slab of polished granite a PL-560, with a newly installed Black Grado cart!!! This is all pushing 120w through two early 80’s Klipsch Cornwalls & a pair of Klipsch ref. Towers & matching 12” sub, for the necessary cyber noise I recently added a Yamaha TSR-7810, almost all of my old stuff was purchased on one really fine (& fun) day in 1978..... it ain’t goin anywhere! Thanks & keep it up!! D-racer......

Great audio equipment, love the reel to reel. I too am compromised by small living space(small house), but make the best of it. I have the main stereo in the living room, McIntosh amp, B&W speakers, Denon TT. Another stereo in the second bedroom, Marantz amp, B&W bookshelf speakers, NAD CD player no TT yet I am happy with both stereos! Keep collecting keep diggin’!

Really...enjoyrd your video! I like how you have two totally "different systems", also. I have a Pioneer PL570(the *older* version, of course) but like the *base* of your PL 518 much better! Great set-up!

Understand when you say " I don't watch too much TV" - yes you can't move eyes away from those gears at all! 😂

Thanks for the tour! I'm reminded of a comedy routine I heard decades ago. A female comic was describing the kind of men she made a point of avoiding. One was "the guy with a $25,000 stereo system and a $300 apartment" -- or something to that effect. That said I should confess to having the same disease. I don't even want to tell you how many systems I have.

Very nice setup👍👍🎶🎶💪

The Pioneer amps are gorgeous looking and sounding. I had one before it blew out the power transformer and it had a sound through my Jensen speakers that I have not been able to duplicate to this day and that was back in the early 80's!

Of all the nice audio gear systems I've seen over the years.... ....this is one of them. :)

Only subbed because I fell in love with your wood meshed with stainless steel. (obviosly the equipment as well)

Fun tour. Nice rig 🎶

I don't get many views but love to show off my system, I really like to see other set up as well.

That 950 is sweet. I have the 650 and I know exactly what you mean when you spoke about the knobs. Love em!!

I have the Micro Seiki Solid 5Turntable (from 1974) w/Grado cart. Got it from my Godfather about 16 years ago and love it! Enjoyed your music room tour…

Nice apartment and stereo set up

Great systems you have there! I have the same Bob Latino ST-70. Phenomenal amplifier! I’ve had it for six years and it just seems to sound better and better with age. Running Gold lion KT 88’s currently.

Dude just stumbled onto your channel. You are not crazy. I have 2 total stereo system setups. My reference system built in my music room, and my "just for fun" system built in my dining room. (I have no need for "dining room" furniture). "Just for fun" system includes listening to my large collection of 45's. 😎

Beautiful set up !

Nice!! Love that Pioneer Amp and tapedeck

Fantastic set, cheers from Mexico City!!!!

"Really Love the Set up" The Pioneer Big Receiver and Reel to Reel. And love to here a bit swearing thrown in.👌🎅.Grant.

I used to have a Pioneer SX535 I loved that receiver.

You hi-fi equipment as well as the way you don your hat looks pure coolness.

Nice system!!!

hello great systems i have a dyna 70 and dyna a 25 great old stuff much thanks

I have that exact turntable the micro seiki solid 5, best turntable I’ve ever owned, absolutely beautiful !

Beautiful ! Lucky you...

Nice setup! New subscriber, looking forward to your videos and good luck on youtube!

lovely system! I'll have to get around to doing a video of my system at some stage. It's recently had a bit of an upgrade. Swapped out my old tube monoblocks which are quite unreliable with a Parasound A21 fed from a Moon 390 streamer / preamp / DAC into a pair of Martin Logan CLS11A's. Sub is an old REL Storm with a Systemdek 2X2 with the Roksan Artemiz Zi arm and a Ortofon 540 MM cartridge which is getting swapped out for an MC. Tuner is a Magnum Dynalab FT101 and a half-track high speed Revox B77 and an old Akai HX-A3X cassette deck. Running Roon on an old IBM X3650 M3 which also is my Plex server. Been into audio for over 30 years. Hope everyone is safe during the lockdown. Best wishes from the UK. ETA - ust kill the plate supply to the tubes when there is no load or you can kill the output transformers, but I guess you knew this.

Just watched it, cool setups man, thanks for sharing 🎶😎✌🏼

Love your rig

Nice! The Zu's with this vintage gear are simply incredible!

Nice system!

I like your tour, nice setup! Reminds me of my room. I have the 518 but not the cool wood although I ve been wanting to strip it. All the way down to the Schitt...love your tubes! I have a lot of SL 1200’s just in case I need them. I know about the need for multiple tables, you don’t see that much. Thanks for the video I really enjoyed it.

Just great. Thank You for Video ! :)

Nice set up Bro!

My old Technics turntable died, and I didn't want to fool with resurrecting it (immediately) so I bought a new Audio-Tech direct drive and am very pleased with it. My Bose 201 speakers from the eighties were on their last legs, so I replaced them with a pair of Yamaha speakers. The old CD player kicked the bucket and finding a decent one for the right money is not easy. I settled for a device that plays CDs and multi-regional DVDs and reads MP3s off a thumb drive... for $40. The only thing I kept was the Mitsubishi AV amp. When I put it all together, I put on "Blow by Blow" by Jeff Beck and the sound astonished me. I hadn't heard vinyl for many years, and it moved me to tears.

Paul, You have a really great setup. I never had a reel to reel but they have always fascinated me. I don’t know how practical it would be for me at the present time but who knows.... I always like those Pioneer receivers from those years and they looked nice also. I get kind of paranoid and fear a component in my system may go bad but it looks like you have that covered!!!

The Austin affect in full effect.

Late to the party...Awesome rack(s) equipment and video! I have Schitt Mani 2 and a Pioneer 707 reel to reel!-- love them both. Looking forward to your next videos...💯😉

Sweet! I have the same Pioneer receiver and Marant cd player! But I have 3 systems in my house. Nice.

My first serious TT was a Pioneer "snakearm" like yours. Also had one of those 950's in the 90's, a friend found it in a dumpster in pristine condition, gave it to another friend.

I love your set up! And...we have about the same taste in gear too lol. I have Omen DW's, a Pioneer SX 850, a RT 707, a Furman, and a Schitt DAC. I'm pretty sure I watched your tour but I'm going to check out that link since you went through all that trouble to get it up in the top right corner! ;)

That’s a pretty sweet rig. I bought the VTA-120 kit from Bob but built and modified it with a different box and layout. I have vids showing some other amps I’ve built as well. Great stuff!

Nice video mr! I have the rt 707 and the pl 550! I need to get a rack like you have. Also have the ctf 1000 and the sg 9500 and powering it all with the sx 1280. I like how you explained everything in detail. I like your setup!

Very nice system!!

Great set up!

Finally got a chance to finish watching this. Awesome rig! I have 3 full stereo setups myself, which allows me to listen to records in multiple rooms. My main setup consists of the Pioneer SX-1980, Pioneer SG-9800 EQ, Rega P6, TT, a modified Pioneer PLX-1000 TT and the ZU DWs. I’m a massive Pioneer fan if you couldn’t tell. Ahaha! I need to do an updated gear tour video as it’s been more than 3 years since my last one.

Nice set up. Your Pioneer receiver is a beast. I bought a SX-780 back in the day ( yeah I'm an old geezer) and I regret selling it a few years ago. Those Zu speakers are beauts. The finish is stunning...great choice.

Outstanding room tour! Great looking components, especially the Dynaco VTA ST-70. I have the more powerful Dynaco VTA ST-120 because my vintage Celestion sealed-box speakers are low sensitivity (84dB/w/m) and need the extra juice to get them to sound their best. Thanks again.

Very nice reel-to-reel I had one I had a Pioneer 888 or something amp tuner EQ with it and I had the 707 reel-to-reel I got so upset after I got rid of that I went out and bought me that 909 pioneer reel-to-reel and now I also have teac 4 track 3440 and when I get them back from service I will we playing them with my Anthem 20 preamp and Anthem power amp 50 I don't know how to add pics or I would show you

Actually the sx950 was made from 76’-77’. Then in 78’-79’ they updated it as the sx980

Love the reel to reel mate