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I inherited a pair of speakers my dad bought in the early 80s. They still work well, though the amp died last year and I wasn't able to repair it.

SquishyPanda23 7y ago
You can get a number of small amps these days that will plug into the speakers and sound great. Many will also support Bluetooth so you can stream to your stereo.
- Thinkbiz 7y ago
  Do you have a link to these small in-speaker housing amps?
  - SquishyPanda23 7y ago
    I was referring to amps that don't house speakers but instead connect to speakers with traditional speaker wire. If you search for "stereo amplifier" on Amazon there are a bunch of them. Several companies make all-in-one bluetooth speakers that have amps built in, but they tend to be lower quality in my experience.
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- mark-r 7y ago
  Bluetooth is the biggest joke foisted on audio. Even at its best there is mandated compression, which means the highest quality signal will be mashed into a lowest common denominator piece of garbage.
  - Cougher 7y ago
    Not to mention all the basement "remixers" who use audacity or whatever to "improve" the sound before they stream it, or max the volume to the point of constant red-lining, nevermind downgrading it to mp3 instead of using a lossless format.
    - mark-r 7y ago
      The damage you do to your music is on you. I'm talking about damage inflicted automatically that you may not even be aware of.
      - Cougher 7y ago
        That's why I said, "not to mention". That means not specifically to what you were saying, but in addition to it. I think I was also clear about the fact that it's not what I was doing, but what other people were doing. This is simple stuff.
        mark-r 7y ago
        Sorry if I wasn't clear, what I meant is that messing with your sound files should make it obvious that you're changing the sound - there's no surprise. BT is different because the expectation is that it works just like a wire.
  - AshamedCaptain 7y ago
    By the same logic that there's mandated compression when you are forced to encode your stream as PCM. Bluetooth mandates compression, sure, but it's been repeatedly proven to be transparent at the bitrates used by even crappy hardware... Just Google for 'SBC codec transparent' if curious. Bluetooth's A2DP only real problem is the unspecified latency requirements.
  - SquishyPanda23 7y ago
    As I said in my post, the bluetooth is optional. It's just a stereo amp so it has inputs for line level and phono. Buletooth is convenient for ad-hoc playlists.

SquishyPanda23 7y ago

You can get a number of small amps these days that will plug into the speakers and sound great. Many will also support Bluetooth so you can stream to your stereo.

Thinkbiz 7y ago
Do you have a link to these small in-speaker housing amps?
- SquishyPanda23 7y ago
  I was referring to amps that don't house speakers but instead connect to speakers with traditional speaker wire. If you search for "stereo amplifier" on Amazon there are a bunch of them. Several companies make all-in-one bluetooth speakers that have amps built in, but they tend to be lower quality in my experience.
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mark-r 7y ago
Bluetooth is the biggest joke foisted on audio. Even at its best there is mandated compression, which means the highest quality signal will be mashed into a lowest common denominator piece of garbage.
- Cougher 7y ago
  Not to mention all the basement "remixers" who use audacity or whatever to "improve" the sound before they stream it, or max the volume to the point of constant red-lining, nevermind downgrading it to mp3 instead of using a lossless format.
  - mark-r 7y ago
    The damage you do to your music is on you. I'm talking about damage inflicted automatically that you may not even be aware of.
    - Cougher 7y ago
      That's why I said, "not to mention". That means not specifically to what you were saying, but in addition to it. I think I was also clear about the fact that it's not what I was doing, but what other people were doing. This is simple stuff.
      - mark-r 7y ago
        Sorry if I wasn't clear, what I meant is that messing with your sound files should make it obvious that you're changing the sound - there's no surprise. BT is different because the expectation is that it works just like a wire.
- AshamedCaptain 7y ago
  By the same logic that there's mandated compression when you are forced to encode your stream as PCM. Bluetooth mandates compression, sure, but it's been repeatedly proven to be transparent at the bitrates used by even crappy hardware... Just Google for 'SBC codec transparent' if curious. Bluetooth's A2DP only real problem is the unspecified latency requirements.
- SquishyPanda23 7y ago
  As I said in my post, the bluetooth is optional. It's just a stereo amp so it has inputs for line level and phono. Buletooth is convenient for ad-hoc playlists.