Hi all, I recently startetd upcycling beautiful 70's hifi components making them suitable for today's daily use.
I internally upgraded an AKAI-AA-1020 receiver with an Arylic Up2stream Mini Streamer (which includes WLAN, Bluetooth and DSP). An additional Arylic DAC board improves the sound quality of the streamer. A Mean Well PS-05-5 power supply powers the streamer and is internally wired to turn on and off with the AKAI. The streamer is internally connected to the AUX connector on the AKAI. The AKAI is now a streaming, WLAN, DSP, and bluetooth capable receiver, making it a complete, stylish hifi system. For example it can be used with Spotify and many other streaming services out of the box.
I am thrilled with the sound I get out of the AKAI with the Arylic Streamer using two old Phonar Laser 200 speakers 🙂. The improvement of the sound by the additional DAC board is small but fine. The highlight and crucial for me is the integrated DSP. I took measurements with Room EQ Wizard and a UMIK-1 microphone and then made a few corrections via EQ in the ACPWorkbench softare from Arylic. This brings a significant improvement in sound quality. In the current situation I could tame too much highs from the speaker and some exaggerated bass frequency areas which are rather room and positioning than speaker problems.
I did some other projects which are a little more radical in the sense that I took old and defect vitage Hifi components to not add but to replace their functionality. I rebuilt a Kenwood KX-400 tape deck and a Fisher FM-7700 tuner into standalone Hifi systems by integrating a bluetooth capable amplifier with respective power supply. If I find the time, I will also do a post here.
Components used in this project:
Streamer: Arylic Up2stream Mini
Arylic DAC Board
Mean Well PS-05-5 power supply
This is my first post here. Are such projects interesting to share? Is the level of detail adequate?
Besides some more stuff already done, I also have some upcoming projects with some nice gear from Kenwood, Luxman, Nikko, AKAI, Technics 😊
P.S.: I am living in Hamburg, Germany, Feel free to contact me when such upcycling projects are interesting and when you would like to take a closer look and listen.
I internally upgraded an AKAI-AA-1020 receiver with an Arylic Up2stream Mini Streamer (which includes WLAN, Bluetooth and DSP). An additional Arylic DAC board improves the sound quality of the streamer. A Mean Well PS-05-5 power supply powers the streamer and is internally wired to turn on and off with the AKAI. The streamer is internally connected to the AUX connector on the AKAI. The AKAI is now a streaming, WLAN, DSP, and bluetooth capable receiver, making it a complete, stylish hifi system. For example it can be used with Spotify and many other streaming services out of the box.
I am thrilled with the sound I get out of the AKAI with the Arylic Streamer using two old Phonar Laser 200 speakers 🙂. The improvement of the sound by the additional DAC board is small but fine. The highlight and crucial for me is the integrated DSP. I took measurements with Room EQ Wizard and a UMIK-1 microphone and then made a few corrections via EQ in the ACPWorkbench softare from Arylic. This brings a significant improvement in sound quality. In the current situation I could tame too much highs from the speaker and some exaggerated bass frequency areas which are rather room and positioning than speaker problems.
I did some other projects which are a little more radical in the sense that I took old and defect vitage Hifi components to not add but to replace their functionality. I rebuilt a Kenwood KX-400 tape deck and a Fisher FM-7700 tuner into standalone Hifi systems by integrating a bluetooth capable amplifier with respective power supply. If I find the time, I will also do a post here.
Components used in this project:
Streamer: Arylic Up2stream Mini
Arylic DAC Board
Mean Well PS-05-5 power supply
This is my first post here. Are such projects interesting to share? Is the level of detail adequate?
Besides some more stuff already done, I also have some upcoming projects with some nice gear from Kenwood, Luxman, Nikko, AKAI, Technics 😊
P.S.: I am living in Hamburg, Germany, Feel free to contact me when such upcycling projects are interesting and when you would like to take a closer look and listen.
For those of you interested in details of the components used in this project:
Streamer: Arylic Up2stream Mini
Arylic DAC Board
Mean Well PS-05-5 power supply
Streamer: Arylic Up2stream Mini
Arylic DAC Board
Mean Well PS-05-5 power supply
I've seen the Arylic's and have thought about doing this exact mod for a Realistic receiver of mine. Have you streamed using a device capable of Bluetooth HD Codec or Sony LDAC yet? It truly is like night and day, going from compressed standard BT audio codec to one of these. Definitely never going back to Standard Codec.