I really like it although the Onkyo is at my parents house so I cannot compare them. The Sony and Sansui sound great to me, I cannot really say which one sounds better. Some have said that the Sony has a tube-like sound, but I have never heard a tube based receiver so I cannot say.

Here is a better pic of it -

Thanks, I to remember getting my families Onkyo 2500 MK II and Onkyo TT. My parents no longer have the turntable, but the Onkyo is still running strong (I cleaned out like six inches of dust and cleaned the controls) last time I visited last year. Here it is -

It was at least five years ago, but the old pads were compressed if I remember, so I think this was an upgrade for me. The AKG guy suggested them as he had supposedly used them with this model himself at one time.

I think they are great, but you are right, I don't know anyone that has them. They are pretty huge with the dual drivers, I reached out to AKG and worked with a rep at one time to replace the pads with a newer velour (maybe the wrong term) pads. I have them connected to my Yamaha CR620 right now...

Anyone running the AKG Parabolics? I got these on FB marketplace many years ago - Here is a pic I took of them (my Sony STR V6 in the background) -

LOL. I might just leave their protector on then. This was my last DAP (2015 I believe) I ever bought, the Xduoo 3 had\has so many quirks ( don;t even get me started with the X2 I have and no longer use), even with rockbox. Mine kept erroring out and crashing but the tech in me would not give up...

Dumb question here, I have never taken off the screen protector film. If I took just that off and did not remove the screen, is the display brighter? My screen cover still has the original air bubbles and it is super annoying and dark of course when used in sunlight even on 16 (rockbox brightness).

Here is my $20 FB Sansui 771 I got last year. I reflowed the solder on the bulb section because it was intermittently going out. I also changed out the bulbs with warms LEDs, nothing gaudy. I did see how the incandescent bulbs were hot and had made marks on the inside plastic. I have this paired...

Well I have been using my TF 10's more now that I broke out my old Ipod 3rdGen Touch 64 GB (Wolfson Dac, sounds way better than my iphone 13 pro using the apple dac\headphone connector). Anyway, I have the Dark Lord cable that I got back in the day (the cheaper one with the angled plug), but the...

It does, it is really great. I also got a TOTL Sony 7065 recently but that thing needs a new driver board. The speakers above are super easy to drive and sound great with this receiver, kind of like a poor man's Altec lol.

Here is my $20 Sansui 771 from FB marketplace. It is a nice little receiver, although one bulb was going sometimes, not always staying lit. I talked to some guys on AK and they mentioned the lamp socket needing re-soldering. I had not soldered anything since working at Namco Cyberstation in the...

Here is one of my Yamaha S4115H, I have them paired to my Sansui 771.

I forgot to mention that I resolved this. It was one of my Yamaha receivers that was causing this. The Topping DAC is up and running.

I can try my surface book 2 later. Interestingly, it could be one of the more modern receivers, a Yamaha RX1130. I noticed when I went to use it after get the dac working, that it was not producing sound and the dac was acting up again. I did a reset of the receiver and the dac was working...