Revitalising you old hi fi(if you have one).

[saxonborg]

I’ve been listening to more music recently and I wondered if there was any device that could convert my old Technics hi fi system so it would be able to play digital music from a source like smart phone or tablet. I can see that there are lots of Bluetooth devices available with the usual huge price range.
Has anybody else done this and had good results and which unit did you buy.

 

[wildebus]

I’ve been listening to more music recently and I wondered if there was any device that could convert my old Technics hi fi system so it would be able to play digital music from a source like smart phone or tablet. I can see that there are lots of Bluetooth devices available with the usual huge price range.
Has anybody else done this and had good results and which unit did you buy.

What connections do you have on the back of the Hi-Fi?
Typically RCA/Phono, but might have SCART or HDMI if it was a Home Cinema type Hi-Fi.

Chances are you could use a headphone socket out to the Phonos so you are converting Digital to Analogue in the source.
Something that you could do (maybe considered, maybe not) is copy your music to CD keeping it as MP3 format. Most players still around and working can play digital music from CD.

 

[saxonborg]

All the connections are RCA/Phono, unfortunately when I purchased the hi fi kit I only bought the amplifier, tuner and cassette tape player.

 

[wildebus]

All the connections are RCA/Phono, unfortunately when I purchased the hi fi kit I only bought the amplifier, tuner and cassette tape player.

I am sure there are still CD Players out there with Phonos. In fact, what I would do if I were in your situation would be to buy a DVD player with Phono Leads (may be referred to as composite) and then you could play MP3s saved to a DVD disc as well as a CD, just connecting the Audio leads.
Benefit would be a CD stores 680MB of data and a DVD is, from memory, 4.7GB, so far more tracks. Only problem with the DVD choice might be if the player requires control/track selection from a screen rather than having a litle LED display.

Not a recommendation, just one that popped by when I searched for "DVD Phono" as an example - https://amzn.to/43UiuJ7

 

[Dorwyn]

I am sure there are still CD Players out there with Phonos. In fact, what I would do if I were in your situation would be to buy a DVD player with Phono Leads (may be referred to as composite) and then you could play MP3s saved to a DVD disc as well as a CD, just connecting the Audio leads.
Benefit would be a CD stores 680MB of data and a DVD is, from memory, 4.7GB, so far more tracks. Only problem with the DVD choice might be if the player requires control/track selection from a screen rather than having a litle LED display.

Not a recommendation, just one that popped by when I searched for "DVD Phono" as an example - https://amzn.to/43UiuJ7

I've done that, cheapo Bluetooth with remote, CD connected through phono, works a treat. You can change tracks but not volume. Brings new life to an old top of the range system.

 

[nabsim]

I still have my Techics micro system. I seem to recall seeing a unit that matched that would let you stream but I may be remembering wrongly. Have you had a look on the Techics site? Then again I suppose my kit could be knocking on 20 years old now. I went for the Amp, tuner, cd deck and cassette deck lol. With matching walnut stand of course

Actually I didn't go for it, Caz bought it for me, my kit was a mismatch of makes but had foundation shaking abilities

 

[nabsim]

I’ve been listening to more music recently and I wondered if there was any device that could convert my old Technics hi fi system so it would be able to play digital music from a source like smart phone or tablet. I can see that there are lots of Bluetooth devices available with the usual huge price range.
Has anybody else done this and had good results and which unit did you buy.

Have e a look here

Stream old Technics

 

[wildebus]

Have e a look here

Stream old Technics

I think this is doing stuff the other way round than is wanted?

Interesting topic though as I have what was what a really good quality Rotel Pre-Amp and Power-Amp which I used until I moved into Home Cinema with a Pioneer seperates setup.
The Rotel was better quality though and still fetches decent money on eBay. Need to check it out to list it up there.

 

[TimSands]

I have a musical fidelity system based around the x components. I have upgraded it in two ways. To stream music from my laptop or phone I got one of these https://ifi-audio.com/products/zen-air-blue/. I also got a Brennan B2 which is basically a hard drive player onto which I have copied my rather large collection of CDs, I play them through a Musical Fidelity DAC which has two inputs. With my CD player and turntable I have a choice of four sources. All sound great I have to say and via the ifi/dac combination I can listen to BBC sounds and spotify through my setup.