Back in the near mid 1980s I purchased a Home Stereo System of Yamaha Equipment. It was purchased with walnut veneering on the large, heavy speakers and an equipment stand with a matching lift up top for Record playing one large glass door, walnut sides and the speaker model is NS-A99B-a 6 ohm system. I would like to find another set in very good condition. I am a music lover but had to quit picking when I was left a third grade daughter to raise and a job with a subsidiary company of Goodyear called Wingfoot Commercial Tire, selling by traveling to strip mining jobs, Giant Earth Mover tires in Southwest VA, (where I live), Eastern KY, and Southern West VA. I learned to pick by LP and still have them and many more plus I have purchased hundreds of dollars in CDs. I need to get them out and start re-learning. However my speakers, at least the Woofers-12" had a bad case of foam rot! I didn't know and saw a Stereo salesman who once worked for Audition, the place my stereo came from who had quit them and ran his own place for several years selling mostly car POWER SYSTEMS. The fellow who was with me had been into the car stereo equipment and talked me into buying a set of Rockford Fosgate or however you spell it called Punch ( I think). You can hardly make out what it is because it is written in slanted, elongated, slurred letters I can't read. They may have been "Kickers", someone out there will know, but they were 8 ohm. I didn't notice and connected them in the Yamahas place! I was told that it wouldn't make a difference but I hate to drag all that stuff out to have sound trouble. Yamaha has no records of the NS A99B Speakers and they gave a local dealer a list of dealers who couldn't find any woofers either. I hate to say this to a bunch of pros, but Mag Records was a short drive from my house and he used to call me to come down when he had a big name band like Ralph Stanley recording, and wanted me to be a Studio banjo picker for bands who had no picker show up for a recording. I remember when he had an old 4 track system and a very small studio and as he kept upgrading and growing, his speakers went from brand to brand. I heard JBL, Infinity, and several other greats, but my Yamahas were as good as I had heard with only a 85 watt receiver and a powered equalizer. One of the Yamaha Dealers was just down in Greenville, TN, and said to send him the old Yamahas and he would refoam them. My local repair man talked to him but he wanted to do the same thing and also had a set of Rockford Speakers like mine for sale, but I lacked the heart to tell him I had already replaced with the same thing-NEW- and tossed the old Yamahas. Unfortunately, I had tossed them years ago-not knowing they could be repaired. Our bass player refused to lug his amp and would put one of my cassette players on record and never hit the start button with cassette in. He connected through the Mic input and played for years through my system, every Friday night for many hours. I told Charlie Maggard, the owner of Mag Records and he said " He will ruin your speakers!" I said he had been doing that for years-from when they were new until I quit picking in late fall 1988-3-4-5 years and they were still rocking the house with full range of sound-Bass, Mid Range, and Tweeters-tweaked to what you like- a Bassy sound to a very fine high pitch or mid range. Charlie was amazed and said "They must be good speakers!" Anyone have a set for sell? Will the 8 ohm work as well. The man with me said the ones I replaced them with was of the finest brand he had heard in car equipment. I just bought a set of JBL 3800 Floor speakers, but I am disabled and haven't had a "Good Day" to try them. I have a lot of equipment, went to Denon equipment and bought a DP 30 L(S) LP Player like new in factory Denon box. Denon has no record of them. I have enough Denon equipment to build a new system, CD players, Amps, and three AV system Amps. But I had no intention of ever replacing my Yamaha Stereo Speakers . Are the JBL 3800 speakers any good. I haven't opened their boxes yet. I think they are AV speakers but could be wrong. When I am able too set up everything, I don't want to hook my Yamaha Speakers to a several hundred watt AV, or a set of 140 Watt set of JBL 3800 to them either. I do have old Denon Amps of low wattage-100 watt the lowest, before they gave up their sound for gadgets! Will the 8 ohm Rockford speakers replace the 6 ohm Yamahas? Are the JBL 3800 Floor speakers any good or should I try again? I am soon going to have enough equipment to open a store! Buy the way, my beloved Yamaha system rocked the house with only an 85 watt Amp, but I have a 145 watt and up to several hundred watts if I knew what to hook them to. I can't be sure but I think one AV AMP was 750 watt! What do you hook it to as far as speakers go and can they be rigged to use as a home Stereo System instead of a Surround Sound with many speakers? That's a lot of questions for one time and I hope I wrote it well enough for you to read and understand. I am dumb to this new stuff! I never thought I would see the day when you couldn't buy a new set of Full Size Home Stereo Speakers! Someone please try to make since of this mess and answer my questions as honestly as you can. You won't hurt my feelings. I may argue with you on the old stuff, but I don't know enough about the newer equipment to argue, though I am going to have to learn a little. But I will never give up my older equipment to play along with my LPs and CDs and get and my banjo re-learned! I have no inspiration picking alone!
