Looking for a good vintage receiver or integrated amp with a mono switch and...

elliotbnewcobjr

Thank you for your equipment suggestion...

But you have raised a question I don't know the answer to:
I'm assuming that by looking for a piece of equipment with a Mono switch, I'm thinking that I can take 2 channels (L&R) and channel them into a one channel signal, making it easier to go mono with one speaker. So I'm not sure how to do that when I'd have 2 active (yet the same) channels...

Thank you for your thought provoking input...

...just realized what I’d do: use one channel (RH) to woofer and one channel (LH) to mid and high...

? Would this then give me 2X power in watts/channel as mono (doubling the power of single channel in a weird bi-wire situation)?

You have a single speaker.

I'm thinking buy a complete budget boom box type thing.  Get a budget LP player with 16/33/45/78 with a built in Phono stage. I'd try something like that before I'd go piece mealing a system together for under a thousand, WITH vinyl..  I think I could, but that would be real tough.. and an OK Mono system, too.

Your making a simple task hard.. think about that single speaker for a while... WHY?? Because you have it...  My question is do you want good music? or do you want to use that speaker? They may not be the same thing..

Happy hunting in any case..

Regards