Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #140 on: 20 Jun 2011, 11:54 pm »
at the moment listening to:



McIntosh MR71 tube tuner from 1965

I had one of those. Beautiful tuner - the best one I ever owned. The sound was sweet and natural. It might not have been the very best DXer but I think it was the best sounding McIntosh ever.

That amp under my name is a modified Stereo 70 from around 1960. Those are the original output transformers. The power transformer is off the chassis, hooked up with a fat umbilical. It was modified by American Hybrid Technology around 1989. Dan Fanny designed all the boards and solid state rectifier - a lot more than just a diode. Those are EL34 with 6FQ7 input tubes. It puts out 50wpc and has a rise time of 3 Usec. It was originally my tweeter amp in a biamp set-up.




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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #141 on: 21 Jun 2011, 03:08 am »
That amp under my name is a modified Stereo 70 from around 1960. Those are the original output transformers. The power transformer is off the chassis, hooked up with a fat umbilical. It was modified by American Hybrid Technology around 1989.

  Hmmm, wonder what the frequency response of that power supply is, with those *gigantic* caps.  I know that's the way they did it at the time, but wow.

     Brett

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« Reply #142 on: 21 Jun 2011, 04:44 am »
  Hmmm, wonder what the frequency response of that power supply is, with those *gigantic* caps.  I know that's the way they did it at the time, but wow.
     Brett

I've never seen another amp with this kind of storage, at least one like this. Those big caps are 5400MFD @ 200V, strung in series to make 600V. I found them back then in an ad. I think it was in Audio mag. Those other caps on top are bypass - speaker caps and resistors to make it discharge faster. I don't know about Freq resp of power supply, but the amp passes a perfect square wave at 1K and 10K (near perfect). So response to 100K or close. It was designed as a tweeter amp. The high end is flawless. I use it full range now. It has slam bass and a totally effortless detailed sound. Two techs fixed it recently, replacing some old resistors etc. Both of them remarked how nice it sounds. One of them builds tube electronics.

Danny was a tube god. He used to modify ARC and stuff like that. My other amps at the time were direct drive electrostatic tube amps. They drove Acoustat panels at 50KV. They had high voltage TV cap tubes. They also had storage - banks of photo flash caps and custom made 25KV suckers. They were lots of fun.
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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #143 on: 21 Jun 2011, 05:23 am »
Tip Toes. Both tall and short sets. Since they first came out..
Some Mark Levinson wire from the 1980s. Reterminated with Vampire tiffany style connectors.
CDs from the first start of CD era, mostly Classical music.
An old TT Dual Golden One with a 25 plus year old Dynavector Ruby23 cart on it.
Piles of old LPs... bought used in the past twelve years..
Then Adcom DA700 DAC, about 20 years old?
Some old five disck CD changers
An Audio Research SP-15 I bought used  about three years ago.
An Audio Research PH-2 phono box I bought used about six years ago
A bunch of my stuff is new last year... so not much old stuff

Eric

Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #144 on: 21 Jun 2011, 02:54 pm »
Mid 1970's Pioneer SX 1180

StereoNut

Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #145 on: 21 Jun 2011, 03:01 pm »
My ears!  :lol:

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #146 on: 27 Jun 2011, 06:43 pm »
PSB Stratus Gold speakers-21 years old & still sound perfect to me!! :)

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #147 on: 29 Jun 2011, 12:55 am »
Most of my audio gear is about 20 years old. My wife and I both bought 2 channel systems at about the same time. I have the following:

Yamaha AX-630 integrated amp
Denon 5 disc CD changer
Baby Advent II speakers
Boston Acoustics HD9 speakers
Boston 525v center channel

There is also a Denon 2 channel receiver of the same vintage that I am currently not using.

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #148 on: 6 Jul 2011, 08:47 am »
I have Luxman PD-284 and PD-277 turntables, they are from the late 70's and a few Luxman Preamps, including the C-350. It is also from the same time period.

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #149 on: 14 Jul 2011, 12:01 am »
AudioSource Amp Four (2x150w)
AudioSource EQ100

pansixt

Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #150 on: 14 Jul 2011, 11:49 pm »
Since the C28 Mac preamp went south, the oldest piece is my 70's McIntosh MR78 FM Tuner.

We have some local stations with good Jazz and Blues programs.

And there is always Car Talk with the tappet brothers and Prairie Home Companion.

James

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #151 on: 14 Jul 2011, 11:56 pm »
Man I gotta lay off the sauce.

My Dynaco ST70 is oldest.

BTW, Man after my own heart Neo.

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #152 on: 15 Jul 2011, 12:08 am »
Most of my audio gear is about 20 years old. My wife and I both bought 2 channel systems at about the same time. I have the following:

Yamaha AX-630 integrated amp
Denon 5 disc CD changer
Baby Advent II speakers
Boston Acoustics HD9 speakers
Boston 525v center channel

There is also a Denon 2 channel receiver of the same vintage that I am currently not using.

Hey!

   Advent Baby II was my first pair of speaker.  :D I remembered how much I was enjoying them back than. I sold them to my high school friend.... now I sometime wish I still have them :?

Take care,
Buddy  :thumb:

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #153 on: 15 Jul 2011, 12:19 am »
Sansui AU-D11 II  by my computer




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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #154 on: 15 Jul 2011, 05:30 am »
Sansui AU-D11 II  by my computer




these are nice amps; that one reminds me of the one i have over at my ex's, so she and my kids can enjoy tunes; it really is a sweet amp:


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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #155 on: 7 Sep 2011, 02:30 pm »
Philips LHH1000 CD-tranport and DAC -1989

Traded most of my LPs as well as my turn table for it. Four dedicated power supplies for transport, digital circuits and L-R analogue channels.  Replaced several rubber belts in the transport mechanism over the years but i'm confident it'll be fine for the next 20yrs.  :green:

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #156 on: 9 Sep 2011, 08:22 am »
an emt 930 from 1955/6

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #157 on: 19 Sep 2011, 11:48 pm »
Rotel/Martel FAX150 EL84 single ended receiver circa 1965



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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #158 on: 20 Sep 2011, 01:05 am »
Original issue, Mark 1 ears, circa 1951... :green: modified a couple years ago by  Phonak.  Dang expensive mods, too!

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Re: Oldest piece of audio gear you currently use
« Reply #159 on: 12 Nov 2011, 06:28 pm »
DUAL 1229 turntable.