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jhm731 · « **Reply #160 on:** 9 Mar 2013, 12:30 am »

PIONEER A-980/1981

SET Man · « **Reply #161 on:** 9 Mar 2013, 03:42 am »

Quote from: jhm731 on 9 Mar 2013, 12:25 am

JBL 4311B/1978

Hey!

Now that's oldie but still goodie

Take care,
Buddy

jhm731 · « **Reply #162 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 12:13 am »

thunderbrick · « **Reply #163 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 12:59 am »

Quote from: doug s. on 3 Mar 2013, 10:00 pm

this has been chez sedon for a couple years; it was adwertized as not working when i got it - signal strength meter tube bad. i finally decided to try to trouble shoot it; the 6g-e12 signal strength meter tubes are rare as hen's teeth, and i had no luck finding another one for less than a few times what i paid for the complete tuna. i wariac'd it slowly last night, and gave it a go today; it turns out that everything is fine. one of the tube socket connections was shorting out against another chassis connection. w/everything cleaned, lubed, and the socket connector moved away from the chassis, everything works and sounds fine, including the signal strength meter tube. it sounds good; further ewaluation will be forthcoming after it runs in a few days.

doug s.

i think that's the model that my dad had circa 1957, and I got it when I was about 16 (1967). Fond memories!

EDIT: Wrong model. His was mono with a multiplex output.

doug s. · « **Reply #164 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:22 am »

Quote from: thunderbrick on 12 Mar 2013, 12:59 am

i think that's the model that my dad had circa 1957, and I got it when I was about 16 (1967). Fond memories!

EDIT: Wrong model. His was mono with a multiplex output.

it could be the right model - this one is also mono w/a mpx out. it says "stereophonic", cuz you can operate am on one channel and fm on the other. (notice the "selector" switch.) some stations did this in the early days of stereo - broadcasting one channel on am & the other on fm, before fm stereo.

you'd be surprised how many wintage tubed tunas are like this - they say "stereo" but they are not really, w/today's broadcasts - you need a mpx decoder.

it's been up & running 24/7 now for a little over a week, and it is sounding mitey-fine, thru a relatively modern studio-12 fm mpx decoder...

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #165 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:24 am »

Micro Seiki BL-91

doug s. · « **Reply #166 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:29 am »

Quote from: jimdgoulding on 12 Mar 2013, 01:24 am

Micro Seiki BL-91

sweet! but why hide the "real" one?

doug s.

thunderbrick · « **Reply #167 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:30 am »

Quote from: doug s. on 12 Mar 2013, 01:22 am

it could be the right model - this one is also mono w/a mpx out. it says "stereophonic", cuz you can operate am on one channel and fm on the other. (notice the "selector" switch.) some stations did this in the early days of stereo - broadcasting one channel on am & the other on fm, before fm stereo. you'd be surprised how many wintage tubed tunas are like this - they say "stereo" but they are not really, w/today's broadcasts - you need a mpx decoder.

it's been up & running 24/7 now for a little over a week, and it is sounding mitey-fine, thru a relatively modern studio-12 fm mpx decoder...

I may be way off base on this, but I am convinced that back in the B&W days, Disney broadcast the Dinosaur portions of "Fantasia" on TV, with one stereo channel on the TV and the other through FM. It was a big deal in our house but I don't remember if we could actually get it to work. Anybody else remember such a thing?

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #168 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:33 am »

You the man, Douglas.

doug s. · « **Reply #169 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:40 am »

Quote from: jimdgoulding on 12 Mar 2013, 01:33 am

You the man, Douglas.

no, you the one w/the m/s!

i guess i can throw out a pic of my oracle - it is actually over thirty years old.

doug s.

TrungT · « **Reply #170 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:42 am »

Norman Labs 631

AB · « **Reply #171 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 02:28 am »

I'm listening to a pair of Norman Labs Model Eights right now.

Whitese · « **Reply #172 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 03:33 am »

I thought I was done with vintage for awhile, and then a refurbished Fisher 400 comes along locally, so I remove the ads for my EV12trxb's, and here we are!

jhm731 · « **Reply #173 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 06:42 am »

There were lots of great looking Japanese TT back then:

But I always liked my Linn:

GT Audio Works · « **Reply #174 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 12:55 pm »

One of a few pieces of gear I never should have sold

Greg

doug s. · « **Reply #175 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:11 pm »

Quote from: jhm731 on 12 Mar 2013, 12:13 am

your post led me to this:
http://www.janszenloudspeaker.com/

now, i wanna hear them!

doug s.

VinnKnee · « **Reply #176 on:** 17 Mar 2013, 02:31 pm »

Finally out of deep storage, six of the over forty pieces of gear I took in as trades during the 80's and 90's when I was installing audio systems.
Yamaha CR-1040, JVC JR-S400MarkII, Pioneer SX-1050, Yamaha CR-420, Nikko NR-1019 and Sansui G-7000

jhm731 · « **Reply #177 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 07:32 pm »

jhm731 · « **Reply #178 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 10:38 pm »

McIntosh ad-1949

SteveFord · « **Reply #179 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 10:59 pm »

Regarding that Frazier speaker, in my experience the only wife who would have a smile like that is the one who's wheeling it out to the curb.