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Hello
I'm retired, and have been living in South Central Pennsylvania, on the Mason & Dixon line since 1976.
While attending college, I built a Dynaco SCA-80Q, an FM-5, with a pair of Dynaco A-25's purchased from Stereo Discounters in Bucks Co. PA. Upon graduation, I treated myself to a pair of Dynaco A-40XL's, and stumbled upon a nice Empire 598 III Troubadour turntable. Along with a few tape decks and CD players, that has been pretty much my system for most of my life.
Around 2020, I rebuilt my 80Q with board kits from Dan at UpdateMyDynaco. I loved it so much, I bought Dan's Akitika PR-102 preamp and his GT-108 amplifier. Nice stuff for sure.
At an estate sale in 2022, I copped a beautiful Dynaco PAS-3, Stereo 35, SCA-35 and a Stereo 70. Then I got the valve bug. I restomodded the PAS-3 with the D Labs power supply kit, and the line stage clone board kits from Erhard Audio. I then refurbished the Stereo 35 with Dave Gellespie's sensible EFB design. These are hooked to Klipsh Forte IV's and sound amazing.
I'm currently restoring the SCA-35 again with Gellespie boards. The ST-70 is in mothballs.
From Philly, I guess you could say Dynaco is in my blood. I had an Uncle who attended Drexel University from '62 to '66, and he assembled
factory wired SCA-35's for college spending money.
That's all for now. The picture is my SCA-80Q. I'll show-n-tell my Akitika and Dyna tube stuff in future posts.
