I was hoping some of the more experienced folks here could help me figure out how to best go about restoring some vintage gear that I no longer have any room for. I'm also not really sure what constitutes the term "vintage", but I'm going to assume that like automobiles it means anything over 25 years old.
I have the following pieces that I'd like to restore and auction off, and the restoration ranges from minimal cosmetics to some electronics work, but nothing too involved in either case as most of this stuff is in really good condition.
1) Pair of extremely good condition JBL L300 Summits. They've been played very little since they were bought, and I am the second owner. They are in basically excellent condition except the foam surrounds on the woofers are disintegrating and I've already made arrangements to have these replaced. The wood and black glass on top is flawless.
2) Marantz 4400 receiver. Again in excellent cosmetic condition and may or may not have one channel not working so I need advice on where to get this checked out and repaired if necessary. I don't have any of the add-on units such as the Quad decoder or the remote control, but the scope does appear to be working.
3) Akai GX-747-D open reel tape deck. Again excellent cosmetic condition, used very little, but needs some cleaning. This is the one with the glass ferrite heads (6 of them) which are rated for something like 150,000 hours playtime (which means they are basically new).
4) Teac A-6010 open reel deck. Good cosmetic condition but again, probably needs some clean-up, but also needs the lamp in the left VU meter replaced. These were apparently quite popular and some say the best reel-to-reel that Teac made. Vintage is 1972
5) Technics SL-1300 turntable -- haven't looked at this in a long time, but probably needs cleaning. Don't remember which cartridge is on it, if any. This is the semi-automatic unit that picks up the arm at the end of play.
6) Micro Seiki DDX-100 with a carbon fiber arm of unknown vintage (still have to figure this out), and an AKG A8e (?) cartridge. This needs some cleaning up, but otherwise has been used for no more than 10 hours total.
So, any advice on which of these is worth doing work on, what work, who to do the work, and then any advice on how to best seel them would be very much appreciated. I know the L300s, the Marantz, and the Akai were quite expensive when they first came out and appear to have held their value pretty well, so these are the things I'm most wanting to concentrate on.
I should also say that I live in Boulder, CO, and that I'd like to avoid shipping this stuff all over creation to have the workdone (and will only ship the speakers when they are complete as they weigh 140 pounds each and are the size of dormitory refrigerators.)
TIA to anybody who can help,
Jim
