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Hello All,
The local dump in town here has a recycling center where people drop off stuff they dont want anymore and while i was there I picked up couple receivers: a Kenwood KR-4600, Pioneer SX-3600 and a low-powered Rotel. Also picked up a Marantz Model 5000 tape deck, Stromberg-Carlson tube radio and a cardboard box of 106 vacuum tubes. I just finished counting and labelling the tubes. I dont really know what i have on hand in terms of their value, use or etc. 95% of the tubes are Realistic Lifetime Tubes and the others are Westinghouse. The various ones in realistic boxes are labelled most of them have "Japan" printed on them and the rest are either Britain or Canada. 97 of the 106 tubes are boxed and look like they have never seen daylight. some are tiny some are rather large.. Im gonna guess and say theyre unused. Some models I see are 6JM6A, 12DQ6B, 6KN6, 27GB5, 17AX4GTA, 3AU6, 15DQ8, 6LE8, 6LJ8, 6S4A,4B27, 12FX5, 6GB5, 6JM6A, 6AX4GTB and well i dont have the patience to write them all out. does any of it seem worth anything at all?
The tube radio seems very old and was caked in dust. I managed to clean it quickly and snap a couple pics. Can it be used as a stereo amp? Is it worth the effort to hold onto it to get it restored in the future? or is it just garbage and not worth anything? I have zero experience with tube amps. I have been gaining interest and been reading about tube amps online and lurking on here mainly. Unfortunately i have no money to spend on even the most basic of tube amps currently so was wondering if this tube radio was worth holding onto. I will try to upload a couple pics, please let me know if the pics dont work properly.
Thanks for any help!
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used to run my kg2 through a friend's 430 few years ago, it was always surprising how well it sounded in comparison to other bookshelf systems. even as the smallest kg's they are still pretty good
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that is one ridiculously cool competition! ive been itching to get into something of this sort, as part of my semester we've had to build a sumobot and a search'n'rescue bot, wish there were local competitions of this sort.
congrats to your girl!
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While searching for a cheap class-T amp that wasn't Sonic Impact, I came across the TA-10 offered by Trends Audio thats listed here
http://www.musical.ca/catalog/item/4377302/4344389.htm
For a really good review and good pictures of both the outside and the inside check the 6moon's review here
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/trends/ta10.html
The 6moons review also includes the writer's listening session of that amp paired with LaScalas, thought that might intrigue you guys. It sounds like a fantastic deal at $129.95, being a student and all, I'm waiting on my tax return to see how much I can spare for this amp.
enjoy
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haha, no its not a new one but its a classic episode. how've you been michael? longtime no see
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Shaun may not have been putting up the numbers in the previous weeks but the defenses were surely there to stop him. They were so focused on stopping shaun, and when they were successful, Hasselbeck threw well. Without a sufficient ground threat its easier for the opposing team to pick at 'hawks other weak points.
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what a good game, the bears D was ridiculous.. as always. I feel the pain mOOn, watching the Steelers so far, phew! They surely missed Shaun's presence, their run game was.. well, not there at all.
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m00n, another season of bickering back n forth begins soon enough
its going to be my first season ever watching the NFL without Jerome Bettis, that guy will be missed but Steelers will still kick an unbelievable amount of ***.
Already got 2 fantasy teams drafted, third coming up... damn I just can't wait anymore
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those 82 rosewood khorns , even just the pics, are 100% of my daily intake of awesomeness... *drooooooooool*
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does anyone have a pic of that rosewood Khorn pair? they've always been in my klipsch dreams
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sweet lookin'! will wait for the veneered pics
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There are other speakers than Klipsch??.................JBL are nice, just don't get the Northridge line get Vintage, or if you don't mind a few extra dollars............Totem..........totem are the nicest small(er) speaker I've ever heard..................
I've heard most of Totem's speakers and their bookshelfs are highly acclaimed like their Model 1, Mite, Rainmaker and such. They mostly use the 5 1/2' woofer so their bass extension doesn't go down too deep.
As mentioned the northridge series from jbl aren't that great, stay away and venture into vintage jbl perhaps.
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ranjith, I have not heard a squeezbox. I just can't get past the form factor. Why on earth would you make a "music component" that does not lend itsef to a rack mount, equipment rack or other sort of typical A/V furniture.
Also, since I run the digital out from the ATron to my Sunfire's pre/pro digital in...I am using my Sunfire's DAC. The ATron pretty much functions as a nice, small piece of gear in my system to manage my music with out the space and mess of 100s of CDs. If I really want critical listening I use my turn table.
If you are a computer guy, the AT's software is all ASP so you can actually write your own software for it. Both the web interface and using the controls on the device are more then adequate. It is pretty simple to manage literally 1000's of songs. You can also make custom playlists like all the other devices.
will peep my head into ebay and keep an eye out for Atrons ... hopefully I can afford one by mid-september being a student and tall even a little purchase takes awhile to come by. thx for the recommendation .. from what i've read online so far the atron seems like the deal i want - good bang for the buck
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Ranjith- type in Led Zeppelin and have a blast man!
Michael
Michael, I beat ur post to doing it
and then typed radiohead and then typed pink floyd and then typed deep purple, and whoa.. there are so many bands out there I've never even heard of that sound so fantastic. So much talent that I didn't even know existed, its nice having Pandora bring music to my ears apart from the mp3s,cds and LPs one owns... its really tempting to buy new cds now! how've u been michael, hows the digital transition working out for you? I'll email you with some questions regarding my own photography later today -
rplace, I've read about the audiotron but never heard it personally. Have you heard the squeezebox? I wonder how it compares to the SB. Audiotron does seem to go for a lot cheaper so I guess it'd be more of a logical place for me to start. I have all my music on my PC in 320 format as well, played around with the variable bit rate but wasn't quite satisfied. Plus external 200 or 250gb drives are relatively cheaper these days off ebay to have everything in lossless as well.
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Ive never heard of Pandora, and I think I'm really starting to like it a lot.. theres so much music I haven't heard that I really like! nice post
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I have a kenwood ka-series integrated myself, I drive the kg2s with them. I'm thinking they should be good with something like the heresys? or fortes?
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I think Sting could've been higher than #62, his voice suited The Police's tone so well. Even Flavour Flav ranks higher than Sting [:|]
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chops! thats one awesome looking piece of equipment! those strings on that 5-stringer must really translate to something like the equivalent of a sledgehammer on ur chest! wow
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Good point on the ramjet, but for some reason it never got as popular as I thought it would become. Because the ramjet doesn't require the aircraft to have a compressor or a turbine, the aircraft should theoretically be lighter and hence faster. But nevertheless it still requires a normal engine to the aircraft up to supersonic speeds for the ramjet to kick in because it doesn't work under half the speed of sound. I wonder if ramjet will be implemented into commercial aircraft. The only aircraft that uses a ramjet i know if the SR-71's pratt and whitney engine (although only at high speeds). I've already read, but very little, about the Pulse Detonation Wave Engine - and it sounds like it would be extremely efficient but once again only at extremely high speeds. Is it possible to have an aircraft with an advanced engine use the quiet spike technology? Seems quite possible, in my day dreams.
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That was my nest guess!
How about this:
"You have to use a sharp stabbing motion--
Pulp Fiction!
how about "when you have to shoot.... shoot, dont talk"
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Welcome aboard Rick, love those pics! does look handsome indeed how do they sound with ur speakers?
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I spent a few mins on my run thinking about the consequences of the Quite Spike technology, it really is amazing. If GD does sell the rights to the likes of Boeing, Airbus and so on for commercial applications then that would mean supersonic flights would slowly replace all aircraft pretty much. The rebirth of the Concordes perhaps or the creation of a Super Concorde? I've seen the concorde at airports, while take off and while landing... to me its still one of the most visually stunning aircraft of our times especially considering the fact that it started its service in 1976. Even if Gulfstream starts using the technology solely on its aircraft, theres a LOT of money to be made consider the number of people around the world who'd dish out the bills to get them around faster.
Will there be a detailed publication of some sort regarding this technology, how it functions, how it was designed and etc? That would be a fabulous read.
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2518kbps on the download and 349kbps on the upload... not bad for dsl
found a few receivers, tube radio and various tubes for free. can i get help figuring them out?
in 2-Channel Home Audio
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thanks for the answers.
the electromagnetic speaker thats attached to the tube radio visually looks to be in prime condition. unfortunately the power cable was snipped off and so i couldn't just plug it in to see if it would turn on. I'll take a shot of the underside, it looks a bit messy. And maybe im wrong but I think i see a few capacitors that look to be made of paper? I remember reading somewhere that these are a fire hazard.
I could make up file listing all the tube types. I went through each box and the tube inside is exactly what it says on the box outside. I dont know anything about tubes and yeah visually they look pretty new. Here is the deal, i searched about the Realistic Lifetime Tubes and apparently Radioshack still warranties them till this day. If i can somehow test these and a few, if not all, turn out to be bad I can contact Radioshack for warranty. They supposedly replace them with some chinese tubes which in turn are not warrantied. So either way I'd have a working tube. Ultimately it'd be real cool to have it work. I've had experience in designing, building, and testing circuits (nothing complex, mostly control systems and such). I am decent with a soldering iron and if I can learn about how to fix this I would definitely give it a shot. If the tubes turn out to be not very audio amp worthy I could always give them away to whoever wants any of it. I just dont wanna say pay shipping without knowing if they even work. Are there any good sites, tutorials or books to learn about vacuum tubes and related circuitry/uses?
If it doesn't work I could always sell it although I have no idea what it'd be worth, if anything at all. I found a tiny brown label on the underneath of the chassey and it lists the tubes it uses: 80, 6F6, 6F5, 6H6, 6K7, 6A8 and another 6K7.
The other two vintage receivers that i also picked up seem to work well. I threw them in with an old technics cdp i had lying around and matched with my KG2. Kenwood is more powerful but the Pioneer sounds much nicer. Its warmer and the low end is much smoother. However, theres a slight problem with the pioneer. the left channel both in A and B seem to be crackling/noisy. does this sound like an easy fix?