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Cool Beans, You're all set then. Congrats. Mark

Hey Jeff, How did you determine the crossover and tweeters were bad? Were they Biamped? You'd have to remove the speaker terminal assembly off and see if any wires were cut.A lot of these units will be "cob jobbed" to suit whoever thinks they know what they're doings, interpretation of a schematic Check your voice coils on the bad tweeters with a meter. If in fact your tweeters are bad you can get them from many places. I get mine from Bob Crites a forum member here. If you have any questions or need help feel free to PM me. I can send you pics or schematics if wanted. Mark

Potentially Sold, Thanx for looking and responding all. Mark

I sent ya a reply. mark

Well I got a good deal on it so why not pass it along to someone else who might want to get into tubes. I really want some VRD's come fall or early winter or Craig's newest creation who know's. In the meantime I'll use my Magnavox that I rebuilt. It'll do for the summer. Thanx guys, Mark

If you're interested you can leave me a message in my inbox or email me at frisbie.mark@gmail.com. I also have a Sonic Impact portable T-amp that I purchased new and only tried out for one afternoon I'll let go for $24. I wasn't enamored with it at all. Mark

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Hello all, I have a ST70 I would like to part with. I purchased this two years ago from a friend of Guy Landau's. He replaced all of the filter and coupling caps.Rebuilt the power supply and replaced the selenium rectifier with a diode. He also replaced all of the resistors that were out of spec. The tube compliment consists of 4 EH EL34's, a Sovtek 5AR4A and Dynaco 7199's. The transformers have the desirable cloth leads. The stereo mono switch isn't hooked up. I'm also including a new Ruby Tube 5AR4. I've probably used this for a couple of hundred hours. It holds it's bias well too. The only thing I've done to it was give it some custom feet and care for and enjoy it. I really don't want to part with it but I could use the dough to pay for some recently acquired pro equipment. I paid $425 for it I would like to get $400 for it plus shipping. We can split the insurance. Or better yet I'd be willing to drive a few hours to meet up. If it doesn't sell here I won't e-bay it I'll just keep it. Mark

Cody, Wireless for my laptop I use a ROKU M1000 wireless soundbridge which can be had for about $200 American. It has a digital out but I don't have a DAC. It also has an analog out. I know there's better units out there but this suits my needs just fine. I also have a Behringer U-control UCA-202 which can be had for $30 American and that works well. It's an external USB audio interface. It has digital out as well. I had the day off the otherday and experimented recording an LP to the laptop with good results using the Behringer. Good Luck, Mark

Well right now the pension is supposed to give me 9 grand a year if I retire at 65 .That's right now if no more is invested. Do companies still go belly up and people lose they're entitlements. We're talking about Ryder here. I mean like there's gotta be some sort of protection built in right? Mark

Nice score Gary! There's loads of deals out there it's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. I had someone give me a mess of tubes and a non working tester last year. I only got a few nice tubes out of the deal but the tester brought $75 non-working on e-bay. I would've kept the tester if it worked. Later Mark

I have an important decision to make myself here in the next couple of weeks. I currently have a 401k and a pension. Well they're doing away with the pension plan and going to an enhanced 401k program. Now if you've been with the company long enough you can continue with the pension plan (I fit in this category) or you can keep your existing pension at the current rate and switch to the new program. It's quite a dilemma.

How about Triumvirat? Anyone else besides me ever listen to this? Mark

Name the artist and album and win a cookie! It's fairly common. Mark

I've always liked this one.

Thanx for the replies guys, I think the kp 301's are kinda heavy for stands unless I get those nice metal mounts from fender as mentioned in previous post by Micheal and Dr. Who. I do have industrialized Heresy's to work with too. I can get some stands in the future. Right now I gotta work with what I got. This is a low budget fledgling operation. I think stacking and bridging the KP-1000's would be more ideal too. Now this BBE thing can't I pretty much achieve the same thing with the XTI? Mark

Hey all, Well I ditched the Altec 944a Thursday night and bought a Crown XLS 402. The Altec would go into protect mode just by bumping into it. I did my first Graduation party Saturday. It was a blast. I did a preliminary setup Friday night. They had me on the side of a garage with a carport type overhang. I put a mirror ball in. Stuck my light tree up. I placed two fog machines in the rafters just above the light tree. I put the 301's on top of the subs. It sounded excellent. There were probably about 150 people there. They cooked 100 chickens and a huge slab of beef. I played a mix of oldies, country and your run of the mill pop songs. Later on I played dance music and those girls were doing alot of that dirty dancing type stuff. I was wanting to break it down around 10 pm but everyone wanted more. All the young men were playing some sort of beer pong drinking game out by the huge bonfire so I played a mess of angry young man music and they were set. I finally get it broke down around midnight. Overall it was a riot and I got a $100 tip. Today I'm going to get some business cards made. For now I'm going to stick with parties and such. I don't want to be responsible for ruining someones wedding. Also I need to look into getting a small trailer so I don't have to load and unload. I think it's awesome that I can turn my hobby into a money making enterprise. BTW I ain't gonna quit my day job. They did take some digital photos I'll see f I can get some. Later all, Mark

You've been a very busy man Noah. Two sets of Cornwalls in less than two months. Good job. If I were you I'd replace the caps and such as recommended by others. But I would also try to restore them to their former decorator state. Provided you don't have small children, cats or iguanas running through your home. Take care, Mark

Hey Dr. Who, The XTI is very quiet. However I don't have loads of experience in these matters. The only other pro amp I've ever had other than the XTI is the noisy Altec Lansing 9444a. I was also concerned about some distortion (very small amount) coming from the power supply of my laptop. But in a public setting it was inaudible. I don't play mp3's from it only WMA lossless format. The party was a great success. Sometimes the volume would creep up on you and I'd have to cut it back some. I've heard Mike mention this before. Overall it was a riot and everyone was impressed young and old people. Mark

Mike, The setup sounds excellent. I purchased a mixer rack, a furman power conditioner, and a Pro dual cd player. I made a amp rack out of 3/4" plywood. I was up til 2:00 am last night wiring everything up nice and in about an hour I have to drive it down to a marina where there's gonna be a nice party. Maybe I can get another pic out to show my progress. Happy 4th of July! Mark

Damn! Good deal congats. Mark

Thanx Mike, good to know. Mark

Thanx Dr. Who I have a basic design idea for what I have in mind to build the rack. Your links help tremendously. Also thanx for the Crown recommendation too. This unit is very versatile and the build quality is fantastic. Mark