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  1.  but I'm not driving north until it warms up some  .....

     

    LOL ... Warms up in florida ?  Ha , it's  -35 here in northern Canada  ...  I met the guy in a parking lot where we swapped $ for lascala in weather cold enough to freeze you nuts to your zipper ....

  2. Tube lot 4-sale ….

     

    Quad of Russian KT-88  ( About an hours use on this quad )

    Pair of Philips “ mini watt “  GZ-34 Rectifiers   ( NOS and totally mint )

    5 Mullard ECC82/ 12AU7

    2 Ken Rad ECC82 / 12AU7

    6 Channel Master 12BH7A

    2 RCA 12BH7A ( NOS / NIB )

    2 GE 12AU7A made in Great Britain

    4 unbranded 12AU7EG

     

    $350.00

     

    The Philips mini watts are worth the $350.00 by themselves , so the remainder your getting for free .

     

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  3. 6 hours ago, CECAA850 said:

    Klipsch won't sell them?  I'm going to need one eventually myself.

     

    This is probably why guys steal  the badges off the grills in stores .... My last trip to London drugs , I seen 3 of those klipsch radio things on display and all of them had the badges taken .

     

    30 years ago , we moved properties and the moving company torn some of the grille cloth on my k-horns ... took me 3 months of battling with klipsch to get a meter of it to repair .

  4. On ‎12‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 1:46 PM, mike stehr said:

    If had the income to afford Lessard's pre-amplifier, I'd snap it up.

     

     

     

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    I would love to sent it your way ..... The JFL stuff should all stay together , those that have no clue about Jeff's talent will loose out forever :(

     

    I'm sure we could work something out ... even a payment plan

  5. On ‎12‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 11:42 AM, billybob said:

    Do tell, and welcome again...B)

     

     

    Thanx .. but it would be " Welcome back "  ... I've been here since day one of the forum conception , leave every once and awhile once I get tired of the same old same old .. then return a year or two later to find the forum changed and my used name and posts all gone .

     

    I think I'm on my 5th or 6th user name now ....

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  6. Bought my first pair of lascala's new in 1979 ... long before 1/2 the forums current  members were born or still toddlers  , back then this was a hobby ...

     

    We changed driver , we changed horns , we modified cabinets , we swapped out gear and cables ... no inter-net  back then , no E-BAY , no audio forums , no buy and sell websites ... Just guys swapping and trading and experimenting .

     

    After the lascalas , I actually got my hands on a mint pair of Altec Lansing " Voice of the Theater " .... I kick myself every time I think I sold them for a crappy old pair of Altec Lansing Model 19's just because they took up less space in the living room .... lol

     

    This pic is an example of what audio being a hobby is about ....

     

     

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  7. Bump .... Really ?????

     

    10 to 15 years ago there would have been a bidding war over anything built by JFL at twice the cost ....

     

    Sh#t , there is $500.00 worth of NOS NIB tubes that go along with this pre-amp alone ..

     

    See if you can find 3 RCA 5AR4 Rectifiers from the 50's that test worth being in your system , or a NOS  NIB quad of GE 6SN7 GTB in the original box and the original 4 pack ..

     

    Your looking at a diamond and thinking coal

     

     

     

  8. Bump ... does no one treat this as a hobby any longer ?

     

    When was the last time you seen a post of anyone doing the lower base bin mod on a lascala ... you know , taking the bottom door off and building a bin .

     

    Seems like a plug and play hobby now :( 

  9. On ‎12‎/‎1‎/‎2017 at 3:51 PM, MetropolisLakeOutfitters said:

     

    I can sustain over 120 db with my jubilees with only 90 watts per channel, playing actual music.  :ph34r:  

     

     

    My post actually mentioned " My First " HT room contained ..... that was all klipsch

     

    Now my second room was 24' x 20' ( 10 foot ceiling )  with 8 METRIX line arrays in each corner  ( 32 total )  ...  Dark side of the moon in HDCD was a religious experience in that room ...

     

    I used to demo the room for my buddies with the Blu-ray  movie  " HEAT "  after the gang robs the bank and moves into the street for the gun battle , you could feel the gun shots hitting you in the chest ! It was truly sick

  10. 2 hours ago, richieb said:

     

    I know about his designs and if I wasn't beginning my slow exit from tubes I would have already been in touch. As I say this I now ask - you don't have one his 2a3 push pulls do you?

     

     

    No .. but down in the garage sale I just sold off all the magnaquest transformers and grit chokes to build his Horus 300b .. as well as 2 walnut chassis that match my pre-amp , ear marked for the 300b project .  Had all the parts to build , had no time to do it :( 

     

    This is a picture Jeff sent me when he was burning in the pre-amp when he still lived in quebec ... don't you love the home made interconnect ? Canar G-6 Guitar cable with cardas ends , I must have built a dozen pairs of those over the years ... 128 strand OFC doesn't get any better and at a 50th the cost of brand name .

     

     

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  11. what's funny is I've got a Jean François  Lessard  6SN7 SRPP pre-amp for sale in the garage section and no one on the board seems to know about Jeff or his time spent here on the forum .

     

    Time do change ... even the magnaquest site is gone , all of JFL amazing amps were plastered all over that site .

     

    Not only is this an incredible pre-amp ... but it is also serial #001 and that ,  you can't find anywhere else .

  12. Dynaco Mark III's can still be found on the cheap ... they are inexpensive and easy to bring up to date,  plus they  pack a " huge " punch for the buck ..

     

    the iron in those old mark III's are worth there weight ...

     

    I just sold these to another forum member for 1500.00 CAN which is closer to $1200.00 USD ... fully restored and modified by Craig at Nosvalves

     

    Original purchase b4 mods was about $500.00

     

    These amps can drive a pair of lascalas to near ear bleeding volume with headroom to kick you in the gut , with the added bonus of crystal clear clarity for your sonnet's .

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  13. Letting go part of the family .... 

     

    JFLessard shunt regulated push pull 6SN7 pre-amp , hand built , point to point wiring , Walnut chassis ... Serial #001 , Chris Robinson from this board has #002

     

    3 inputs

    Hi and low Z output

     

    Comes with :

    NOS quad of GE 6SN7GTB

    2 Rogers 6SN7 GTB

    3 Tung-Sol 6SN7 ( Mouse ears )

    2 Sovtek 6SN7

    3 Sylvania 6SN7

    3 RCA 5AR4 Rectifiers ( 1950's Vintage )

    1 Rogers 5R4GYB Rectifier

     

    Sacrifice at $1500.00

     

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