Tom Mobley

use wood or plastic sticks to poke around in the amp and always, always observe the one hand in pocket rule. 450V going from one hand to the other right through your heart, no good.

I have one of those pre-amps. It was given to me by a friend who built it as a EE project back in the 60s. It's loaded with Tf tubes and sounds great.

no price, no location, nothing about shipping. how do you expect to sell stuff?

yeah, tough sometimes to sell a good car. I've owned my Chevelle for 30 years, I've had thoughts about selling it lately. It's been a DD all along. Brought my son home from the hospital in it. Dang.

So, did you sell the Lotus?

IMO he deserves every bit of better there is. Good guy.

DizRotus, is daddydee still around? He was always one of my favorites. Back in the olden days, around the turn of the century. Still have a Lotus?

yes, mh for short. he did live in NC, I remember he got hammered by that big hurricane that blew through. Quite the character. IMO he sort of revolutionized this forum. This place used to be considerable different than it is now, Klipsch sort of castrated it to keep the noise down a little. It wasn't really serving their corporate interests the way it was. Kelly was heavily experienced, innovative, irreverent and a really good writer.

it's a mid-70s 400 small block chevy. I've built and run a lot of those things. Have a really nice 406 in my 70 Malibu now. yep, trendy caps. People were poor mouthing the orange drops, so I bought some Auricaps and installed. Sadly, I couldn't tell any difference at all. Too many years of plywood mills and open exhaust stock cars. I'm now 64 and can't hear a lot of stuff at all. My son (19) piped up the other day, griping about a cricket screeching, driving him crazy. I never heard it at all.

I had forgotten I put Auricaps in it. I think I have more somewhere, get rid of the last of the Orange Drops. Ignore that rusty thing under the amp, I swear I don't know what it is.

here's a couple pics. sharp-eyed readers will notice this is a factory built amp, all the tube sockets are riveted is. I ended up giving it a new PS transformer. it was run with bad rectifier tubes, melted all the wax out of the tranny. I ended up getting a new PS tranny for it from Heyboer. (sp?) they offered to overbuild a little. cripes, these pics are dated 2007 on my harddrive.

yeah, but some of the loons have ducats. Wonder whatever happened to Kelly? I still have my HF-81 I bought during the big tubes explosion. Got a bunch of orange drops in it, it still pretty much kicks butt all over the place.

my 70s Corns absolutely killed on an updated HF-81.

Thanks for taking time to reply.

Good thing you don't drink if you're driving that Ford in your avatar. That could get scary fast.

try it with the Optima. basically a no cost deal for you. I've done stuff like this before with good results. I predict you'll charge the battery once a month. LS will drive you out of the house with a few watts. I've got an NOS Nakamichi car receiver and big amp, I'm thinking of doing this. The Nak is from the good old days before they fell apart.

maybe you could hire one in. whatever you have to pay her is cheaper than the next round of amps and stuff.

where's the stuff for the adjustable bass output and screech filter? Is that the knob on the right front?

try running the car amp. get an Optima deep cycle battery. any decent charger will do. charge it up, run it till it's near dead. Charge it again. don't run the charger and the amp at the same time, hash from the charger is not nice. It'll have a pretty decent FM section, hook up an antennae made for FM and go. With LS or other Klipsch Heritage power output from the amp is not a big factor. 10-20 watts is plenty. Clean watts is what counts.

Davesans, what DIY 12AU7 pre are you using? Did you DIY it? Got a schematic or site?

Why are you using ALL CAPS to spell EXACT? What does EXACT mean to you? you realize this wood, right? Not normally measured with giant micrometers or laser sizing instruments?

Go to his house with a pickup and $3000 cash, I'll bet you get them. CL, around here the first person who shows up with the cash wins, regardless of what's been said over the phone or email.

CT125 is superior to the K-77 in every way, IMO. I answered your PM BTW. I believe those are in fact Primavera, a very rare option. They look very nice. I wouldn't worry about that scratch, put a doily over it or something. Already have a couple of the most common updates installed, good. I wouldn't dilly-dally around, you'll probably never see a nicer pair for sale.

those things has JBL baby cheeks tweeters, JBL 2470 mids on Martinelli wood horns and dual bass bins with $800 apiece 15" drivers. When I got them ready to fire up I thought I would spend days fiddling to the crossovers and Al transformer based tweeter attenuators. I took them outside and ran a quick sweep test with a CD based tone generator and a Rat Shack meter. I was completely freaked out when they showed really good. I took them back in the house and cranked them up on my HF-81, source was a Sony SACD. I couldn't believe how good they sounded. I played all kinds of different stuff on different days. Eventually backed off the baby cheeks on notch on Al's attenuators and shipped them. Those JBL drivers on the Martinelli horns are to die for. I've never heard anything that good before or since. They made my '60 Khorns with all original components sound like a transistor radio. Fortunately for me, auditory memory is short.

>>> Didn't you did the build on Smilin Steve's DBB Cornwall cabs!? Yes, built the whole things except for your work of art crossovers. Wonder whatever happened to them?