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3 minutes ago, billybob said:
Got to have a knack for it!
a very special skill set
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1 hour ago, Westcoastdrums said:
Here's a topic of interest.... Altec VS klipsch used? Better value and SQ? 🤔. I have heard many people speak of altec but know nothing about em and have never heard a pair
To whom?
Model and era dependent and even then it's apples to oranges for the most part
Note I said MOST, NOT all
'ALTEC' covers a LOT of ground
Plenty to read about the history of the company and it's products on-line
The company that Jim Lansing started? Their peak period systems like the commercial VOTTs? There's no comparing the two, only thing close would be a Klipschorn
ALTEC no longer exists except in name only - a handful of former employees were keeping the torch alive for a while offering service, repair and even some new drivers based on the originals (and made in the U.S.A.) but last I heard that was coming to a sad close as well
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19 hours ago, Thaddeus Smith said:
It must be laundry day at your house, since you're wearing your cranky pants.
No cranky hear dude, I explained my comments based on my own pair of verticals and how the deal went down
I don't buy base solely on an ad anymore and even with an aural audition - especially a crummy one (again, lesson(s) learned the hard way)
Just sharing my experience is all - the eyes can deceive
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I don't how in the heck people manage(d) to blow woofers in Cornwalls
Tweeters OK, but woofers?
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1 hour ago, Lemon string said:
Thats a good deal. I've always wanted a pair of verticals.
You don't know that
Not from that crummy weird ad (and offing them after just 3 months?)
Unless you have seen them
Have you seen them?
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Whole lot of useless rambling in that ad and not a lot of specifics about the actual pair he is selling
I would insist on having him remove both backs for inspection if things get that far
I had a pair of Walnut verticals (1971), similar deal and only found out after I got 'em home one of them had a replacement woofer
Genuine Klipsch (but not a cosmetic/magnet match) and an appropriate substitute but still...................
.............you get the point
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5 minutes ago, jimjimbo said:
I think I detect some disdain for the "Badge Flippers".....
Are you his attorney?
I would prefer to hear DoubleJ's own answer rather than your speculation
I doubt, very seriously, that when those badges were still readily available from Hope, that anyone in their right mind was paying $50 to $100 the pair
Today of course is another story
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3 minutes ago, SiliconTi said:
YAY! It's mine! HA HA HA!
Thanks, it is better than advertised with super fast shipping. Thanks for helping me finish this project off!
Thank you for a clean deal and trust
Craig
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SOLD
in Garage Sale
I owned, and stupidly sold, a pristine 2220B
The 2220B is one of the best sounding Simi Valley Marantzs there ever was, including the big boys
If your 2220 (I never owned that incarnation) is 1/2 as good it'll better 75% of what's out there today
I owned many of the '22xx' series, including the cult faves and sold them all off eventually (long story)
That 2220B is the only one I still miss
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On 8/1/2018 at 4:47 AM, DoubleJ said:
One of the issues when Klipsch did sell the copper badges was that people were buying them for $8-10 from Klipsch and turning around and selling them on ebay for $50-100.
Thanks
JJ
And your point is?
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On 7/31/2018 at 5:37 PM, SiliconTi said:
Special Thanks to @analogman - he had just what I needed to make this project a success. Thanks!
Thank you for a nice clean deal
I'm glad/hope you are happy
Best regards
Craig
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Don't get any point and am unable to find any meaning in the post directly above
I can tell with certainty you have very little, if any at all, hands on experience with any of the classic Technics line-up
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Claimed and picked up already
Thanks to all
Craig
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https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/ele/d/free-cambridge-soundworks/6567969763.html
FREE - Cambridge Soundworks BassCube 12S Subwoofer (concord, california )
FREE IF YOU COME PICK IT UP RIGHT NOW - 4/24/2018Needs work
Good shape, a few scuffs on cab - driver cone and surround perfect
Speaker level spring loaded INPUT connectors messed up (missing) - line level jacks fine and work
Problem is bad plate amp - I already replaced the notorious Zeners that fail on these, moved the power resisters onto the other side of the board so as not to cook them again and touched up every solder pad on both boards
Still, no love and I'm not willing to pursue troubleshooting this any further (or paying for Fry's over priced bits)
Sub will play fine and then instantaneously stop - switch it off and back on and it will work again briefly
Customer support for Cambridge products is non-existent (no schematics available), so, this time vampire is beyond my skill set
Someone who really knows Solid State could probably diagnose this in a half hour or less - I'm done
Parts Express sells the same amp (100 Watts, drop in fit) for around $100 bucks with a 5 year warranty
$10 bucks CASH and Carry AS IS - FREE IF YOU PICK IT UP NOW
No Phone Number No reply
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32 minutes ago, Emile said:
Haha ... yeah ... especially since "he" is from Kazakhstan and the badges are mailed from China
They share a border
Who knows how far those things have to travel (and how many times they change hands) to get to a postal center from where they are actually (or were) made
His older listings differ from the more recent - maybe he moved his operation?
Did they show up in the little white bag mailer or a box?
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Here's hoipin'
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On 8/26/2017 at 8:22 AM, jfjacques said:
I noticed some yellow powder substance all over the back of the tweeter - anyone know what this is
It's the cadmium plating reacting with the elements, aka, oxidizing
On a steel chassis it will commonly show as silver or grey, but yellow is common too - all depends on the base metal that was plated with it
I think the proximity of large magnets can give you the "cadmium yellow" effect as well
The dust/powder is extremely toxic and you should avoid handling it and if and when you do wash your hands well afterwards
DEFINITELY AVOID BREATHING THE STUFF
Shows up on a lot of vintage electronics' chassis as well
I wear rubber gloves (now), soak a 99 cent store micro fiber cloth with WD-40 and clean it up as such, wash it with one and wipe down with another
I hate using them, but rubber gloves are a very smart move when cleaning any vintage electronics - and I used to avoid rubber gloves for working like the the plague
Rubber glove hate? When I started working as a mechanic it was bare handed and not just me (EVERYTHING, brakes, the parts washer, solvents, B-12, gasoline for hand cleaner, the whole schmear "old school") and when they came into use in the trade in a major way during the '80s I scoffed at them - been too many years and wasn't going to change - plus I couldn't "feel" my work and didn't won't to make the effort to make the transition (the acclimation)
Got my first cancer diagnosis in 2011
Whenever you see cadmium dust take every precaution to take care of yourself and avoid that shit - smart to wear a disposable particle mask as well when opening up ANY pair of old speakers or if you use compressed air to blow out old electronics
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Weird how many singles are turning up lately and not just Klipsch models - at least in my daily scouring of the classifieds
My local craigslist has had more single L100s, AR-2axs and late model Heresys (Is and IIs) lately than I can ever remember
A lot of good speakers you wouldn't normally associate with the MONO era or center channel or musical instrument use or even home theater left overs
Still pricing 'em like blue smoke though, around here anyway
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7 minutes ago, HDBRbuilder said:
It all depends on where you lived. And how much the fuel taxes in that state were, plus whether the state had its own minimum wage law that was a higher minimum wage than what the federal minimum wage was. Just like today! If you lived somewhere in California or New York you REALLY got screwed at the pump. Just like today!
I'm not going to continue to beat this into the ground
It's really irrelevant now, isn't it?
But I'm going to say it one more time and I'm standing by it
Gasoline, sold retail, at the gasoline pump, at the gas station (Esso, Shell, Gulf, Texaco etc etc etc) was NEVER 17 cents a gallon in the United States of America during the 1960s
In any and all of the 48 contiguous states Alaska or Hawaii
UNLESS it was some sort of promotion or gimmick perpetrated by an INDIVIDUAL station owner for whatever the reason, "gas war" statement whatever
I worked in and around the industry for decades; all you have to do is look at wholesale prices
No one sold gasoline for 17 cents a gallon, RETAIL, at the PUMP in the 1960s
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4 minutes ago, HDBRbuilder said:
It was called "the gas wars"...where all the service stations dropped their asking price for gasoline in order to attempt to beat out their competitors...no promotion involved. Gas was normally running around 23-25 cents a gallon, but when peak sales periods (summer, holiday seasons, etc.) came around, the "gas wars" started back up. The lowest I ever saw the price go was in 69-71 when it actually dropped below 20 cents for regular and stayed there for almost a year. During NON-peak sales periods, the gas price would hover around 23-25 cents per gallon for regular. When it was NOT a peak sales period, they offered promotions...a set of glasses or something like that for a fill-up of 10 gallons or more, for instance, but the price per gallon did not drop. I mowed peoples yards every spring/summer...bought my gas for my mower...remember it well...from 1964-1968. By late 1966 I was running around town and to and from school, and throwing a paper route from a 1967 (bought in Dec 1966) Yamaha twin-jet 100, the hot-rod of its class at the time. From that point onwards, I was filling gas tanks with gas for my vehicles. You used to be able to get "octane-blended" gas at the pump, too...where it mixed proportions of regular and premium to achieve the octane average of where you rotated the selection lever on the octane scale. High octane (premium or ethyl) gasoline was rated 120 octane or above.
I remember it well, both of 'em (the gas wars of the '60s and the '70s)
And you know, they were a sort of promotion, promoting the fact that station owners didn't appreciate the prices of crude going up either
Most of the "wars" were by mutual agreement between station owners (I was a pump jockey too in my youth) had an Esso right next door and on the next corner a GULF
Pushed my Craftsman lawnmower around a lot too for a quarter on those hot *** Eastern North Carolina Saturdays
But gas was never 17 cents during the mid '60s which is what he posted
Regardless, this is a pointless debate
Them days are long gone
With the irony that the profit on a gallon of gas today, real profit, NOT percentage is about the same as it was in 1965
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24 minutes ago, dwilawyer said:
You just didnt know how to buy it right. Either that, or you weren't in the right place at the right time.
You're right, I wasn't alive during the '30 or '40s
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45 minutes ago, WillyBob said:
I remember $0.17/gal in the mid 60's in Indiana and you got green stamps and premiums -- dishes, that kind of stuff
Gasoline was never 17 cents a gallon in the 1960s unless they were running some sort of promotion
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7 hours ago, willland said:
So Craig,
If that ad is from an active forum member, then most likely he/she will post in the main Garage Sale section. If so, the word "insane" or any other negative word would not have been used by me. As always, I would have complemented the condition of the item(which I did) and stated "good luck with your sale".
If those speakers happen to be yours, or a known acquaintance, I am deeply, sincerely, shamefully, sorry for my comment.
Bill
So you're telling me you conduct yourself by living a double standard guided by assumptions?
Cornwalls Rule - What else fills a big room at this price?
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Which is it?
'know nothing' or 'well aware'?
or trolling?