Daddy Dee Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=73369&item=5785687203&rd=1 Never have seen one of these on Ebay. just a heads up on an interesting looking piece of gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Do they throw in the "Hello Kitty" portable CD player as a compliment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Mobley Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 you can't see it in the pics but that thing has fini written all over it. I don't know about the CD player but that link to the previous auction for a similar item goes to an auction by adickson in Colorado Springs. He's the guy I got my $1075 '60 Khorns from. The guy is a Hammond organ freak, has a industrial warehouse unit full of them, stacked three high. I've never seen so many tube organs and tube amps in one place in my life. Field coil drivers laying all over the place, etc. Good guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Blacksmith Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 For the record, guys, don't post anything for sale in Long Beach Ca. IT IS JUST TOO TEMPTING!!!!!! I work in Long Beach and most days I would throw a bid of $155 on that thing and see what happens but this month we bought the projector for the HT, had a $800 repair bill for the cars A/C, had insurance payments for 2 cars come due and I have missed nearly a week of work with a cold and now you throw this in my FACE! I will resist, MUST resist, will sleep in the shop unless I resist! If anyone wants to buy this thing, I will pickup and pack for shipment for you. Just let me know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 ---------------- On 7/1/2005 1:19:39 AM mike stehr wrote: Do they throw in the "Hello Kitty" portable CD player as a compliment? ---------------- I was wondering about that. Suppose it has aux jacks? You go Fini! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnBob Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Reminds me of a Fisher console I worked on long ago. The lady who owned it said it smelled of burning rubber and had started blowing fuses. I took the back off and discovered the turntable mat on the flip-up Garrard had fallen off and landed on the tube amp beneath it, melting into a landscape Salvador Dali would have appreciated. A little elbow grease, new tubes (and a new mat) and she was back in business. Pretty good sounding console too - a little soft on the top, but not bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott0527 Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 ---------------- On 7/1/2005 8:10:44 AM Cal Blacksmith wrote: If anyone wants to buy this thing, I will pickup and pack for shipment for you. Just let me know ---------------- I might take you up on that. If I would happen to win it. I'd even let you play with it for a couple of months if you wanted to. It's a nice little collectors peice. Although I don't imagine it would sound all that great with those speakers. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 The woodgrain on this piece is just beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazytubepower Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 I'm the high bidder...if I am to win i'll be the only 15 year old i know with tubes I'm in the LA area so i can just pick it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 Crazy, Hope you get it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazytubepower Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 thanks i hope i do too...that would be so cool....it's a beautiful peice, wonder how it sounds...anyone here know how vintage fisher sounds? Thanks CTP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Check out the tube layout's output tubes. It appears to show ELL80/6UM8 for output tubes, and indicates that each tube is push-pull left, and push-pull right. I have no clue about ELL/6UM8, but I'm guessing it's two output tubes in one glass envelope, like a (6DZ7?) which is two 6BQ5's in one bottle the size of a 6L6. I thought it was a single-ended amp until I noticed that. The veneer on that thing is cool, it's kind of a novel item IMO.... Yup, ELL80(6HU8) is a double pentode output tube good for 3 watts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 CTP, To my ears the vintage Fisher sound has more warmth than Scott gear, maybe smoother, too. I haven't heard this tube before, as Mike has discussed above. The speakers on a unit like this are built around some compromises, for size and portability. The integrated amplifier, perhaps also. My expectation would be that it would sound all round quite good, considering those engineering choices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott0527 Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Go get it Crazytube. If you would mount the Dual I offered ya, in place of that Garrard, you'd have a nice mini tooob system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 Well it went for $103.50 Last week or so, one went for $295 and it wasn't in as good of shape as this! Someone got a good deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 ---------------- On 7/1/2005 9:54:06 AM CaptnBob wrote: Reminds me of a Fisher console I worked on long ago. The lady who owned it said it smelled of burning rubber and had started blowing fuses... ...a little soft on the top, but not bad. ---------------- The console, or the lady? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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