You might be asking yourself, what components does Pat have in his listening system? maybe not..but just in case you have some interest. I have posted a few photo’s of some of my systems all “glowing” way cool. Update, I’m in the process of re-arranging my Audio Cave and will have new photos and an update soon!..(Yes finally I’m getting around to new photos of the systems and will post up projected date Sept 30th 2015)..oooops never made it on my updates, big changes coming this year see our FB page for current activity’s: https://www.facebook.com/classictubeaudio/
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- Here we have another view of the two making beautiful music together
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- Yes it is all solid state, but it is one fine tuner..almost as good as my MR-71 McIntosh tube tuner
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- Tube Love, that’s about all you can say…with the lights out in my listening room it doubles as a bright night light and a room heater too!
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- One of my daily drivers. This uses the direct heated 845 tube, look at how bright it is. These tubes run very hot and have well over 1000 volts on the plates and have a full biased idle current of over 60 Ma
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- This near mint McIntosh 1700 receiver is fully featured and a “hybrid” yes the FM stereo tuner is all tube and the pre-amp and outputs are solid state.. they actually sound very good.. I have done a few mod’s to the MPX decoder and the coupling caps in the pre-amp this really opens up the sound
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- collection continued here is a view of rack 2
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- View of display area one in my listening room, classic’s all the way baby!
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- Atma Sphere “Novacron” 100 watt OTL
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- Electro Voice A-20-C “RARE” very unique
I would like to try a pre+amp combo? It would have to be “easy” to use.
I understand that the newer equipment doesn’t have to be biased.
I would be interested in what you would recomend for a beginner.
Regards,
Sherril
Hello,
A few that come to mind for tube beginners would be integrateds from Fisher and Scott. The Fisher x-100B/C x-101’s some models of Fisher have a cathode bias or a type of self bias circuit. But be aware that any self bias type amp from yesteryear will be a design that will somewhat limit the total power output and not perform at optimum. Many of the “bias” adjustable models are really easy to bias and with a little assist and learing it is an easy chore
Happy hunting
hi, I am probably doing something blasphemus to you, but once in awhile I will find a small old tube record player and I try converting it (with little electrical knowledge) to a little guitar amplifier. I remove the cartridge and wire in a 1/4 inch jack. I will use a mag. to ceramic step up. Sometimes I get a lot of60 cycle hum, and some time none. Would you be interested in working on these?
Thank you,
Glenn
Hello Glenn,
I would be happy to look at your project and determine what the a/c hum issue is. They do work well with efficient speakesr for guitar amplifiers
Pat~
Hello Jacob,
I’m not sure what you are asking?.. with the “Y” are you looking for a 1/4″ female end to plug your guitar amp patch cord 1/4″ male end then the other end of the “Y” dongle would have an RCA male connector for plugging into the Fisher? if so would this then only feed one channel either L or R or did you wish to split the signal into two male rca’s to feed both channels at the same time?
Hello Robert,
My fee on average for checking the needs of a component is about an hour of bench time at $ 55.00.. I then provide you an
estimate of the repiars needed parts and labor, als in many cases suggestions and costs for upgrades
Thank, Pat~