Members potaetoes Posted January 4, 2010 Members Share Posted January 4, 2010 i recently inherited a massive collection of vinyl (and acetate) so i had to get the SL-1200 out of mothballs. hooked it up, fired up the sansui AU-717 and a pair of jim rogers specials... left channel of the amp was cutting out a bunch at first, but it seems to have burned through whatever cobwebs were in there and it's sounding fan-effing-tastic now. a lot of great old audio gear is coming with the records. best part is i'll be bringing home an old tube stereo power amp soon so i can recap it and get running again. it's currently loaded with a quad of mullard EL37s, some telefunken 12ax7s and amperex EF86s... score if they still work! the should... they've been sitting unused for a couple decades. the power amp is just a big metal block with nothing but a power switch, screw terminals and bias/balance fittings - kinda looks like a huge univalve with no knobs and a lot more under the hood - but there's also a separate tube hi-fi preamp, not sure what's in there yet, but it's pretty cool. not that i don't love the sansui, but i think i'd rather use that for monitoring than for playback since it's so surgically clean and uncolored. can't wait to fire up a dozen or so tubes and throw on the johnny cash folsom prison blues record i just unsealed the cellophane wrapper on... anyway... csb i suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Exocaster Posted January 4, 2010 Members Share Posted January 4, 2010 Hella Kickass, Mr. Tuber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members newholland Posted January 4, 2010 Members Share Posted January 4, 2010 well.. i definitely dig it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stevenexp Posted January 4, 2010 Members Share Posted January 4, 2010 320kbs .mp3's through a $150 wal-mart stereo would sound better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LA-Ü-RA Posted January 4, 2010 Members Share Posted January 4, 2010 CSB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members newholland Posted January 4, 2010 Members Share Posted January 4, 2010 320kbs .mp3's through a $150 wal-mart stereo would sound better. says the 18 year old who's never heard proper analog. nor rogers speakers. nor old sansui gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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