NAD 3020, though it’s relegated to use in my office connected to an old iPad at work these days. Mine is 1980 vintage.
The amp I use the most is a NAD 3240PE (‘89 vintage) ‘cos it’s connected to my turntable and CD player in my study.
Both have been rebuilt by me in the last few years, so are in pretty good shape.
The amp I use the most is a NAD 3240PE (‘89 vintage) ‘cos it’s connected to my turntable and CD player in my study.
Both have been rebuilt by me in the last few years, so are in pretty good shape.
I was at a buddy's place not too long ago and I noticed the music was making me a little hot under the collar. That's when I noticed his tube amp sitting behind the couch I was on.
Converted a 1964? Schober recital organ power amp from germanium regulator zener to silicon when I bought it in 2016. Schober was a diy organ you bought one board at a time - PCB board or case wood board. Showroom in NYC, ads in hobbiest magazines. Original builder had a little cotton filled box full of dead germanium transistors that came with the project. I bought it from his heirs who don't play organ. I use the schober amp at my summer camp trailer, to boost 1 watt FM radio into a Peavey wedge monitor at 30 watts. It has a refrigerator defrost type fan blowing on the output transistors, silicon pnp's. Rather noisy. Replaced the amp in the organ in town with a Peavey MMA-8150 mono mixer amp that can mix the organ tone generator or a mono FM radio into the organ speaker.
One of the 12 tone generator boards D#, is dead. Replacing GE oscillator transistor with SI didn't help. May be something wrong with the 3 terminal coil. Tried to buy a LCR-ESR meter this summer, CH-500 but it disappeared off ebay right before I had the money saved up. Lots of ****ese copies I won't buy.
One of the 12 tone generator boards D#, is dead. Replacing GE oscillator transistor with SI didn't help. May be something wrong with the 3 terminal coil. Tried to buy a LCR-ESR meter this summer, CH-500 but it disappeared off ebay right before I had the money saved up. Lots of ****ese copies I won't buy.
Wow,. You are the Mcgiver of retrofit repairs. Glad you have enough interest in that stuff. It takes alot of forethought and insight to bring equipment worthy of repair back to life. Awesome Music lives on
Kenwood KA-36, 1988.
Several Philips 'Powerhouse' integrated cassette/tuner/amps, with mostly Japanese silicon, late 80s to early 90s.
And a Sansui B1000 from around that time.
All work the Philips sets are in regular use, the Kenwood and the Sansui are a bit loud....so in storage.
Sansui unit is 120 W / channel, cinema loud...
Several Philips 'Powerhouse' integrated cassette/tuner/amps, with mostly Japanese silicon, late 80s to early 90s.
And a Sansui B1000 from around that time.
All work the Philips sets are in regular use, the Kenwood and the Sansui are a bit loud....so in storage.
Sansui unit is 120 W / channel, cinema loud...
1963 LEAK STEREO 30. Germanium, beautiful sound, maybe the oldest solid state integrated stereo amp here.
The same Jimi had in his London flat. The same Barret had in his house. I changed all the 'lytics and trimmer pots. Mine has the classic balance pot that works in reverse. I've plenty of amps but always end up using this one when my brain needs vintage sound with no heat problems in the summer time.
The same Jimi had in his London flat. The same Barret had in his house. I changed all the 'lytics and trimmer pots. Mine has the classic balance pot that works in reverse. I've plenty of amps but always end up using this one when my brain needs vintage sound with no heat problems in the summer time.
I was hoping something like this would show up. 👍 I've owned a few 60s Germanium amps and enjoyed them.
Marantz MA-9S2, two of them for stereo of course.
https://www.stereophile.com/cedia2007/090707marantz/index.html
https://www.whathifi.com/marantz/ma-9s2/review
Some other amps here too but haven't used any of them for a fair while.
https://www.stereophile.com/cedia2007/090707marantz/index.html
https://www.whathifi.com/marantz/ma-9s2/review
Some other amps here too but haven't used any of them for a fair while.