This joint needs some more vintage hifi

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  • Trying to sneak these back into the bedroom...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    the critters or the electronics? ;)
  • the ole RT8's still have it. :)
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    That is a cute one!

    The soiled state Sherwoods, like their vacuum tube predecessors, were very nice little receivers -- then (and even still now) totally off the marketplace's radar. They sound good and they have remarkable tuner sections.

    In fairness, I don't know about the little S-7010, but the ones I've owned and/or heard are pretty remarkable little hidden gems. They're cute, too.

    This is an S-7210 that I passed along, some years back, to our dear, departed friend George Grand. I'm not even sure that he wanted it, but he got it! :)

    11002954806_f1e3080ebe_b.jpgDSC_0235 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
    11003018574_956e271c8d_b.jpgDSC_0236 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
    11002859045_df76dd7cce_b.jpgDSC_0239 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

    ... and an S-7100A that passed through a while back.

    11003075483_896f50b495_b.jpgSherwoodS7100A by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

    (these photos are probably re-runs in this thread... sorry!)

  • I had the top Sherwood in the 70's. Got it at Sears.
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    One big ss Sherwood passed through here; an S-7910. I probably should've kept it... but I actually sold that one some years back.

    14482619842_beee8c03c4_b.jpgSherwood flash by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,652
    Mark that s7210 is very similar to the s7010. From what i read up the small Sherwoods were pretty reasonable priced & still having the appearance of the vintage era. It is light as a feather but operates & sounds pretty decent for i think it was around 15wpc. I will send it offf on its way for someone else to enjoy.
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  • cortico
    cortico Posts: 587
    edited September 2016
    My favorite set, a 1974 Marantz 2270 fully restored, Pioneer PL530 turntable, Parasound CD changer and Parasound DAC hiding on the bottom 6164bzbu9wyb.jpeg
  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited September 2016
    Very nice system cortico. I like the rotory dial phone too!
    Main Rig:
    Krell KAV 250a biamped to mid/highs
    Parasound HCA1500A biamped to lows
    Nakamichi EC100 Active xover
    MIT exp 1 ic's
    Perreaux SA33 class A preamp
    AQ kingcobra ic's
    OPPO 83 CDP
    Lehmann audio black cube SE phono pre, Audioquest phono wire (ITA1/1)
    Denon DP-1200 TT. AToc9ML MC cart.
    Monster HTS 3600 power conditioner
    ADS L1590/2 Biamped
    MIT exps2 speaker cable
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    edited September 2016
    I poke a lot of fun @ the Superscope-era Marantz receivers... but the 2270 is actually a very special piece of solid state equipment. It's one of the truly good ones.
  • cortico
    cortico Posts: 587
    I agree, the 2270 is a 40lbs beauty beast! Sounds better than most people would expect from an old piece of equipment with 70 watts, 7Hz to 50kHz and a 0.3% total harmonic distortion.

    The Marantz1060 it's equally nice, this little 30W amp sound different from the 2270 but are really pleasing to my ears as well...

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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,877
    I don't remember if I posted about the Boston Acoustics A200's I picked up in February. So far I refoamed the woofers and tackled updating my 1st larger crossover. That was the easy part. The cabinets were a terrible mess. I filled in all the damaged areas and sanded them down. I was unable to get sharp corners so I finally decided to paint them but I couldn't find any black paint LOL. I was in a small local shop where the woman did painted furniture and she used chalk paint and then a wax designed to go over the paint. It was a very nice finish. So I picked up a small bottle of copper metallic and the wax. For the front I bought a black carbon fiber wannabe. Here's a couple of pics.

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    This looks better in person

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    looks good to me from here...
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    At this point in my life, I can usually resist middlin', massmarket 1970s soiled state hifi hardware.

    Usually.

    29462356253_76c83039f3_b.jpgDSC_5978 (2) by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

    This one followed me home from NEARC a week ago -- finally got around to trying it today.

    I've always admired the aesthetics of these (and most Luxman hardware, right up to the present day).
  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,877
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    At this point in my life, I can usually resist middlin', massmarket 1970s soiled state hifi hardware.

    Usually.

    29462356253_76c83039f3_b.jpgDSC_5978 (2) by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

    This one followed me home from NEARC a week ago -- finally got around to trying it today.

    I've always admired the aesthetics of these (and most Luxman hardware, right up to the present day).

    Very nice they do make beautiful gear. :)
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,877
    Speaking of gear following you home. B)

    I won this at an auction yesterday and picked it up this afternoon. I ordered a new belt and still need to see if the cartridge ohm's out. The stylus was busted off.


    Yamaha YP-710

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    Neat -- I don't ever recall seeing that particular model in the... umm... flesh (believe it or not)!
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    I have a nice pair of very vintage JBL 275 compression drivers mounted on H5040 horns (the "Metregon" horns) that I found on the swap pile at the Harvard (MA) town dump on a beautiful Fourth of July morning, years ago.

    I (finally) dug 'em out last night and substituted them for the Fostex T90A supertweeters atop the Duplexes (using the same nominally ca. 10 kHz first order, padded XO).

    No tuning has yet occurred, but initial results were very promising indeed.

    30048926642_0beca53d1e_b.jpgDSC_6117 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

    Nothing but the finest, cryo-treated, OFC clipleads, of course.

    Why the fug is it that no two hifi components have the same type of connectors on 'em? These utterly massive and (otherwise) beautifully made JBL drivers have little spring-loaded connectors that would have looked at home on a mid-1970s Radio Shack 'monkey coffin'. Thus the clipleads.

    30055252362_7bafbc89ba_b.jpgDSC_6122 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
    30055252732_3f26c4fabf_b.jpgDSC_6121a by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    Boy do I have a pair of drivers to go with those. 123A 12 inch bass drivers out of the L100 centry's. LOL
    Main Rig:
    Krell KAV 250a biamped to mid/highs
    Parasound HCA1500A biamped to lows
    Nakamichi EC100 Active xover
    MIT exp 1 ic's
    Perreaux SA33 class A preamp
    AQ kingcobra ic's
    OPPO 83 CDP
    Lehmann audio black cube SE phono pre, Audioquest phono wire (ITA1/1)
    Denon DP-1200 TT. AToc9ML MC cart.
    Monster HTS 3600 power conditioner
    ADS L1590/2 Biamped
    MIT exps2 speaker cable
  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,877
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    A few better pics :)
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    I think Randy is trying to catch up with our good Doctor!
    2 ch- Polk CRS+ * Vincent SA-31MK Preamp * Vincent Sp-331 Amp * Marantz SA8005 SACD * Project Xperience Classic TT * Sumiko Blue Point #2 MC cartridge

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    I think he's already well surpassed me in the 1970s hifi department... except for the little Yamaha ghetto, my collection of '70s stuff is mostly junk.
  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,652
    I wont say whats in my closets :) .. I played around with the Heresy's & i am enjoying them on tubes right now on some classical music-its not to bad at all. They seem to sound a bit better than the 5a w/peerless at lower/mid volumes than im use to. Threw the Marantz on the 5a's & what a power horse of a Marantz. Its got a different sound IMO from the 2252b model. Not power wise because the 2240 is powerful enough. It just seems to me the 2252b has a better sound quality. No idea but my ears notice a difference
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,652
    JBL J216 Monitor's.. Not a bad sounding cheap speaker in their day. Going to my brothers set up drbdal10hofy.jpeg
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited October 2016
    boston1450 wrote: »
    JBL J216 Monitor's.. Not a bad sounding cheap speaker in their day. Going to my brothers set up drbdal10hofy.jpeg

    I've never seen a JBL that looks like that! Has such drivers? Seems like it's a home version of the JBL 216 Pro (different woofer and I believe tweeter as well). Some of those home versions were OK. The most infamous being the JBL L/t series. I own a set of JBL L80ts that are permanently on tubes, home versions of the STUDIO 4410 or 4410a? You'd be surprised how good these sound on a tube integrated. I know JBL doesn't get a lot of love around here, and frankly, they have produced a lot of consumer garbage in their day, but not all of it.

    I took some old JBL bookies and replaced the dead Titanium drivers with some soft dome Vifas from PExpress, gave them to my daughter for her dorm along with a cheap Sherwood receiver to power them. And now all her classmates can say is "where did you get THOSE speakers!" Even I am surprised by how much they sound like AJs Pioneers-not exactly, but very nice warm detailed highs and good low end for a two way 5". Of course they probably retailed for more than a couple of hundred back in the late '80s, early '90s?

    I think your brother will have fun with those, Randy!

    We now return you to our regularly scheduled and far less prolix programming! Everyone breathes a sigh of relief as cnh exits the building! lol
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,789
    That's why we love you, C.
  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,652
    cnh wrote: »
    boston1450 wrote: »
    JBL J216 Monitor's.. Not a bad sounding cheap speaker in their day. Going to my brothers set up drbdal10hofy.jpeg

    I've never seen a JBL that looks like that! Has such drivers? Seems like it's a home version of the JBL 216 Pro (different woofer and I believe tweeter as well). Some of those home versions were OK. The most infamous being the JBL L/t series. I own a set of JBL L80ts that are permanently on tubes, home versions of the STUDIO 4410 or 4410a? You'd be surprised how good these sound on a tube integrated. I know JBL doesn't get a lot of love around here, and frankly, they have produced a lot of consumer garbage in their day, but not all of it.

    I took some old JBL bookies and replaced the dead Titanium drivers with some soft dome Vifas from PExpress, gave them to my daughter for her dorm along with a cheap Sherwood receiver to power them. And now all her classmates can say is "where did you get THOSE speakers!" Even I am surprised by how much they sound like AJs Pioneers-not exactly, but very nice warm detailed highs and good low end for a two way 5". Of course they probably retailed for more than a couple of hundred back in the late '80s, early '90s?

    I think your brother will have fun with those, Randy!

    We now return you to our regularly scheduled and far less prolix programming! Everyone breathes a sigh of relief as cnh exits the building! lol
    Great that your daughter is enjoying them Cnh. You can do alot to some speakers & make them sound great for a few modifications that dont break the wallet. I come across alot of weird items from storage units & i get my fair share of listening to a variety of vintage audio. I have set up all 3 kiddos & all my neices & nephews & bros & sisters. It brings me happiness to make audio more enjoyable to them & when i visit i get to see & hear it again :)
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