I should know better

oldrocker
oldrocker Posts: 2,590
edited May 2014 in The Clubhouse
While doing a house today, this couple had some stuff in their basement.
MCS 3223 receiver one light is out on the face.
MCS 3536 cassette deck
MCS 6601 turntable needs a new stylus.
2 MCS speakers

Definately not of any quality but for $50.00 I figured what the heck. Goofey thing is after I gave him the money, here comes his wife with all the original manuals. She thought they bought this stuff in 78 or 79.
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  • dkfreebird
    dkfreebird Posts: 1,186
    edited May 2014
    Maybe not the best quality we know now but as a 16 year old sitting in my bedroom listening to Ted Nugent Free For All album I was in heaven with that receiver,turntable and speakers.Got that for Christmas one year and it was awesome.
    2 Channel
    Polk 1.2tl's Modded with dreadnought
    Musical Fidelity M6Si
    North Star Intenso Dac
    Auralic Aries Mini Streamer
    Oppo 103
    Pangea PC
    Wireworld Equinox 7 interconnects
    Wireworld Equinox 7 Speaker Cables and Jumpers

    Backups 2.3tl, Crs+ pin/blade with stands.Monitor 5 peerless,Monitor 4 peerless,Polk R200,McCormack Dna 0.5 Deluxe McCormack Dna 1,Dared Sl 2000A,Dayens Ampino Rogue Magnum 66 pre
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,673
    edited May 2014
    Great price IIRC dont those turntables look like Technic tables kinda ?
    ..
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    edited May 2014
    I kinda remember being 16
    Been running some old Scorpians for a while now. Not the worst sounding lil setup I've ever heard. I think the polks help quite a bit...
    dkfreebird wrote: »
    Maybe not the best quality we know now but as a 16 year old sitting in my bedroom listening to Ted Nugent Free For All album I was in heaven with that receiver,turntable and speakers.Got that for Christmas one year and it was awesome.
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    edited May 2014
    Your right, been looking up info on TT's, there are some similar looking Techic's that were made. I just couldn't pass it up on this stuff, besides been kicking around the getting back into vinyl for a while now.
    boston1450 wrote: »
    Great price IIRC dont those turntables look like Technic tables kinda ?
    Hey, your from Boston I see, what would you charge me for some REAL lobsters packed in ice then shipped to IN?
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited May 2014
    dkfreebird wrote: »
    Maybe not the best quality we know now but as a 16 year old sitting in my bedroom listening to Ted Nugent Free For All

    While I think the "The Nuge" has turned into a right-wing psycho, I recently re-bought that, and his debut album, "Ted Nugent". While I hated giving him royalty money, I have loved some of those tunes since the 70s.
    Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
    Sony XA-5400ES SACD; Pass XP-22 pre; X600.5 amps
    Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers; SPOD spikes

    Shunyata Triton v3/Typhon QR on source, Denali 2000 (2) on amps
    Shunyata Sigma XLR analog ICs, Sigma speaker cables
    Shunyata Sigma HC (2), Sigma Analog, Sigma Digital, Z Anaconda (3) power cables

    Mapleshade Samson V.3 four shelf solid maple rack, Micropoint brass footers
    Three 20 amp circuits.
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  • dkfreebird
    dkfreebird Posts: 1,186
    edited May 2014
    Meatloaf singer together is probably one of my favorites.Still a fan of his too
    2 Channel
    Polk 1.2tl's Modded with dreadnought
    Musical Fidelity M6Si
    North Star Intenso Dac
    Auralic Aries Mini Streamer
    Oppo 103
    Pangea PC
    Wireworld Equinox 7 interconnects
    Wireworld Equinox 7 Speaker Cables and Jumpers

    Backups 2.3tl, Crs+ pin/blade with stands.Monitor 5 peerless,Monitor 4 peerless,Polk R200,McCormack Dna 0.5 Deluxe McCormack Dna 1,Dared Sl 2000A,Dayens Ampino Rogue Magnum 66 pre
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,755
    edited May 2014
    oldrocker wrote: »
    I kinda remember being 16

    LOL......I hear ya.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    edited May 2014
    Been a week or so now monkeying with this lil thing. I have one face light out I need to replace. Gonne take it back apart and shoot some pics as I'm not sure how to do this and will appreciate any direction from those much smarter than me.

    The manual Amplifier section says: RMS/watts @ 8 ohms 40-20 Khz is 23 watts per channel. Funny how the R11's make 23 watts seem bigger that that number.
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    edited May 2014
    Some pics of the burnt out light.
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    edited May 2014
    Not much meter action on these either. Can't tell if they have seperate lights.
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    edited May 2014
    Oops, blurry pic. Sorry guys...
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    edited May 2014
    Damn, and on top of all that, I just posted all this to the wrong page, should of been on the techincal page.
    My apologies..
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,693
    edited May 2014
    take bulb out and get a good picture of it and I'll hit up my FM TUNER INFO group they'll know where to get bulbs haven't let me down so far.
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  • oldmodman
    oldmodman Posts: 740
    edited May 2014
    Discrete components and wires? I remember those.

    The tiny bulbs were called "grain of wheat" bulbs and I used to have to replace them all every few years in all my Marantz stuff.

    Today I would consider replacing all the bulbs with colored LEDs.
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