Looky what followed me home yesterday :)
mhardy6647
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from the dump in our daughter & son-in-law's little town.
Works fine other than a couple of dirty controls that need cleaning.
Yeah, yeah, I know...utterly obsolete... but hard to pass up for the bargain price of -- umm, well -- not any [price].
I'm like that -- y'all know that.
Just a quick grab photo avec flash -- it really doesn't look that bad and I haven't cleaned it up. I am too freaking lazy to clean something before I know it works, unless it is horrifically filthy -- and this unit wasn't. I did, in full disclosure, wipe the dust off the top.
Works fine other than a couple of dirty controls that need cleaning.
Yeah, yeah, I know...utterly obsolete... but hard to pass up for the bargain price of -- umm, well -- not any [price].
I'm like that -- y'all know that.
Just a quick grab photo avec flash -- it really doesn't look that bad and I haven't cleaned it up. I am too freaking lazy to clean something before I know it works, unless it is horrifically filthy -- and this unit wasn't. I did, in full disclosure, wipe the dust off the top.
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Nice. I believe @Tony M has one of these or a similar one.
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Nice. I believe @Tony M has one of these or a similar one.
now, why doesn't that surprise me?
I am listening to it now -- I've actually got some more interesting amplification to be evaluating, but I am kinda stuck listening to this monstrosity ( and a monstrosity it is: all 41 lbs of it -- I looked it up!). I am, unfortunately, still a sucka for Yamaha.
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Nice, can't pass up "free" as long as it works...Remember, when you're running from something, you're running to something...-me
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Yeah, I (still) can't.
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probably more like four nines
but sometimes I get a hankerin' to hear something different.
Does Jay Leno drive his cars?
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Along that line... these followed me home this weekend, too.
These won't be freebies, though.
PP 6L6
OPTs are below decks.
They've got panache.
And heft.
I smoke tested them tonight. They power up just fine, but they're not passing a signal, so I am gonna have to do some sleuthing.
Not tonight though.
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Wowsa @mhardy6647"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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yeah, well...
those weren't from the swap pile at the dump.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »yeah, well...
those weren't from the swap pile at the dump.
Doesn’t matter. Still a WOW!
My dream is to get some Baldwin Tube monoblock tube amps..."....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963) -
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There you go, then.
That was my belief/understanding.
A few pieces here are shelf queens, but most work fine and get dragged out and used now and again.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Along that line... these followed me home this weekend, too.
These won't be freebies, though.
PP 6L6
OPTs are below decks.
They've got panache.
And heft.
I smoke tested them tonight. They power up just fine, but they're not passing a signal, so I am gonna have to do some sleuthing.
Not tonight though.
Ya! now you got my attention...Aaron
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Along that line... these followed me home this weekend, too.
These won't be freebies, though.
PP 6L6
OPTs are below decks.
They've got panache.
And heft.
I smoke tested them tonight. They power up just fine, but they're not passing a signal, so I am gonna have to do some sleuthing.
Not tonight though.
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Hey, that Yami doesn't appear to have the variable loudness control. No wonder they tossed it.HT- Samsung PN50B860/Integra DTR 30.3/Rt55 Fronts
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It sure doesn'tEasy Runnin wrote: »Hey, that Yami doesn't appear to have the variable loudness control. No wonder they tossed it.
It does have the separate Rec Out selector, though
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Along that line... these followed me home this weekend, too.
These won't be freebies, though.
PP 6L6
OPTs are below decks.
They've got panache.
And heft.
I smoke tested them tonight. They power up just fine, but they're not passing a signal, so I am gonna have to do some sleuthing.
Not tonight though.
Ya! now you got my attention...
Mine, too Each one weighs close to as much as that big black box Yamaha.
Tried 'em last night & neither passed a signal -- so -- I gots to do some sleuthing.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »mhardy6647 wrote: »Along that line... these followed me home this weekend, too.
These won't be freebies, though.
PP 6L6
OPTs are below decks.
They've got panache.
And heft.
I smoke tested them tonight. They power up just fine, but they're not passing a signal, so I am gonna have to do some sleuthing.
Not tonight though.
Ya! now you got my attention...
Mine, too Each one weighs close to as much as that big black box Yamaha.
Tried 'em last night & neither passed a signal -- so -- I gots to do some sleuthing.
Since you paid for that gear I hope you didn’t expect it to work.
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. -
It is "on approval" at the moment.
I did expect it to work, or at least not to not work the way it does. Or is it doesn't?
