Show me your ****(embly), and let me get in your guts baby!

dorokusai

MW SWL9 Tube Pre- Amp

mhardy6647

umm, I happen to have a somewhat fuzzy 'before' photo of the innards of my EICO HF-81 handy...
(i.e., before the ceramic coupling caps and those other nasty, waxy caps were replaced).

Don't have a rear-view of this particular amp, but I can provide a full frontal 'after' shot -- not the prettiest face, but a dang fine sounding amplifier nonetheless.

Mike682

Good idea!

Here's some of my new Carver amp that I just bought from MSkeezer:

Skynut

My **** is way dirtier than all yours. Maybe I'll remember next time I rearange my system.

jtgranby

http://www.rogueaudio.com/images/enlarged/99INSIDE.JPG
This is what I have coming this week.

JT

jtgranby

The pic of the guts.
JT

dorokusai

Jaguar Blue Chassis

Beardog03 has a Cary Integrated Amplifier with a Jaguar Green chassis...do a search if you're interested in pictures.

Everyone - Great pics! Keep 'em coming...show me more Audio T&A

Polkitup2

Outlaw 1070 guts

audiobliss

Since I just moved my Parasound in for preamp duty and moved out my Yamaha to another system, I thought I'd open her up and clean her out. Snapped some pictures while I was in there. No front fascia or rear end pics, though.

dorokusai

Thanks AGAIN, to those folks willing to spin a tip. If you don't "pop the top" on your gear, you might want to look into another hobby.

I live for this, and everything gets an eyeball...if it's a really cool piece, I take some pics. Unless there is a sticker stating "Warranty Void" or some shite, break it open and take a look.

You should be involved in what you own, plain and simple. If you don't, you're lame.

Mike682

dorokusai wrote:

Thanks AGAIN, to those folks willing to spin a tip. If you don't "pop the top" on your gear, you might want to look into another hobby.

I live for this, and everything gets an eyeball...if it's a really cool piece, I take some pics. Unless there is a sticker stating "Warranty Void" or some shite, break it open and take a look.

You should be involved in what you own, plain and simple. If you don't, you're lame.

I agree 100%. When I first look at gear, I always take a peek through the grills. After I purchase, I'll set it up, listen for a few, then off comes the top.

Look for pics of my HK AVR soon...

disneyjoe7

Doro, Question about your Cary SPL-98 pre amp. First how do you like it? Second what is the chip with a crystal a remote pickup / controller? I consider buying a SPL-98 Pre amp myself one day

SCompRacer

BAT VK-3i.

SCompRacer

Pacific Valve & Electric Company L's Audio A28. They used to sell these as components/kits but those pages are gone now. Not a bad starter tube pre amp. With remote.

This belongs to Normanality and he let me use it when I was between pre amps.

audiobliss

That does look like a nice lil' tube pre...with a remote.

Normanality

Here's another nice little basic tube linestage. No remote though.

Audcom AP100

Normanality

The innards of an Innersound 300 WPC active crossover bass amp.

Nice design, well constructed.

audiobliss

While I had my IC's off, trying to put them on correctly, I figured I might as well open everything up for a quick look.

The case came off the Parasound P/HP-850 very easily with only 6 screws...especially since they were really loose...ohskigod, you leave all your screws that loose?

Sorry for the poor front and rear pics.

audiobliss

Here are some pics of my Rotel RCD-02. The case on this was quite a bit more finicky, as you had to slide it off toward the back, and it fit kinda tight. Not difficult, though...just more difficult than the Parasound.

Again, sorry for the poor front and rear shots. And least the shots of the guts came out a lot better.

The little chip that says 'Sony CXP82440A'...what's that for? Is that to control the CD drive, which I assume is Sony? I couldn't find anything on it that I thougth looked like a DAC.

I guess it was made in 2002, eh?

I wonder whose logo that little squigly line is. It's on the main board and the one the analog RCA output jacks are on.

Four guys tested it out/looked over it, huh?

Normanality

Here's a single shot of my VTL 2.5 preamp.
I was a little disappointed in how little is actually inside!
I replaced the original tubes with Mullard CV4003 and Sylvania 6350's.

Very nice detailed sound.

disneyjoe7

audiobliss wrote:

The little chip that says 'Sony CXP82440A'...what's that for? Is that to control the CD drive, which I assume is Sony? I couldn't find anything on it that I thougth looked like a DAC.

Looking at some spec's myself it's a Sony Microcontroller // but looks like it could be driving the display perhaps checking on front panel switches being push or not.

audiobliss

disneyjoe7 wrote:

Looking at some spec's myself it's a Sony Microcontroller // but looks like it could be driving the display perhaps checking on front panel switches being push or not.

Sounds perfectly plausible to me.

faster100

audiobliss wrote:

Sounds perfectly plausible to me.

Myth busted? plausable ?


I need to take some shots of my pas 3 guts.. way to typical though i guess

SCompRacer

Old gear....Adcom GFA-555

SCompRacer

Adcom GFA-5400.

WilliamM2

Denon POA-2400 power amp:

WilliamM2

Rotel RB-951 MkII power amp:

dorokusai

Nice.

dorokusai

I've owned a bunch of Rotel vintage gear and it's cool, but I haven't bought many pieces since owning them originally. The new gear really threw me for a loop, as I really liked the aesthetics and the simplicity of the interface. This is in regards to the RSP-1066...and it's siblings.

They're internally conservative but externally impressive. There is nothing internal that isn't done in the same price bracket but it's miles above generic gear in regards to layout and build quality.

Blah, blah...here's some guts and ****!

del44

Shanling integrated. Got it off audiogon. Pretty clean.