Conrad Johnson MV75A-1

RuSsMaN
RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
edited March 2005 in 2 Channel Audio
Please welcome my family's newest member.

75w/ch, quad of 6550 for power. On the front end, a pair of 6FQ7 and a solo 5751. Can't wait to hear her on the Spendors.

Cheers,
Russ
Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    **** end. Had the stock power cord removed, and an IEC dropped in. It has a full cage also, but I like em' naked.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited March 2005
    KICK ****!!!!! Let us know how she sounds. Just a few questions.... Why is there two 'common' connections per channel? Is one with feedback and the other without? Does it only accept 6550 output tubes or is it interchangable with other types. I know a few brands out there let you use different output tubes, just not sure about CJ. Enjoy the new toy.

    Maurice
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  • phuz
    phuz Posts: 2,372
    edited March 2005
    I was just eyeballin one of these on ebay last night. Nice find.

    Are those 1/8" jacks for the speaker outputs?!?!
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    Banana's only.

    Not sure on the two ground outputs Maurice. Maybe I should read the manual?

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,201
    edited March 2005
    Nice score there Russ. Good luck wth her.

    Dan
    Dan
    My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2005
    that is poetry, brother.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • DAGLJAM6
    DAGLJAM6 Posts: 635
    edited March 2005
    Very nice piece Russ.
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited March 2005
    Nice iron Russ, let me know if you ever need to adopt it out.

    I've got room driving my SDAs in my house for such a nice piece.

    Cheers,

    DG
    HT Optoma HD25 LV on 80" DIY Screen, Anthem MRX 300 Receiver, Pioneer Elite BDP 51FD Polk CS350LS, Polk SDA1C, Polk FX300, Polk RT55, Dual EBS Adire Shiva 320watt tuned to 17hz, ICs-DIY Twisted Prs, Speaker-Raymond Cable

    2 Channel Thorens TD 318 Grado ZF1, SACD/CD Marantz 8260, Soundstream/Krell DAC1, Audio Mirror PP1, Odyssey Stratos, ADS L-1290, ICs-DIY Twisted , Speaker-Raymond Cable
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    She won't be going anywhere for a while, for sure. You are going to have to nude mud-wrestle Troy for it though. His CJ woody shows through his chinos.

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited March 2005
    Nude mudwrestling a guy that works in the desert with camel spiders?

    There has got to be an easier way to get ahead in this hobby!:D :D
    HT Optoma HD25 LV on 80" DIY Screen, Anthem MRX 300 Receiver, Pioneer Elite BDP 51FD Polk CS350LS, Polk SDA1C, Polk FX300, Polk RT55, Dual EBS Adire Shiva 320watt tuned to 17hz, ICs-DIY Twisted Prs, Speaker-Raymond Cable

    2 Channel Thorens TD 318 Grado ZF1, SACD/CD Marantz 8260, Soundstream/Krell DAC1, Audio Mirror PP1, Odyssey Stratos, ADS L-1290, ICs-DIY Twisted , Speaker-Raymond Cable
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited March 2005
    Russman...

    Where do you find all this cool stuff..?

    Do you have a magic closet like George Grand (of the Jersey Grands)..?
    Cary SLP-98L F1 DC Pre Amp (Jag Blue)
    Parasound HCA-3500
    Cary Audio V12 amp (Jag Red)
    Polk Audio Xm Reciever (Autographed by THE MAN Himself) :cool:
    Magnum Dynalab MD-102 Analog Tuna
    Jolida JD-100 CDP
    Polk Audio LSi9 Speaks (ebony)
    SVS PC-Ultra Sub
    AQ Bedrock Speaker Cables (Bi-Wired)
    MIT Shotgun S1 I/C`s
    AQ Black Thunder Sub Cables
    PS Audio Plus Power Cords
    Magnum Dynalab ST-2 FM Antenna
    Sanus Cherry wood Speak Stands
    Adona AV45CS3 / 3 Tier Rack (Black /Gold)

    :cool:
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited March 2005
    If he revealed where, he'd never find stuff like that again....you just have to put forth the effort to find these things....and it takes time, legwork, pocket money and travel.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,756
    edited March 2005
    Russ has a magic neighborhood...

    SImilar to Mr. Rogers, except Russ's is much cooler...

    Not near as **** either...except when he gets new/old gear and wants to 'break them in' (ALA, Him and the LSI)

    Very cool find there...
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    Magic closet? What is that?

    Pic 1 of 2, of 4 racks....

    Teac, Fisher, McIntosh, Dynaco, Heathkit, Beard, Polk (mini mons), NAD, Marantz, Pilot, Paradigm....
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    Pic 2 of 2, 4 total racks.

    Marantz, Sansui, Tice Audio, Nakamichi, Dynaco, Scott, Eico....
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    I'm fairly proud of myself. As of this weekend, I can get ONE car in my TWO car garage.

    Dynaco, McIntosh, Kenwood, Scott, Eico, University, Bozak....
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    Garage part deux. Restored Scott 99 mono amps, 15" Signet sub, Mirror Imaged DQ10's, some grunt PSB's...oh, and a pair of Bogen tube mono's I'll get into restoring NEXT month....
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    Blatent McIntosh / Fisher Tube shot. So sue me.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    One of God knows how many boxes of tubes...
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    Oh, on the closet thing. Here is one side of ONE of the closets in the spare bedrooms.

    Clusterfuck of JAN tubes, and vintage drivers. Nothing special, just old Alnico JBL **** mostly.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    Decorating, audio-style.

    I put my extra vintage tube pre's and tunas, that don't fit on the 4 racks on display with the other bric-a-brac.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    Gratuitous Knight tube mono FM rig shot...

    18w, on the rare RCA 6973 tubes. Destined for a single corner horn.

    The two pictures, both dateline 1974, are me on the beach in Florida with Grandpa Gates.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    What a mess.

    Nakamichi Dragon, Pioneer Tube Receiver, and B&O table all in box. I should probably pick up the CJ pieces off the floor - I'll get around to it. Telefunken Tube mono FM/Turntable console, and an Audire amp getting ready for shipment.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    I'd take more pictures of the actual rigs I use and the rest of the 'stuff', but I'm drinking fairly heavily, and have lost interest at this point.

    I guess you could call my 10x10 storage unit that is packed to gills my REAL magic closet - but I don't have a photograph of it. I don't know, my mother (God Bless her soul) may beg to differ. I have a 11x12 bedroom at her house, and half of HER garage full up too.

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,756
    edited March 2005
    JEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ

    That is insane dude...

    Your the sickest of the sick
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited March 2005
    I would take my pants off, but they are already off.....and I'm chatting with Russ via IM's....yea baby!
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited March 2005
    nice!

    so, how much is the Naka, Russ? avail? curious..
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2005
    Which one?

    That Stasis Receiver, the Dragon deck? The grunt CDP? Pretty much everything in those pics is ready to move.

    Let me ask you this kind sir. What is it going to take to put you in this NAK today?

    Cheers,
    Rooster
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited March 2005
    :eek: :eek: :eek: Seriously, I don't know what to say. BEAUTIFUL pics and gear! I knew Russ have a lot of stuff but damn!

    Well, I call dibs if Russ finds any 7199 tubes in that big tube box:D.

    Maurice
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited March 2005
    Russ, the Dragon caught my eyes. The answer to your second question: it depends on what's the condition. thanks!
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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