Modded Dynaco PAS Tube Preamp UGLY & CHEAP!!!

RuSsMaN
RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
edited October 2010 in For Sale (FS) Classifieds
$100 to your door.

The worlds best sounding, ugliest Dynaco PAS preamp out there. Sounds AMAZING, I just don't like looking at it anymore! All tone controls and switches were removed, and new dual mono volume control pots installed. You still have use of all inputs, including phono, along with the power switch. New caps in the power supply.

It's amazing how good these old Dynaco's can sound, once you get all the extra garbage out of there. Sold in full working order, as photographed - 2 matched pair of high test GE tubes installed.

What are you waiting for? Slap it in your own chassis, or keep her as a sleeper like I did! Paypal is a GO.

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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  • HB27
    HB27 Posts: 1,518
    edited August 2010
    Someone should grab this while you can. These sound fantastic with the tone controls bypassed.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,502
    edited August 2010
    Had one of these bone stock a year or so ago and it sounded simply amazing (with orignal Dynaco tubes that are actually Telefunken's). I think I paid $180 and sold it a few months later for $235 to a guy in Singapore.

    Dang, $100 shipped is a smokin' bargain and if I had the space I would add this to my collection.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited August 2010
    And just like that, she's gone.....
    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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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited August 2010
    dang dang dang!! this would have been great :(
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2010
    The Agon guy never came through, this is still here if someone wants it.....

    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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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited October 2010
    hmm, how many inputs/outputs?
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2010
    5 inputs, phono stage, tape loop, and 1 set of outputs.
    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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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited October 2010
    Nice straight forward layout. I wish I had 100 beans.
    GLWTS
    Please. Please contact me a ben62670 @ yahoo.com. Make sure to include who you are, and you are from Polk so I don't delete your email. Also I am now physically unable to work on any projects. If you need help let these guys know. There are many people who will help if you let them know where you are.
    Thanks
    Ben
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  • ViperZ
    ViperZ Posts: 2,046
    edited October 2010
    I am still using my PAS-3 with two ST-70s, and it's an amazing little preamp. Good luck with the sale!
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2010
    How many beans you got? ;)
    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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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited October 2010
    Not enough. I am under a very strict budget right now.
    Please. Please contact me a ben62670 @ yahoo.com. Make sure to include who you are, and you are from Polk so I don't delete your email. Also I am now physically unable to work on any projects. If you need help let these guys know. There are many people who will help if you let them know where you are.
    Thanks
    Ben
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2010
    I hear you broham.
    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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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited October 2010
    Just one input then eh?
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited October 2010
    AWW i had a 100 bucks sitting in pp.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2010
    Yeah, 1 OUTPUT, 5 plus phono and tape inputs. A quad of matched GE 12ax7,.Tungsol rectifier. Its a tube preamp for a Franklin, what else can I say.
    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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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited October 2010
    That's a great deal, good luck!
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,358
    edited October 2010
    I will take it, PM coming for PayPal info.

    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited October 2010
    This looks so cool in its present condition
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  • BuckeyeTim
    BuckeyeTim Posts: 483
    edited October 2010
    Crap. 5 minutes too late. If Snow changes his mind I'll take it.
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,358
    edited October 2010
    BuckeyeTim wrote: »
    Crap. 5 minutes too late. If Snow changes his mind I'll take it.
    2 late money has allready been sent, If I decide to part with it though you will get dibs. BTW I found another NOS pair of tubes for your buffer I will send them when I get a chance.

    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 18,069
    edited October 2010
    Would be a fun project for building a new chassis.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,502
    edited October 2010
    BuckeyeTim wrote: »
    Crap. 5 minutes too late . . .

    Yep, me too. I PM'd to find out what tubes were involved and by the time I got back to the forum it was too late. My un-modded one sounded great so I can only imagine how good this little diamond in the rough sounds.
    TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »
    Would be a fun project for building a new chassis.

    With your skills a new faceplate could be fashioned in a blink of the eye !
    VTL ST50 w/mods / RCA6L6GC / TlfnknECC801S
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 w/mods
    TT Conrad Johnson Sonographe SG3 Oak / Sumiko LMT / Grado Woodbody Platinum / Sumiko PIB2 / The Clamp
    Musical Fidelity A1 CDPro/ Bada DD-22 Tube CDP / Conrad Johnson SD-22 CDP
    Tuners w/mods Kenwood KT5020 / Fisher KM60
    MF x-DAC V8, HAInfo NG27
    Herbies Ti-9 / Vibrapods / MIT Shotgun AC1 IEC's / MIT Shotgun 2 IC's / MIT Shotgun 2 Speaker Cables
    PS Audio Cryo / PowerPort Premium Outlets / Exact Power EP15A Conditioner
    Walnut SDA 2B TL /Oak SDA SRS II TL (Sonicaps/Mills/Cardas/Custom SDA ICs / Dynamat Extreme / Larry's Rings/ FSB-2 Spikes
    NAD SS rigs w/mods
    GIK panels
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  • Vette C6.r
    Vette C6.r Posts: 1,560
    edited October 2010
    You can also upgrade the boards to make them really sing.

    http://www.tubes4hifi.com/

    Those things can be modded to the hilt.
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,358
    edited October 2010
    I am really looking forward to hearing this pre I had a PAS 3 years ago and am sorry I got rid of it, if it sounds as nice as I think it will I will moast likely build a case for it so it is more presentable perhaps out of wood with holes cut for the volume knobs etc.

    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • BuckeyeTim
    BuckeyeTim Posts: 483
    edited October 2010
    snow wrote: »
    2 late money has already been sent, If I decide to part with it though you will get dibs. BTW I found another NOS pair of tubes for your buffer I will send them when I get a chance.

    REGARDS SNOW

    Thanks for the dibs! I don't know why I didn't grab this when Russ first put it up.
    I would love to take another pair of tubes off your hands. Send whenever you get around to it and I'll drop you some $. Thanks!

    inspiredsports wrote: »
    Yep, me too. I PM'd to find out what tubes were involved and by the time I got back to the forum it was too late.

    I hear ya'. I was at inlaws and was using Blackberry to check in. Took far too long to realize that I could sign in and post from the Blackberry. Now I know!

    inspiredsports wrote: »
    With your skills a new faceplate could be fashioned in a blink of the eye !

    I was thinking same thing. It would take a matter of minutes to zap out a new faceplate on the Laser at work.
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