This joint needs some more vintage hifi

This is my first and only turntable. Picked it up at a thrift store for $10, cleaned it up and put an Ortofon on it. It makes my Monitor 5s sing!

Whelp, pulled the 8" drivers from my son's BA A70's last night and got down to some serious Dynamat Action on the baskets, they really did ring like bells, solid "thunk" now...





Also picked up some new binding post cups with better binding posts (replacing the spring terminals) to go along with my crossover refresh parts (new Mills MRA resistors and Sonicap Gen 1 caps). Can't wait to hear these babies.



As you can see - I have a good use for the foam surround replacements that I picked up as well - these are slightly tired...

@MrBuhl

Nice job hope your son appreciates your fine work.

Thanks gents - and especially you @pumpkinman for the ideas, links, and nudges in the right direction! These things are burning a hole in my pocket waiting to put power to them!

Thanks Darryl - maybe good for another 30 years!

Very cool, Mr Buhl. I refoamed some A60's and A70 Series II's last fall. Same surrounds. I did not recap, though. They both sounded pretty nice afterwards.

Honestly, I'm shocked. And not even that I got the crossovers right but by how nice they sound. Burn in has commenced (via long play ipod with 1800 songs on it) but sitting here listening to the shuffle of songs they are really musical. It's a nice room filling sound.

Imaging is pretty good - can locate specific instruments in the decently wide sound field. Bass for an 8" sealed is pretty good really, and the tweeters are nice and clear with good top end sparkle. Might tend a bit toward the bright end compared to my Polks right now (probably a combo of new Sonicap/Mills resistors burning in, the HK AVR, ipod source, & the lamp cord speaker cable) but they are overall really pleasing honestly.

They seem to excel at good old rock-n-roll, he's going to love them I think. the HK came with a small powered HK sub, I can't help but think with that in the mix he's going to be very very pleased indeed - heck they sound plenty good enough without it!

I may look for another set of the larger ones for myself, if this is what the baby brothers sound like... well... I think the biggies must be heard!

Beatles on right now - amazing!

Can anyone help me out ?? The A150's have a 10" woofer but when I try to find the woofer specs on the net it's confusing. I've read both 4ohm and 8ohm for the woofer. On eBay there's a pair of refoamed woofers that claim 8ohm. Simply Speakers has an after market drop in replacement for $65 each but says it's 4ohm. I can't find anything from BA. any help would be appreciated.

I'm imagining the A150's are the sweet spot in this lineup? Three-way and not overly large, 10" vs. the 8" in the A70, etc?

ADS L300c w/brackets. Add a sub & they sound BIG

I have looked at several sets of a/d/s home speakers over the years, never heard them though. I take it they are worth a listen?

I knew a guy that had them in his Jeep back in the 80's (with a Nakamichi car stereo as I recall) - I thought in the 80's that was as bad-**** as I had ever heard LOL.

My latest acquisition: Luxman M-300. And yes, at 40wpc in Class A mode it seems to be feeding the SDA-2B's just fine. I'm not trying to blow the roof off because the wife is home, but I'm playing louder than I normally do when she's here and it's sounding quite nice.

Gawd you suck, Bill!!
Throw some of that shite luck my way.