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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,978
    george daniel wrote: »
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    Should have kept mine, you don’t see Dodd gear for sale very often.

    Still a little **** with his attitude when I met him at RMAF, he had to have been having a bad day.

    R.I.P.
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  • engie490
    engie490 Posts: 438
    Just pulled my Jeff Rowland Model 1 out of storage. I had it upgraded with the new front end boards a few years back. Still sounds great!!!

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    Hales System Two Signatures / Bryston 7B STs / McCormack RLD-1 / Innersound Phono / Bluesound Node 130 /Oppo BDP-105D / Technics SP-15 w/SAEC WE-308SX & Ortofon AS-309 arms / Audio-Technica ART-1 & Dynavector XX2 Mk II carts
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  • skrol
    skrol Posts: 3,437
    edited February 2022
    Sony CDP-650ESD always astounds me. 19 lbs of pleasure…
    Stan

    Main 2ch:
    Polk LSi15 (DB840 upgrade), Parasound: P/LD-1100, HCA-1000A; Denon: DVD-2910, DRM-800A; Benchmark DAC1, Monster HTS3600-MKII, Grado SR-225i; Technics SL-J2, Parasound PPH-100.

    HT:
    Marantz SR7010, Polk: RTA11TL (RDO198-1, XO and Damping Upgrades), S4, CS250, PSW110 , Marantz UD5005, Pioneer PL-530, Panasonic TC-P42S60

    Other stuff:
    Denon: DRA-835R, AVR-888, DCD-660, DRM-700A, DRR-780; Polk: S8, Monitor 5A, 5B, TSi100, RM7, PSW10 (DXi104 upgrade); Pioneer: CT-6R; Onkyo CP-1046F; Ortofon OM5E, Marantz: PM5004, CD5004, CDR-615; Parasound C/PT-600, HCA-800ii, Sony CDP-650ESD, Technics SA 5070, B&W DM601
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,861
    edited February 2022
    engie490 wrote: »
    Jeff Rowland Model 1
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    Are those power supply fuses? Can't tell but if you're in the "better power cables sound better" group those should be upgraded. If you have any fuses in the output stage like that, they are sucking the life out an excellent amp!

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    Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

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  • engie490
    engie490 Posts: 438
    audioluvr wrote: »
    engie490 wrote: »
    Jeff Rowland Model 1
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    Are those power supply fuses? Can't tell but if you're in the "better power cables sound better" group those should be upgraded. If you have any fuses in the output stage like that, they are sucking the life out an excellent amp!

    Good eye! Those are rail fuses...and they work well because they saved the amp from a naughty preamp!
    Hales System Two Signatures / Bryston 7B STs / McCormack RLD-1 / Innersound Phono / Bluesound Node 130 /Oppo BDP-105D / Technics SP-15 w/SAEC WE-308SX & Ortofon AS-309 arms / Audio-Technica ART-1 & Dynavector XX2 Mk II carts
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  • SeleniumFalcon
    SeleniumFalcon Posts: 4,269
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
    ^^^ I have no idea what that is?! :p I initially thought it was a TVC, but, nooooooo...

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  • rebelsoul
    rebelsoul Posts: 756
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  • SeleniumFalcon
    SeleniumFalcon Posts: 4,269
    The photo was the underside of a switching panel that I built for my model train layout. I allows me to switch up to 20 turnouts and control the power to up to 20 different sections of the track. Here is a photo of the top and rear sections of the panel. The paint scheme is based upon the old Erie Lackawanna railroad colors.

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
    edited September 2022
    Outstanding!

    I am reminded of some manner of old folk (?) song my maternal grandfather used to "sing" (for lack of a better word)... something about "the Erie Lackawan'..."


    EDIT: Well... alrighty then... maybe it was Where Do You Work-a, John? ("On the Delaware Lackawan' ")... but maybe not. :p

    That said, I found this -- which ain't my grandfather's song... but it is quite cool (and a new find for me)! :)

    https://youtu.be/A2a_ruhWcj8
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,091
    I was a train controller a thousand lifetimes ago. For the Soo Line. I just found my stuff from train dispatcher school in Minneapolis, which I kept for some reason. Very hard school, way more complex than I remember.
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 13,078
    Luxman MQ-88uSE
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,450
    Great photos, all - who doesn't like stereo guts photos - but man this thread title is GNARLY.
    I disabled signatures.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
    msg wrote: »
    Great photos, all - who doesn't like stereo guts photos - but man this thread title is GNARLY.

    blame the OP (and, of course, the Vanilla nanny censor) ;)

    let's see, do I have any guts I haven't spilled here yet?
    Lemme look...

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    Dump find Yamaha RX-570 with the top popped for its roughly every five year control cleaning. This one lives in our "den" hooked up (sort of) to a TV (sort of) that we almost never watch. :p
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,382
    One of my monoblocks wouldn't turn on... Sad but half way expected due to the age... Took an opportunity to take things apart and look for burnt things. I couldn't access it but I think the regenerator is the culprit

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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,978
    msg wrote: »
    Great photos, all - who doesn't like stereo guts photos - but man this thread title is GNARLY.


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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,915
    Careful Scott will be in love 💞💞💞
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
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    DANGER PART! DANGER PART!
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    B)
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,655
    msg wrote: »
    Great photos, all - who doesn't like stereo guts photos - but man this thread title is GNARLY.

    Agreed, it's way past time to change the thread title.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,382
    Mark always had a ways with words
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,566
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Outstanding!

    I am reminded of some manner of old folk (?) song my maternal grandfather used to "sing" (for lack of a better word)... something about "the Erie Lackawan'..."


    EDIT: Well... alrighty then... maybe it was Where Do You Work-a, John? ("On the Delaware Lackawan' ")... but maybe not. :p

    That said, I found this -- which ain't my grandfather's song... but it is quite cool (and a new find for me)! :)

    https://youtu.be/A2a_ruhWcj8

    rics to Erie Lackawanna
    Erie Lackawanna Video:

    THIS IS THE ROOM WHERE THEY WERE BORN
    ALL OF THE KIDS GROWN UP SO LONG NOW
    AND IF I'M QUIET I CAN HEAR THEM FIGHT
    BUT THE ONLY REAL SOUND IS THAT WHISTLING TRAIN AT NIGHT

    THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT HAS STAYED THE SAME
    THE LONELY WHINE OF THE NEW YORK TRAIN
    USED TO HEAR IT COMING FOR ME IN DREAMS
    BUT NOW IT JUST SINGS ME TO SLEEP IT SEEMS

    I CAN HEAR A WRECKING BALL COMING FOR THE HOUSE
    SEE A WRECKING BALL GONNA TEAR IT DOWN

    IN THIS KITCHEN WE WOULD LAUGH AND SING
    NOW I EAT ALONE AT BURGER KING
    MY WIFE USED TO COME HOME AND COOK THE MEALS
    NOW MY DAUGHTER COMES WEEKLY TO FEED ME PILLS

    I CAN HEAR A WRECKING BALL COMING FOR THE HOUSE
    SEE A WRECKING BALL GONNA TEAR IT DOWN

    USED TO RUN THROUGH FIELDS TO PUT PENNIES ON THE TRACK
    NOW IT'S JUST BIG HOUSES WITH POOLS OUT BACK
    THEY'LL BULLDOZE THIS HOUSE WHEN I AM GONE
    AND NO-ONE WILL BE HERE TO SING THAT OLD TRAIN SONG

    I CAN HEAR A WRECKING BALL COMING FOR THE HOUSE
    SEE A WRECKING BALL GONNA TEAR IT DOWN
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    --Mark Twain.

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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,655
    New thread title...KUDOS!!!
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,382
    edited November 4
    Kinergetics kba 75, class a 75 watts, doubling to 150 at 4 and 300 at 2

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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 3,028
    Nice - you don’t see the MT-200 output devices very often…
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,382
    It seems very well built, first impressions are positive. Hoping it will hold me over while I find time to work on the levibsons
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • Jetmaker737
    Jetmaker737 Posts: 1,103
    I did not notice until today that the thread title had been changed. The old was very descriptive, but a bit over the top I gotta say.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,655
    Yep, long overdue.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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