Looking under the hood

Time to make another contribution --

George had pics of these before, but I figured I would post some more/better pics of them!

I am bored, and you are paying the price.
Here are the innards of a somewhat bastardized Heathkit SS-1 speaker from the 1950s. The woofer is a Jensen P8RX, not the P8RL that should be in there. Indeed, the P8RXs I have look to me to be recones, but so it goes.

Found the speakers at the dump some years back, with nasty R/S 8" woofers replacing the Jensens but the RP-103 horns intact and working. Bought the P8RXs to replace the R/Ss; one of my first eBAY purchases.

Finally found a good home for these (besides my basement, that is).

Some info on these speakers at: http://members.myactv.net/~je245/vintagebudgetspks.htm

mhardy6647 wrote: »

I am bored, and you are paying the price.
Here are the innards of a somewhat bastardized Heathkit SS-1 speaker from the 1950s. The woofer is a Jensen P8RX, not the P8RL that should be in there. Indeed, the P8RXs I have look to me to be recones, but so it goes.

Found the speakers at the dump some years back, with nasty R/S 8" woofers replacing the Jensens but the RP-103 horns intact and working. Bought the P8RXs to replace the R/Ss; one of my first eBAY purchases.

Finally found a good home for these (besides my basement, that is).

Some info on these speakers at: http://members.myactv.net/~je245/vintagebudgetspks.htm

Nice vintage stuff as usual...:cool:

My Cambridge Audio 840C has arrived! First impression versus. . . Oppo/PS Audio Trio A-100, What? Kick that duo to the curb. The Azur is in the house!

Power supply of the Belles 28A (My new preamp)

shadowofnight wrote: »

Very cool looking solid state relay there...quality stuff

If you are referring to the round blue casing, that is a transformer. Its an off the shelf sealed torroidal tranny, you can get them at Digikey or Mouser.

billbillw wrote: »

If you are referring to the round blue casing, that is a transformer. Its an off the shelf sealed torroidal tranny, you can get them at Digikey or Mouser.

Actually I was referring to that ...and I stand corrected....When I looked at the picture and saw the way the voltages were labeled at both ends of the component it was identical to the many solid state relays I had worked with over the years. When I saw where it was mounted on the board, and the ac coming in extremely close to it ...all pointed to ssr ....hadnt seen toroidal transformers encased that small before. I figured the transformer would be larger and remotely mounted. Good catch...I was so intrigued I looked up the manufacturer... http://www.amveco.com/Low_Profile_PC.htm

I see a drive motor for your large knob... interesting.

Very nice,dual mono using a pair of hefty looking toroids.MF have a great track history of making great sounding gear. The Audio store I used to work at back in the mid 80's carried the line and I have fond memories of the little
A1 integrated (20 watts pure class A) and the monsterous A470 and A570 beasts also pure class A.

Thanks guys. I really like this piece of equipment.

I'd just like to go on record as saying this thread offends me and I wish it to be shut down.

Anthem amp one before upgrades.

Found this little guy at the dump two weeks ago. It works, although output from one channel is low.

Opened my B&K av5000, not long after I recieved it, to work on the gain pots. Its unbelievable how huge the transformer and the 4 blue ps caps are. The biggest I have seen so far. No wonder it weighs a ton. Will take pics tomorrow. I have seen other 100w/ch amps, but nothing that compares to this amp.