So, what music are you listening to now?

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Another Saturday night here in the ''Ville" , listening to the local radio. WFPK and Little Steven Underground Garage then coming up the Rollings Stone Hour followed by the Blues Party.



No sense spinning tonight....



Barney

Well, I spun a few tonite in celebration of locating the hum problem I've been having with my Dynavector.

After replacing my Bellari with an Azur 640P which helped quite a bit, I finally went straight to the phono pre in my Van Alstine. Still had hum.

I was just about ready to ditch the Dynavector and go back to my Super 40, or my AT 440ML, but decided to try swapping the RCA cables first.

No more hum!!! I'll be trying the Bellari again, it is the best of the lot...especially with a RCA black plate installed.

Chas

[merrylander]

Lady Radnor Suite - William Boughton English String Orch.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Charles

Well, I spun a few tonite in celebration of locating the hum problem I've been having with my Dynavector.

After replacing my Bellari with an Azur 640P which helped quite a bit, I finally went straight to the phono pre in my Van Alstine. Still had hum.

I was just about ready to ditch the Dynavector and go back to my Super 40, or my AT 440ML, but decided to try swapping the RCA cables first.

No more hum!!! I'll be trying the Bellari again, it is the best of the lot...especially with a RCA black plate installed.

Chas

No Hum! Gotta love that, man. I'm listening to these old mono Magnavox amps pushing out 25 watts per amp. What's really cool is that they are pushpull for the low freq. and single ended for the highs. They work damn good with almost any speaker except the Vandies.

[bobabode]

Listening to Aqualung by Jethro Tull-

with the occasional B25 flying overhead.
I guess the Lyons Air Museum is making some bucks this weekend taking some folks up for rides. One of these days when my shoulder is on the mend I'm going to bite the bullet and take a ride. Hooorah!!

[Charles]

Originally Posted by bobabode

No Hum! Gotta love that, man. I'm listening to these old mono Magnavox amps pushing out 25 watts per amp. What's really cool is that they are pushpull for the low freq. and single ended for the highs. They work damn good with almost any speaker except the Vandies.

PP low end, SE high end? Didn't know they ever made such an animal.

Always wanted to try the SE amps, but have grown accustomed to PP. If anything, I'd probably be more interested in a hybrid at this stage of the game.

Chas

[Charles]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Listening to Aqualung by Jethro Tull-

with the occasional B25 flying overhead.
I guess the Lyons Air Museum is making some bucks this weekend taking some folks up for rides. One of these days when my shoulder is on the mend I'm going to bite the bullet and take a ride. Hooorah!!

I ALMOST pulled that one out of the stack last night, but went with Marshall Tucker instead.

Remember about thirty years ago when a 17 & a 24 came over us in formation while we were working for an old 17 pilot. Local air show.

Tried to talk "Bill", the old 17 pilot into going down and looking at them and all he had to say was, "I've seen enough of those motherfuckers to last me for a lifetime."

Chas

[d-ray657]

Pomp and Circumstance - KU Band

Saw the boy finally get his degree today (along with several thousand others). One down, one to go.

Here's how clueless I am. Nearly every department announced that they had candidates for the degree of "Doctor of Philosophy." I was thinking that it was strange that philosophers would be graduating from so many disciplines, until it dawned on me "DOH - PHD."

Regards,

D-Ray

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Pomp and Circumstance - KU Band

Saw the boy finally get his degree today (along with several thousand others). One down, one to go.

Here's how clueless I am. Nearly every department announced that they had candidates for the degree of "Doctor of Philosophy." I was thinking that it was strange that philosophers would be graduating from so many disciplines, until it dawned on me "DOH - PHD."

Regards,

D-Ray

Congratulations, Juris Doctor.

I'm heading to Milwaukee next weekend for my daughter's graduation. That'll be 2 down, 1 to go.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Congratulations, Juris Doctor.

I'm heading to Milwaukee next weekend for my daughter's graduation. That'll be 2 down, 1 to go.

Yes Master.

Regards,

D-Ray

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Charles

PP low end, SE high end? Didn't know they ever made such an animal.

Always wanted to try the SE amps, but have grown accustomed to PP. If anything, I'd probably be more interested in a hybrid at this stage of the game.

Chas

Magnavox had a few of these biamp models that they put out, mine are the 150 model made in 1957 for a mono console. I found two of them. It's all 6V6 power tubes.

The low freq. is actually paralell push pull (4 X 6V6 + 12AT7) and a single (6V6 + 6AV6) for the high freq. There's a volume control circuit on the high freq. that allows for easy control of the tweets, which makes it easily adjustable to a lot of different speakers.

The factory crossovers are set at about 1100hz. I just bypassed the speakers internal crossovers, actually the mids & tweets use the speakers internal Xover.

With the help of Gordon Waters over at AK I upgraded the power supply by replacing all of the electrolytics and bumped up the coupling caps (orange drops) and replaced all of the carbon comp resistors with carbon film resistors. Otherwise I left the Magnavox circuit alone and they are dead quiet.

I get a kick out of some of the younger cats touting their biamp set ups as the newest shizzle on the block. I just offhandedly tell 'em about this 1957 set up and their first objection is ,"Wait a minute, you do know Magnavox didn't have stereo consoles until years later!" I just tell 'em, "Well it's simple you've got to have two of them."

It's a gas to pop some guys bubble when they start with their condesending attitude about how their systems are the newest thing under the sun and that we old farts just don't get it. Heh, I've got about $200-$225 in parts in 'em including the original consoles + about 20 - 25 hours of my time into each of them. First pic is before I made the surrounds, I moved the on/off switches to the top[rather than keep them on the front once I made the wood bases. The base material is solid bamboo flooring I had left over from my place.
With the wood bases the labor was more like 70 hours total for the both of them. I left the three old can caps on there for looks. It was a hell of an intro into tube electronics for me. I had already rebuilt a couple of those Magnavox 175 push pull stereo amps but these were something else in comparison.