I got to hear an amazing little system yesterday

[Hyfi]

Met a long lost relative yesterday and her husband had an interesting setup going on. An old Sherwood TT, small Epos speakers, and an old Magnavox console stereo amp modded a little and pushing a whopping 15wpc. Below is what they look like before being removed from the original console.

http://www.shedradios.com/images/2ST660_4.jpg

Scroll down to post 6 to see what they look like after being cleaned up.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tuberadios.com/temp/magpreamp.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/tubes-valves/135825-12au7-12at7-12ax7-preamp-schmatic-needed.html&usg=__CIRxjP6U0ujBvALTjfzlILZg7kQ=&h=377&w=801&sz=85&hl=en&start=55&um=1&tbnid=6WZVMnQAdXC8JM:&tbnh=67&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMagnavox%2BSE%2B6BQ5%26ndsp%3D18%26hl %3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26start%3D54%26um%3D1

It was amazing what kind of sound this little tiny system had with vinyl. The guy had just purchased an old record collection of 5300 albums for $500. It included some crap but also many gems. We had a blast spinning random albums of people we never heard as well as some we had.

[poppachubby]

NIce post HiFy, proof positive that there's gold in old. I hear it every single day...I actually rebuilt an Electrohome console unit, bascially changed out the speakers, TT and made some small changes to the amp. I listened to it for about a month but the novelty wore off. I posted it here but nobody really cared. Anyhow, my 15 watt Marantz is currently rockin me, gotta go.

[Hyfi]

NIce post HiFy, proof positive that there's gold in old. I hear it every single day...I actually rebuilt an Electrohome console unit, bascially changed out the speakers, TT and made some small changes to the amp. I listened to it for about a month but the novelty wore off. I posted it here but nobody really cared. Anyhow, my 15 watt Marantz is currently rockin me, gotta go.

Here are the actual components
http://gallery.audioreview.com/showphoto.php?photo=5879&cat=500&ppuser=176736

http://gallery.audioreview.com/showphoto.php?photo=5880&cat=500&ppuser=176736

http://gallery.audioreview.com/showphoto.php?photo=5881&cat=500&ppuser=176736

[poppachubby]

I love it!! Tell him it's 100% original and good for him. Fantastic DIY. The Sherwood looks mint also. I bet the sound was brilliant. I thought you meant he still had everything in the console still...

[theebadone]

Very cool, those old tube consoles never go out of style, to a good ear. The old magnavox tube consoles have some of the best sounding amps i have heard.