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Indeed, great find dak. That receiver has a special sound, open and airy, just a bit warmer than neutral. Very listenable.
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I like it but there is one thing that bothers me, it has many scratches at the top and the wood case is falling apart on the back. I know the sounds matter the most but I like all my gears to be mint or near mint. I will keep it for now till I find a better Pioneer. Not many for sale here in Chicago's craigslist
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I've seen some 750's & 850's on our local CL but people are asking crazy money for them.
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I've seen some 750's & 850's on our local CL but people are asking crazy money for them.
Same story here, they as way too much
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I like it but there is one thing that bothers me, it has many scratches at the top and the wood case is falling apart on the back. I know the sounds matter the most but I like all my gears to be mint or near mint. I will keep it for now till I find a better Pioneer. Not many for sale here in Chicago's craigslist
I know the case configuration is not quite the same as on my 850 but you might want to try and build your own. It might make a nice DIY project. If the top only has some scratches you might want to try some 0000 steel wool and Howard's Restor-A-Finish. It will not remove deep gouges but it works miracles on light surface scratches.
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I know the case configuration is not quite the same as on my 850 but you might want to try and build your own. It might make a nice DIY project. If the top only has some scratches you might want to try some 0000 steel wool and Howard's Restor-A-Finish. It will not remove deep gouges but it works miracles on light surface scratches.
Thanks thekid but there are very deep scratches on the silver face at the top!
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Could not help myself when I saw this Infinity CC-3 sitting on the shelf for $20. Solidly built and it has small footprint so I am going to give it a shot in the main HT set up to see how it works. Has tone controls on the back so I think I can tweak it some to match the tone of the DCM's.
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Nice score. I had a set of Infinity surround speakers and the center was very simiral if not the same with the one you just got. You would love how they sound. I ended up selling the whole set to a friend.
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I bought these Bose 2.2's Friday at a garage sale for $3. (Picture stolen from ebay). They are in great shape, and sound half way decent, like the older Bose. My first system back in the early 70's I had a pair of 301's. A year and a half ago I bought the 301 series V (sentimental reasons I guess) online and was very disappointed with the sound as well as the build quality (mostly plastic). I ended up giving them to my girlfriend's son. ((even though I gave him a choice between a pair of Infinity Beta 20's, Paradigm Titians, or Polk Monitor 40's). These sound a lot more similar to my original 301's, not great, but not terrible either. Just fun!
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For $3 and Bose speakers, many people will say wow, only 3 bucks. You can't beat the price. I will agree with you regarding the Bose sound quality. I have owned 301 IV Series, 601 towers, 141 bookshelfs and I never liked the sound of Bose. Many people say they are great speakers and they like them but not me.
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That's because they are not great speakers. At best they are mediocre.
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I can't remember how much the original 301's were but I thought they were decent bookshelf speakers, an actual 2-way with the dial on the side to tilt the tweeter up or down. Back then I was way too young to know what good sound was but the 301's were better than what I had at the time. My first actual hi fi set up was a Realistic receiver and a set of those cheap Centrex speakers built by Pioneer.
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I'm not a Bose-basher, but I do think all their products are GROSSLY overpriced.
Mr. P, I remember I paid $178 pr for my 301's in the 70's (with the vane). The receiver I bought was a Sony STR 7015 (18 watts) and a BIC 960 turntable with a Shure M91ED cartridge. My first system from the ceramic cartridges. Everything I bought was a "Best Buy" from a leading consumer magazine, except the receiver.which was a Harman Kardon 330. They were back ordered at the time, but I was happy with the Sony.
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This is my first touch with the brand Lafayette model LR-2200. I have seen it only online but today I grabbed a receiver! Very nice warm sound! Does anyone know if this brand is good and what is the history?
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New member here so first post, but I had to comment on your find. I grew up with this receiver and remember many years worth of fond memories enjoying music through it. In fact, I was rummaging through the garage cabinets of my mothers house recently trying to find it, because it's a shame to waste, but she has no idea what happened to it and I couldn't find it unfortunately. Hopefully someone's enjoying it.
Enjoy!
Troy
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Sansui 7500a for 20 bucks
Tannoy Mallorcans for 50 bucks. Gold in them i say!
M&K sub/sat for 54 bucks? Heck yeah their coming home!
But the best one is the Mallorcan. And to think i didnt have the money for them. Had an hour to come up with the funds!
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Sansui 7500a for 20 bucks
Tannoy Mallorcans for 50 bucks. Gold in them i say!
M&K sub/sat for 54 bucks? Heck yeah their coming home!
But the best one is the Mallorcan. And to think i didnt have the money for them. Had an hour to come up with the funds!
Congrats- Sansui from that era is something special.
Please post pics when you get everything home.
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Yeah, post same pictures, I would like to see the sub and the Sansui receiver!
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ive had the sui for about a year or so now. And the tannoys in the last two weeks.
ill go about posting photos after a while. Gotta figure out which photos they are.
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This is the kind of vintage find I like!
Threshold 800A
If I had money to burn, I'd love to have one of these (no connection to seller!). I vividly remember this innovative first design of Nelson Pass back in 1975. The dealer who taught me quite a bit when I was in high school (and later worked for) had one of these. It was a unique combination of workhorse drive-any-load-you-can-throw-at-it (including the poster child for torture, the Dayton-Wright electrostatic) with a level of refinement unknown to high powered solid state amps at the time. It introduced the concept of sliding Class A operation commonly used today. With its forty-eight 150 watt device output stage, protection circuitry (and its audible effects) was rendered unnecessary after discovering that removing it had no effect on reliability.
More about the 800A.
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200wpc that is a lot of power! I wouldn't mind one too E-Stat!!!!
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heres a few photos. Spent a few hours trying to get it right...:yikes:
how do i make the photos display on the screen with out clicking the link. Gonna have to do some thing different.
lets see if it works.
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You need to use the [img] code
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New finds for the week!!!
Energy 2.1E Bookshelf Speakers!
Kenwood KR-V107R Huge Receiver
Yamaha R-300 Receiver
Huge old Capitol tube guitar amp with 2 12" Jensen Speakers
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you got a warehouse for all this gear?!
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Geoffcin, I have a big storage so I store them. I sell some as well but if I see a great deal I go for it.
I post pics of the interesting gears because it is nice when you see a picture and something new!
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Nice score, particularly on the Energy speakers, never heard them but from what I have read they are very highly rated.
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Hey luvtolisten, you haven't been here for a while. They are really great speakers, I was very impressed when I heard them. A week ago I got a Pioneer SX-1050
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Hi Dak, I saw the 650. Now a 1050 too? I've heard evrything from the 750 on up is special. Man, when you're hot, you are HOT!!
Things are slow here, all the college kids back in school buying up the goodies in the Goodwill stores, and getting too cold and rainy for the garage sales.
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Man some nice finds in this thread. No tubes yet for me.
Some day.
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Wow, now that is a very nice score! I have never heard this amp but by the way it's build it looks great! Congrats Glen B.
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Glen
Congrats on the new amp.
What else are you running with it?
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New member here so first post, but I had to comment on your find. I grew up with this receiver and remember many years worth of fond memories enjoying music through it. In fact, I was rummaging through the garage cabinets of my mothers house recently trying to find it, because it's a shame to waste, but she has no idea what happened to it and I couldn't find it unfortunately. Hopefully someone's enjoying it.
Enjoy!
Troy
I worked for Lafayettte Radio "in the day," and remember the full compliment of receivers of which the LR-2200 was one. All were actually first-rate pieces of equipment, easily able to hold their own against anything from anyone else, and all were also amazingly reliable too. The 2200 wasn't a quad unit, but a 2-channel unit that put out about 25 watts per channel into 8 ohms.
I believe there's a "4-channel" position on the speaker selector knob, but that was for a built-in Dynaquad system that most Lafayette 2-channel receivers had at the time. Either another set of speakers could be connected as a pair of "remote" speakers, or as rear speakers in the quasi-quadraphonic setup (Dynaquad) which, at times, worked very nicely.
Lafayette's ultimate demise had nothing to do with being competitive with other retailers, but from the mind-set of one man - Arthur J. Blackburn - who bankrupted the company in only 3 years, primarily by taking delivery of millions of dollars of obsolete 23-channel CB equipment after the FCC had already stated that only 40-channel units could be sold.
A once successful chain, then about 55 years old collapsed thanks to this man.
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Nice amp Glen, I too would like to see what else is in the system. What are your impressions of the sound?
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Glen
Congrats on the new amp.
What else are you running with it?
I haven't figured that out yet. I just got the amp a couple of days ago. The first thing I do when I get a new used solid state amp is check the outputs for DC offset. The offset on this amp is quite low but stll needs zeroing out. After I do that, and check and adjust the bias to factory spec (if necessary), I will do some serious listening. The results of that listening will determine which of three systems it will find a home in. The other components in the evaluation system will be: Marantz Reference SA-11S2 SACD player, Classé CP-50 preamp, and PSB Stratus Gold i speakers.
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The amp looks to be about perfect for rounding that system out, very nice.
Sounds like you are tech savvy, I wish you lived closer to me ol' buddy :)
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I plan on doing a few tasteful mods to the DR-10. Its open layout and fact that the op-amps are socket-mounted, lends itself easily to mods -- certainly much more so than my CA-300. I've been doing scratch builds, restorations and mods for the past 40 years. Here's a sampling of past projects:
DIY balanced power line conditioners/surge protector(s):
http://forums.audioreview.com/audio-lab-tweaks-mods-diy/diy-balanced-ac-power-conditioner-5473.html
CA-300 binding post and power inlet upgrade:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/191557/2009226
Phase Linear 400 Series 2 input and output connector upgrades and addition of DC protection circuitry: http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/191557/1927085
SAE-2400 refurb/re-cap/connector upgrades:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/191557/1986567
Custom DC blocker - examples of some of the units built and sold to a few audio discussion forum members. Eliminates amplifier mechanical hum caused by saturation of toroid transformer from DC offset on the AC power line: Actually sold one just yesterday:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/191557/2020464
One-off IR wireless learning remote switcher for Classé legacy amps with non-standard 12V trigger. Built and sold to an Audiogon member to trigger his CA-150 amp:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/191557/2097974
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I plan on doing a few tasteful mods to the DR-10. Its open layout and fact that the op-amps are socket-mounted, lends itself easily to mods -- certainly much more so than my CA-300. I've been doing scratch builds, restorations and mods for the past 40 years. Here's a sampling of past projects:
DIY balanced power line conditioners/surge protector(s):
http://forums.audioreview.com/showthread.php?t=5473
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Glen, the link for the schematic for you balanced power conditioner in your original post doesn't seem to work anymore. Can you supply a new link??? I'd be very interested.
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Well, that was more than 6 years ago. I no longer keep that schematic. I scribbled something together (see link). Its a basic schematic. Surge protection is provided by a Littlefuse iTMOV, a three-lead varistor with an integrated thermal element that opens in the event of catastrophic failure, mounted close to where power enters the enclosure. The third lead can be wired to any type of indicating or cutout circuit. I use a simple indicating LED with dropping resistor and diode to provide 12V to illuminate the LED. The LED is mounted on the front panel of the enclosure, and indicates that power is on and surge protection is active. Opening of the thermal element also cuts power to the LED. The iTMOV can be eliminated if you choose to do so.
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Hey dakatabg,you looking to sell those energy 2.1e speakers?If so PM me,I am building a decent small room system and they would be perfect.
BTW,nice thread everybody,I like to check it out once in a while.It sure gives you some ideas for your next purchase!
Thanks.
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