New Finds

[Geoffcin]

Thanks for the love guys! Here's my newest find. WBT 2016 cabling finished with WBT 0101 locking RCA plugs. WBT are a German company known for high end ICs. The fit and finish of the plugs is unlike anything I have ever owned. Basically, the plug twists to loosen and once on the input, twists to snug. It literally will not come off once snugged up. Awesome!!

My local shop "gifted" these to me for the mere price tag of $50. They are easily worth $150 - 200, but I won't be selling them. They are beyond any descriptives. The high end has improved dramatically which for my rig, is a great thing.

Sweet! Those cables use the same connectors that are on my HGA cables. Just be careful how much you tighten them. I had a mother of a time getting them off the last time I moved stuff around. From the color they look Rhodium plated. That's the bomb!

[poppachubby]

Sweet! Those cables use the same connectors that are on my HGA cables. Just be careful how much you tighten them. I had a mother of a time getting them off the last time I moved stuff around. From the color they look Rhodium plated. That's the bomb!

Rhodium huh? Sounds like audiophile kool-aid lol. Geoff they are amazing. I mean my king Cobras are great, and were a big improvement, but not like this. This is the first real evidence that I have had about high end cables.

I wsn't even that excited before putting them in, I bought them because obviously the price was right. Imagine my surprise after hooking them up. That's how I know they are good, because i didn't WANT them to be, they simply are.

They have made the music WAY more exciting. God I can't believe where I am at now with my rig. I want for nothing now except more LPs!!

At a time when most teenagers don't want to spend 5 minutes in a room with their parents I have spent most Saturday's with my son riding around listening to and talking about music while finding some pretty good deals on gear.

Honestly kid, that sounds so great. It's all i am hoping for, that him and I can connect at some level around music. We have him enrolled in music lessons which at this point, is a group format where they can sample between guitar, piano, drums, etc. This is what I really want for him, then him and the old man can jam together, Partridge family style!

You are a lucky guy, but i don't need to tell you that. I still have alot more work to do, like for example getting him to use a Kleenex instead of his sleeve. Aren't you glad those days are behind you now?

You might want to double check that Split Enz. It might be laser etched. Mine is.

Thanks for the heads up SB. I am a pretty big Split Enz fan, and have all of their work on LP. Frankly, I have never seen a copy of True Colours without the laser etching. My son's has it, and really the LP probably has value up to 7 or 8 bucks. But hey we paid 1.99 and I figure let him have it, he loves the disc, makes him feel grown up having something other than Sesame street Disco, which BTW rocks!

[thekid]

You are a lucky guy, but i don't need to tell you that. I still have alot more work to do, like for example getting him to use a Kleenex instead of his sleeve. Aren't you glad those days are behind you now?

Pops

I am a lucky guy.
Just remember there are always days to get behind but there are a lot more to look forward to.

Happy Holidays to you and all my AR family........

[dakatabg]

Few new additions

[luvtolisten]

You've been busy!
My second pair of speakers back in the 70's were a pair of Cerwin Vega's. Sometimes thinking back, things seem better then they actually were, but as I recall they weren't that bad, but then again I played mostly rock 99% of the time.

I remember the Hitachi receivers. There big marketing point early on,was having a class D amplifier. It seems to me some in the late 70's or early 80's had a gold face.

That looks like a Yamaha sub.Their entry level subs were rated decent for the lower budget level. Good finds!

[dakatabg]

They were given to me because the foam was bad, I refoamed them and here they are, a pair of JBL LX440.

[luvtolisten]

Nice job on the refoam. Are those aluminum tweeters? How do you like the sound?

[dakatabg]

I have refoamed many speakers already so it is an easy job for me. I don't think the tweeters are aluminum. They sound very good, after new year I will hear to see how they will sound compared with my Minimus-7 and maybe I will keep them.

[Charlie04SiR]

sweet mackenoly, dak! Where do you find this stuff??

poppa, wow that portable record player is cool! Your son is a chip off the old block ,ehh?

[thekid]

Well I had a relapse today and picked another pair of speakers.
Cosmetically they are in fairly good shape given their age.
Biggest problem is that both tweeters are out so another project. Not sure what I will do with them. My guess is they are probably similar in sound to my Dynaco A-25's based on their size and drivers. But what the heck for $15 I figured one more for the stack.......

[Geoffcin]

These I got!

[thekid]

These I got!

G

Are you saying you have a pair of 6's?
If so what do you think of them?
Are they worth the effort to solve the the tweeter issue?

[dakatabg]

You can't pass them for just $15.

Lately I see many KLH 17 on craigslist for like 50 to 80 bucks.

[dakatabg]

Brand new Onkyo 7.1 Surround Receiver. It has Serious Radio, HDMI inputs and many more! 130wpc

[dakatabg]

New Kenny Set in the house!

[Feanor]

New Kenny Set in the house!

Congrats. More super silver stuff -- I love it.

[dakatabg]

The guy was a Vietnam veteran and he said he bought them brand new from Germany. I have the manual books too. The amp is similar to the KA-6000 I have, the buttons and knobs are exactly the same, the look too.

The tuner is a beauty and all lights work. Overall good deal.

[thekid]

The guy was a Vietnam veteran and he said he bought them brand new from Germany. I have the manual books too. The amp is similar to the KA-6000 I have, the buttons and knobs are exactly the same, the look too.

The tuner is a beauty and all lights work. Overall good deal.

Congrats Dak!
What gear are you actually listening to now?

[dakatabg]

Mostly I use the Dynaco tube amp with the JBL L100 now and Marantz 2250B

Sometimes I power up the other units too but the 2 listed are the main ones.

[luvtolisten]

I bought these off CL. I got them cheap, so I really can't complain. As you can see one of the drivers is not original (MTX). I didn't know it when I bought them. The guy selling them had the grills off of one and the grill on the other speaker when I went over to take a look. You can guess which speaker he left the grill on . I guess I was a little too trusting maybe, it was 8:30 AM and I was running short on time to meet an old friend for breakfast. I know if the seller would have been upfront I would have bought them anyway, so I'm not complaining, just don't like the idea that he might be thinking he pulled a fast one on me. I was able to buy a replacement driver (MW6502) cheap off ebay, a pair of monitor 4's with a bad woofer and a bad tweeter. I just had him send me the good woofer & tweeter and pitch the rest (cabinets, they were beat), to cut down the price of shipping. I put the replacement woofer in, and I really like the sound of these. The cabinets are mint too.They are keepers! All's well that ends well!

[thekid]

I bought these off CL. I got them cheap, so I really can't complain. As you can see one of the drivers is not original (MTX). I didn't know it when I bought them. The guy selling them had the grills off of one and the grill on the other speaker when I went over to take a look. You can guess which speaker he left the grill on . I guess I was a little too trusting maybe, it was 8:30 AM and I was running short on time to meet an old friend for breakfast. I know if the seller would have been upfront I would have bought them anyway, so I'm not complaining, just don't like the idea that he might be thinking he pulled a fast one on me. I was able to buy a replacement driver (MW6502) cheap off ebay, a pair of monitor 4's with a bad woofer and a bad tweeter. I just had him send me the good woofer & tweeter and pitch the rest (cabinets, they were beat), to cut down the price of shipping. I put the replacement woofer in, and I really like the sound of these. The cabinets are mint too.They are keepers! All's well that ends well!

Congrats L2L!!
The Polk Monitor series from that time period are something special.

[luvtolisten]

Congrats L2L!!
The Polk Monitor series from that time period are something special.

Thanks kid. I've had these in the back of my mind for a while, just couldn't find a "deal'.
But now I'm finding out first hand, these guys are special.

[dakatabg]

Those are very good speakers. One of my friends has a pair of those or similar (they look the same) and they sounded so good with a Marantz 2230. They have a lot of bass to for their size.

I see you have stacked few more pairs on the back!

[luvtolisten]

Those are very good speakers. One of my friends has a pair of those or similar (they look the same) and they sounded so good with a Marantz 2230. They have a lot of bass to for their size.

I see you have stacked few more pairs on the back!

Thanks Dak, I agree they do have a lot of bass for their size. I can't remember ever hearing bass so low without being muddy coming out of a speaker with a single 6.5" driver.
Yet on the Polk site, out of the 13 reviews only one listed the bass as a strenth, and 3 or 4 listed it as a weakness. Must be the ones who listed it as having no bass must not have the drivers sealed properly, or underpowered. (They do like power).

Yep, I have a few stacked in the back as well as in another room. I'm up somewhere between 35- 40 pairs of speakers now.

Here's a pic of what I'm listening to now, I have them all hooked up using 2 switch boxes (6 pr. ea). I know it's an audiophile no no, but I like the conveinence of just pushing a button rather than physically connecting and disconnecting each one. I do rotate another pair or 2 in and out every 3 or 4 months.
Pictured are:
Top row: Wharfedale Evo 10's,Paradigm Titians,Klipsch KG 2's, Boston A60's,Infinity Beta 20's, and B&O Bevox 45-2's.
Bottom row: Polk SDA II's, Polk Monitor 7b's, Wharfedale WD 60 Mark III's, Genesis I, Advent Prodigy's, Yamaha NS 4's.
Foreground EPI 201's.
Sorry it's just you can only see 1/2 of the speakers in play, but the width of the room prevented me from standing back for a full shot.

[dakatabg]

Since we are on a roll this week, I got another Sansui AU-717 ( with the rack handles this time )

I just set up the bias and dc offset on it and ready to play!

Here is a picture of it and of the whole Sansui black stack!