Vintage gear that makes you say "Wow"...

[stupidhead]

This has every possible McShane upgrade and then some.

 

[just dave]

Great thread! Nice too see the gear, some of which passed through my living room at one time or another.

Interesting story about Bob Carver and the Phase Linear 700B and Carver M1.5t. I owned both of those amps at the same time and I noticed that the 700B would drive my Dahlquist DQ 10's louder than the M1.5t. I'm sure I was in college, so volume was important! I called up Carver Corp and asked for Bob. I got an answering machine. I left him a message about the descrepancy in volume between the two amplifiers. Low and behold, Bob calls me back! I wasn't home, but he recorded a message saying he also had both amplifiers and a set of DQ 10's in his living room and he had the same experience. IIRC, he said he wasn't sure why, and then went on to hype the M1.5t and that it would absolutely not not clip and that the 700B could be driven into clipping/distortion and that at those high levels, it may not be noticeable.

So that's my Bob Carver story. I still have the cassette tape from the machine with that and other messages.

I never had one of these, but I sure wanted a pair!

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Cool story bro.

 

[just dave]

Hey guys....enough with the torture already...............

All dream stuff in my book.

Hurts sooo good.

 

[just dave]

This has every possible McShane upgrade and then some.

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I'm not a tube guy but that is beautiful.

 

[stupidhead]

I'm not a tube guy but that is beautiful.

thanx Dave. I totally agree!

 

[illini]

I want all of the gear in this thread.

 

[just dave]

I want all of the gear in this thread.

Better get movin then!

 

[Connor G]

Wow everyone! Everything I see on here makes me drool!
I got my AU-11000 shortly after creating this thread but never got around to putting it on here. It makes me say wow every single time I look at it; and you can imagine what I say when I hear it. Such an amazing, and timeless piece of, dare I say it, art.

 

[just dave]

Wow everyone! Everything I see on here makes me drool!
I got my AU-11000 shortly after creating this thread but never got around to putting it on here. It makes me say wow every single time I look at it; and you can imagine what I say when I hear it. Such an amazing, and timeless piece of, dare I say it, art.

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You may dare.The craftsmanship,inside and out are things of beauty.You can tell who made each receiver or amp right away.Today outside of some high end gear there's nothing like this.Consumer grade audio or mid-fi today is just a black plain box with a knob.Great piece BTW.

 

[drdetroit55]

Yup!

 

[drdetroit55]

I too have a Fisher X202 and love it! I can drive Vandersteen 2ce Signatures with no problem. So sweet! I listen to "The Civil Wars" and Joy and John Paul with his Martin D0018 are right in my living room floating in front of and between the Vandersteens. I get goosebumps regularly. I also have owned the AR XA and later an AR XB turntables loved them too.

 

[nyhifihead]

@INdycar thats a nice threshhold, I lust for one as well


Onkyo Integra M504- super musical amp with clean 165wpc.

 

[onepixel]

Some very nice gear. Some not so nice photos. I wrote this basic photo primer awhile back. Do you stuff some justice.
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/photography-101-basics.65858/#post-645713

 

[Indycar]

Another piece I would have liked to have owned. I was in high school when i saw this set-up and I remembered how much I loved the diagram on the preamp.

 

[Connor G]

Another piece I would have liked to have owned. I was in high school when i saw this set-up and I remembered how much I loved the diagram on the preamp.

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Is that... Philips???

 

[Sansui77]

My rare combo from 1987....WOW



Couple of others.


Might as well add a TT

 

[Uncle Paul]

Vintage eye and ear candy









Also this:

Combined with this:

 

[Duane]

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My rare combo from 1987....WOW

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What CD player is this?

 

[Sansui77]

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What CD player is this?

Sansui Alpha 907 cd player. Mates with the integrated alpha amp.

 

[Ds2000]

Just shy of true vintage at 23 years but still really beefy industrial high end design.
I'd like a pair.