MR71

CarlV

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I've been out detailing a MR71 I bought from fellow AKer and JBL
fan DonC. I got a PM at the same time as I was planning to go
up in Don's area so I stopped by to pick it up. It was great to meet another AKer face to face and look at a bunch of toys. ;)
I took about 3 days with it on my variac as it had been sitting for years, it does have a little rust on top of the chassis but the front is NM. It fired up nicely and beats the snot out of the other tuners
I have for reception. I was picking up San Jose stations in stereo with a piece of wire for an antenna. Not even my Scott 350 will do that. I have a hill and the east bay hill range in this path. The sound is better than I expected really nice and warm, great separation too.Typical McIntosh gear.:p:
It will make it into the house soon.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, pics coming! :cool:
Thanks for a good deal DonC!

Carl
 
Hey Rich,
You need another tuner as much as I do! ;) Are you setting up
another system? If I find one it's yours.....maybe. :D

Carl
 
Thanks crusaire,
I will bring it in and see what it does behind Mc
gear tonight. I have all 3 MC2100's freshly waxed and detailed and have one in place to play with bi amping to this weekend with the MC275 and JBL CS3115's. :)

Carl
 
I'm glad that you are happy with the tuner. You have it looking a lot better already!
So you could tell that I'm a JBL fan. Must have been the five pairs in the living room that gave me away!
 
Hmm... all McIntosh with arrays, 2 MC2500's, C22..... OK! :p:
Nothing like a system with ample headroom. ;)
One more pic, the cabinet had a good sized water stain and
minor damage so here is my best shot at making the best of it.
Not too bad I think. The camera has been kind.

Carl
 
Wow, that was perfect hitting the sumbit key Don! You sure have
a nice corral of JBL's. A lot of elbow grease into the tuner and now
it looks almost as good as it plays. Thanks for thinking of me. :)

Carl
 
:mad: One of my 6BL8's just up and lost it's vacum last night. :mad:

A real Amperex/ France McIntosh labeled tube and it has perfect
lettering on it! :mad:

Now I can't play with my new toy. :mad:

Carl :rolleyes:
 
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Carl V,

Great find on your MR71. Interesting it so soundly thrashed your Scott 350.

What were the other tuners it kicked butt on?

Thanks. :eek:
 
I was using stuff that's sitting in the garage, nothing fancy. I have an old HK TA230(?) receiver which is mono in the tuner, and a Sherwood 5000 w/3000 that's mono tuner too. Figures the mono's would have a head start with "one" channel to pull, but they don't. Kinda like the tuner shootout - very good units but not gone through and verified. They are just sitting around, I will never use them. The Scott pair are my garage duty workhorse, a bit underpowered for me but probably that's for the best. :D
I was surprised with the Scott too, it is a great tuner IMHO.

Carl
 
No kidding! I never thought to look at a cross reference and
there was just 6BL8 on the chassis. :nerd: Well 6U8's I have
plenty of. I'll pop one in for now. Thanks, Terry!

Carl
 
Originally posted by CarlV
I took about 3 days with it on my variac as it had been sitting for years, it does have a little rust on top of the chassis but the front is NM. It fired up nicely and beats the snot out of the other tuners
I have for reception.
Carl

Could you explain your process for using your variac?
Thanks.
 
Good question! I've read so many approaches that I am not sure
if there is gospel on this. I'm not a tech either.
I am in no hurry to fire anything up and most of what I've read is
not more 10v an hour until line voltage is achived. I do this out
in the garage and as I'm in no hurry I let it sit at 15volts for a day
with no particular reason to do this. Then I work at the 10 volts
at not less than an hour which usually ends up 2-3 days from there cause I tend to forget about it. When I do get to 60 volts I
stick around a few and make sure nothing is getting too warm
before I leave it.
Maybe Terry or Ron or another one of our pro's will chime in on this with the real deal on this. It would certainly make a great "sticky".

Carl
 
I should add when doing an amplifier you need to have some sort of speaker load. :)

Carl
 
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