I think that your a winner no matter which one you keep. They all look like they are in great condition.
Tube Amp dr sells a version of the GE short bottle 6L6GC. I have used them and they are excellent. No affiliation. I used the European home page to avoid favoring any US distributors.
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Nice score. What is the story?
Yep the 296 is a keeper!
The 399 is a great sounding amp but the tuner is not true stereo despite the Stereomaster handle. It is binaural stereo which is not the same and no longer supported.
The usual....90 year old single man in a crappy home died. He had a lot of gear, a Steinway in the living room, but wall plasters were falling apart, and the kitchen was right out of the ‘50s. The lady was selling the content of the house for the sister. The junky house that’s falling apart is worth over a million dollars, just because it’s in the Bay Area....
You know most people of that era , post WW2, had a different idea, of appearance. In other words they really did not care about having the latest sneakers, expensive cars, fancy clothes. But to their credit they left to their offspring things worth more than a flashy car, like hanging on to some expensive real estate. Obviously he was a person of good tastes, but not such a handyman.The usual....90 year old single man in a crappy home died. He had a lot of gear, a Steinway in the living room, but wall plasters were falling apart, and the kitchen was right out of the ‘50s. The lady was selling the content of the house for the sister. The junky house that’s falling apart is worth over a million dollars, just because it’s in the Bay Area....
My Fisher 400 came from a house like that. It was hidden in a closet on a shelf covered with an inch of dust. Speaker wires went through the ceiling into the living room where there were a pair of custom built speakers. The elderly man that lived in the house listened to a lot of Glenn Miller and other big band stuff. The house exterior had the worst paint job. Flaking paint had simply been painted over repeatedly to hide the fact that it was flaking. The interior paint had been neglected too. House is now remodeled with vinyl siding.The usual....90 year old single man in a crappy home died. He had a lot of gear, a Steinway in the living room, but wall plasters were falling apart, and the kitchen was right out of the ‘50s. The lady was selling the content of the house for the sister. The junky house that’s falling apart is worth over a million dollars, just because it’s in the Bay Area....