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Finally, finally, finally.........a CT-7000 of my own

Yamaha B-2

Yamaha B-2

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Just bought a Yamaha CT-7000 for the princely sum of $295. I've been waiting to get one for under $600 for a couple of years and now this one for $295. The audio gods have definitely smiled on me today.......... :banana: :banana: :banana: Must be living right.

Spoke with the seller and she knows what she's doing about packing and shipping, so am feeling better about shipment (fingers crossed). Hopefully, we can beat USPS on this.
 
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:thmbsp: Congratulations!!!!!
Did you get the one with the broken string? That's an amazing price. Now you need find a T-2 :)
 
That's the one. Am still amazed. Even putting in the money for a complete refurb it will be less than most sell for. Guess the first really good weather kept the usual suspects away from their eBay accounts. Lucky me!!
 
junkaudio - Thank you.

The life of my CT-7000 has been consigned to the transportation gods and now resides with Fedex Ground. Left CA @ 2:56 am. May the gods smile upon me. :ntwrthy: :ntwrthy: :ntwrthy:
 
It's here!! Excellent cosmetic condition. Other than the idiot who put his ID number on the faceplate it is near-mint. Cabinet, as well. Too bad the string is broken. Guess I'll just send it on to Ken for his magic. Be silly to pay to ship it to CT and back and not have the rest of the work done. Yamaha, unfortunately, didn't do quite a good enough job on the PS. It overheats and tends to make the entire unit run too hot. Bad for everything. But, Ken has developed a fix for that. While I have been more than just a little pleased (make that very, very happy) with Mike's and Warren's work, this one goes to the guy who has done a dozen before. Full refurb and Ken's PS upgrade. Think I will have to put some holes in the beautiful cabinet to allow some airflow. Too hot is too hot. Even with Ken's fix. More pic's in a few months.

Physically, the CT-7000 is about the same size and weight as the ST-5000FW. My guess that back in their day, this was a "one up on you" effort from Yamaha.
 

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Someone just couldn't put those numbers on the chassis!? Anyway, very nice. I'd love to hear and see one in person...drive up through CT on your way to KB's and stop in!
 
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Someone just couldn't put those numbers on the chassis!? Anyway, very nice. I'd love to hear and see one in person...drive up through CT on your way to KB's and stop in!
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A $1000+ tuner back in 1978 and they engraved numbers on the front! :tears:

Well, is there anything to do about that - could a good machinist polish it out so that at least the numbers don't show? (Maybe Yamaha still has spares in stock someplace?)

Regardless, it's still a beautiful tuner inside and out! :yes:
 
looking good all shielded like my sony st-a7b
they don´t build stuff like that anymore :thmbsp:
the string repair should not be a big thing
 
Remeber the Sansui "MOSFET" stickers on their receivers? Maybe you could improvise a Yamaha logo sticker and cover the engraving?
 
There is what appears to be a black faced CT-7000 on eBay now that is local to me. It also has an engraved name or numbers on it, but they are on the side and not the front thankfully. I've never seen any of these that had a black face before. The wood cabinet is the rosewood veneer circa 1979 Yamaha, like my TC-1000 and YP-D71. It's already beyond my cheapskate budget, but perhaps another Yamaha fan is looking?? Anyone else have a Black CT-7000?
 

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I've always considered that tuner the ultimate STEALTH tuner with it's trap door to hide the complexity of control options and the internal shielded sections with their industry standard 50 ohm interconnects, nice score :thmbsp:

Be sure to give us a shoot out between the Sony when you get them both rockin and rollin :yes:

Lefty
 
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