So I bought a really nice looking Sherwood S5500 Series III. Sounds fantastic. Looks like all the tubes are original:
2 Telefunken 12AX7 in the phono section
1 RCA grey plate in the tone 12AX7 socket
2 Mullard short plates in the phase splitter positions
4 GE 7868 power tubes
The RCA was...
I have a Bose 901 series 3 active equalizer that has a crackle in the left channel.The unit has been recapped, and all transistors in the left channel outside of one 2n3906 have been replaced. I swapped the 2n3906 with the identical transistor from the right channel (which does not produce this...
They're definitely Series 3, in black satin, serial numbers are close but not consecutive, their feet are missing, and their bottoms are a bit scuffed. However, they're in otherwise good shape and they sounded good hooked up to a 15 year old Yamaha AV receiver. I intend to put them up on 12"...