Pilot console ID?
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bustedguild
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Howdy, Mike. Went and looked at it today...mostly for the furniture aspect. I have no idea what the receiver model is (though it is a Pilot, at least by label). The unit is a Model 201, though I can't find any info on it. A peak around back let me know that it is indeed tubed... Let me know if you end up with it.
hm, may not be one of their best. Looks like an Autoslim changer, which was Garrard's low end model from the early-mid 60s. There were a pile of variants on that model, but the small platter ones are the cheaper cut.
Still though, we're probably talking low end of a good manufacturer, so their low end is not quite the low end of say a Philco or Emerson. Its probably more on the order of entry level Fisher, which did not suck.
Still though, we're probably talking low end of a good manufacturer, so their low end is not quite the low end of say a Philco or Emerson. Its probably more on the order of entry level Fisher, which did not suck.
Another AK'er found one years back...
Well the good Doc said he did not want the console and PM me and asked if I wanted to contact the seller. Seeing that I was close to Cleveland. So I did and he said he would sell it for $50, (Doc had allready Haggled the price down). I contacted the guy who had the Sams folder on Epay and he told me that it had 6GW8 tubes in it so I just assumed it would be push pull.
It turns out the console was in Canton so now its about 2 hours from my place and its snowing and blowing outside and just to top it off it was only about 7 degrees outside.
I drove to guys house and he tells me it is at his Mothers house which was 5 more miles. Well that 5 five miles turned out to be about 10. Then when I get there I looked at the console and its only a single ended 6GW8 and the transformers were kind of small, about like you would see in a Zeinth or Magnavox console pull. Of course he just had to turn it on and show me that it worked. OOCH no variac. Well I did see something that made my day there was a Pilot MPX adapter in the cabinet so I bought the console pretty much just for that. Seeing how I was a little dissapointed about my purchase I just kind of threw the console in the back of the truck.
When I got home a friend of mine said lets have a listen before I stripped the console. We did and it sounded pretty decent on FM but the MPX unit did not work so I plugged a cheap CD player in where the MPX was. this is its only AUX it had. Holy Smokes this thing sounds excellent. I could not believe what I was hearing. This little pilot will give my Fiher 400 or my Scott 340B a run for their money. Granted It does not have near the power but this thing sounds so sweet. I don't know if its because its single ended or if its the tube rectifer or what but I sure do like it
Now I don't know if I have the heart to strip it or not. I know that I will have to recap it and give it a general servicing. I was only using the speakers that were in the console which the tweeters were Jensen specials not sure what the woofers were but I'm guessing they are also Jensens. I can't believe what an ass I was just throwing the console in the truck and putting some nasty scratches in it.
I learned a valuable lesson here. NEVER JUDGE A CONSOLE BY THE COVER.
I will try to post some pics later.
OH I FORGOT THANKS DOC
No....
Like gadget73 says it looks like a Garrard Auto slim stacker in there pretty much the most basic Garrard at the time. Pilots were always considered pretty good AFAIK but I don't have any *specific* knowledge on those but lotta folks here do.
I think it's safe also to assume like gadget73 says it's a basic model might even be single ended outputs but some of those can be sleepers and sound pretty alright !.
You could drill down in Google or whatever with Boolean operator :
maybe Pilot AND stereo AND Garrard or Pilot AND Garrard OR Autoslim and so on ............
A Dual 1019 stacker or Garrard Lab 80 or A 70 pusher might be nice in there and close to period correct pot a high output MM Stanton 5xx in there and let it rock.
Presumably being a low end model it might not have that many gain stages but probably came with an M M cartridge anyway .
http://www.vinylengine.com/library/garrard/autoslim.shtml
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