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Show Us Your Sonys!!!

monsteramp said:
hello dear friends of sony i post here my last favorite toy class A with five pair of transistors per channel.


:tresbon: best regards
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i had two ta-n902 so far check bias ,it s a bit tricky, sound in low frequence is killer
 
jocko_nc said:
I found this one at the GW this week... A STR6120 that ought to clean up well enough.

Funny, this thing only has FM band. ???.
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Congrats! Great find. Take care of her;they are not many.
 
Nice find YB2. I'll be very interested to hear how the combination fares against the other equipment you have.

Thanks real-mandak, YB2 has kindly offered me some samples so I can determine if this unit functions and try it out.
 
the-real-mandak said:
Maxell still makes them: http://www.maxell-usa.com/index.aspx?id=3;23;422;425&a=info&pid=211
Ever since Emtec (BASF) went out of business we switched to Maxell, they work quite fine, it's not Sony but they are ok.

I think I recorded on around 500 tapes by now and none has come back due to tape error.
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The Maxell Pro are the best DAT tapes: lowest error rate even over large rec/play cycles and best mechanical reliability. The ony ones I use since about 1997/98.
 
Holst said:
Hey Axel, are you ever going to do anything with those ST-5100 scans I sent ya?
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Holst,
the 5100 isn't yet planned but eventually will. I think I also got a japanese catalog for it, along the 5600.
 
absolon said:
Nice find YB2. I'll be very interested to hear how the combination fares against the other equipment you have. Thanks real-mandak, YB2 has kindly offered me some samples so I can determine if this unit functions and try it out.
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Thanks. Does anyone have the owner's manual for the TA-2000F? Would much appreciate a copy. I'll get the DAT tapes out next week, now that I've dug through the basement and found them. They came with a DTC-2600 I bought from a commercial station. Sent the DTC on to Axel as a parts unit.
 
I'll see about getting the manual scanned and either email it or surface mail it depending on size. I'll let you know if I need your address.
 
Hey, now we have an TA-N902 inflation :thmbsp:

I´ll receive AK Fellow Yves´ TA-E900 as a loan for four weeks (:music: :music: :music: :music:).

I hope that heavy workload in combination with (re-)emerging health problems will allow for an extensive and joyful comparative test, so please wish me some luck and fun.

I could also provide some nudies, if s.o. is interested.
 
Glad to see you are still around Mirko! :wave:

Please do post nudies after you've had the blast of your life playing with these toys :D

What are you gonna partner that ta-e900 with ? Do you think the sound will be that different from the Wega pre you are using ?
 
My homebuild speakers are still not ready, as well as the repair/upgrade of the SS-G5´s , so I have to try again with my small RCF speakers.

The pre amplifiers to compare with:

- Wega Lab Zero
- TA-E86B
- L-02A (the phono section of it)

I am really thrilled to hear how the headamp plays together with my MC pickup.

Power amplifiers (in order of rated power):

- Edisone CA-1 (20W pure Class A)
- Sony TA-N7B
- Yamaha B-1
- Technics SE-A3 (hope I get it repaired in the next weeks, that would be really great, because it is the same vintage like the TA-E900)

Sources:

- Sony SCD-777ES
- PS-8750 with DL-304 and Empire MM pickups

That´s more than enough stuff to play arround for weeks ...
 
junkaudio said:
i had two ta-n902 so far check bias ,it s a bit tricky, sound in low frequence is killer
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hi junkaudio what you have two of them:banana: i fgure you use both in monaural operation 400w per channel with this ones that was a incredible sound?:thmbsp:

you told about the bias it was (a bit tricky) do you remember what value you have ajusted in , for mine around 69mv between the two test points,could you tell me more about thanks.
best regards.
 
absolon said:
I'll see about getting the manual scanned and either email it or surface mail it depending on size. I'll let you know if I need your address.
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Thanks, Dick. Hold off for a bit, as someone PM'd earlier stating that they would be sending me a copy. I'll give you shout if that falls through.
 
monsteramp said:
hi junkaudio what you have two of them:banana: i fgure you use both in monaural operation 400w per channel with this ones that was a incredible sound?:thmbsp:

you told about the bias it was (a bit tricky) do you remember what value you have ajusted in , for mine around 69mv between the two test points,could you tell me more about thanks.
best regards.
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yes 69 mv is right mine drift allot and the pot has do be changed ,also the speaker relay was replaced on mine .i sold both one year ago but never had amps with such dark base the mid treble was not so my taste .but i still miss the sonys ,exellent buildquality ,read the vintageknob sony took 2 years to devellop that amp

i used them to power the infinity kappa 9 for low pass ,mcintosh for hp
 
axel said:
The Maxell Pro are the best DAT tapes: lowest error rate even over large rec/play cycles and best mechanical reliability. The ony ones I use since about 1997/98.
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Yes we are quite happy with them, we are still using around a 1000 tapes a year so price is also important to us. We used FUJIFILM fore some time also but now they only make DTRS master tapes for audio use, so to get the whole line we switched to Maxell. DAT is actually getting hard to find, not that many of the big brands make them (I still see Sony tapes now and then, if the price is ok grab them).
I found this page witch has both:
http://www.tapeandmedia.com/dat.asp
 
Darn you Glenn!

You sure know how to make me envious. Everytime I get a hankering to buy some Sony gear or am tempted to pick it up off eBay - there you are with a bright clean example.

BTW, I was watching that TA-2000F and might have pulled the trigger this weekend.
 
Got a Sony TA-F70 a few days ago for a friend. Have been testing it with a Sony DVP-S725D and some KEF IQ1's, and I must say that I am very pleased by the sound. Very deep and wide soundstage, good attack and dynamics when needed, nice imaging pretty tight bass with reasonably good extension given the small speakers, smooth midrange and silky highs. Technically inside it looks fine, no leaking caps, no buzz or cracks anywhere on any inputs. Might have to do some work on it sometime though, just as a precaution.

Overall it is not a match for my VFET setup obviously (always sounds like lifting a veil off music when I play music) but I could be perfectly happy with a setup like this, absolutely satisfying. It plays music the way I like it to be played.

Definitely not as good or cool looking as a ta-e86b/ta-n86b combo, with whom it shares many characteristics technically, but I dig the led meters, tacky as they might be. It's just cool :smoke:
 

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