Bandrunner
20-01-2020, 17:47
There y'go.
Over the years I kept getting given some older audio gear that I never really sought out, it just landed on me.
I knew it was reasonably good stuff, but time had taken its toll on it, so some of it needed some care and attention / repair.
Right now there's a pair of Leak 3080s which I re-drivered a few years ago with some cheap and cheerful budget units, which sound ok to me.
The originals sounded better before they died, of course, but it wasn't economically viable to have them rebuilt.
They're just driven by an AV amp and form the backbone of my home cinema system, but I must say they help in a large way to do justice to anything the amp can handle.
The oldest piece of audio gear I was using for the past couple of years as a PC sound system is a Grundig STG 3091 solid state receiver/ amp which sounded great; lovely tone from it.
Looking it up, I discovered it was quite expensive in Germany in 1968 or so - nearly a thousand DM, and aimed at the well-to-do buyers who just wanted something that sounded good.
I'm convinced that Grundig deliberately made it sound as close to their previous valve amps as they could - and in that, they succeeded quite well, at least to my ears.
Got other old gear kicking around, like Kenwood amps and receivers from the 80s, Toshiba pre-amp and amp from the 70s, both of which are in use driving the workshop sounds... I do like a bit of banging choons while i wield the spanners. Luckily I have no near neighbours, so I can wazz it up high when I feel like it.
Dave
Over the years I kept getting given some older audio gear that I never really sought out, it just landed on me.
I knew it was reasonably good stuff, but time had taken its toll on it, so some of it needed some care and attention / repair.
Right now there's a pair of Leak 3080s which I re-drivered a few years ago with some cheap and cheerful budget units, which sound ok to me.
The originals sounded better before they died, of course, but it wasn't economically viable to have them rebuilt.
They're just driven by an AV amp and form the backbone of my home cinema system, but I must say they help in a large way to do justice to anything the amp can handle.
The oldest piece of audio gear I was using for the past couple of years as a PC sound system is a Grundig STG 3091 solid state receiver/ amp which sounded great; lovely tone from it.
Looking it up, I discovered it was quite expensive in Germany in 1968 or so - nearly a thousand DM, and aimed at the well-to-do buyers who just wanted something that sounded good.
I'm convinced that Grundig deliberately made it sound as close to their previous valve amps as they could - and in that, they succeeded quite well, at least to my ears.
Got other old gear kicking around, like Kenwood amps and receivers from the 80s, Toshiba pre-amp and amp from the 70s, both of which are in use driving the workshop sounds... I do like a bit of banging choons while i wield the spanners. Luckily I have no near neighbours, so I can wazz it up high when I feel like it.
Dave