Bargains on ebay?

[Jac Hawk]

that amp you have is 1980..

Look heres the matching tuner with TRIO branding



Heres a scan from 1980 product brochure showing both the amp & tuner with Kenwood branding

So do you have the tuner mate?

[Rare Bird]

Fancy a B62 £200.00?

[Barry]

Fancy a B62 £200.00?

Well, yes - but not the one that's currently on offer.

[Rare Bird]

Well, yes - but not the one that's currently on offer.

you thinking what im thinking in all honesty i recon you'd get a better sound from a 'PR99' imho

[Barry]

you thinking what I'm thinking In all honesty I reckon you'd get a better sound from a 'PR99' imho

Probably - and you can use them in the vertical position.

[dantheman91]

mate of mine is selling these opps something when wrong!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Linn-Isobarik-...item3a63b2585c

[Spectral Morn]

Have just spent much of the weekend anguishing over bidding on this baby:

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI...m=320658730535

A Studer C37 ¼” two-track tape deck in excellent condition complete with VU meters, a machine that I have lusted after for years.

This is the legendary machine, similar to the model used to mix down the Beatles’s Sergeant Pepper album (actually that was the four-track version, the J37), but even so, it is a gorgeous example of Swiss engineering and a machine, which had been used in the most of the major recording studios in Europe.

So why did I pass this one up? Well sometimes your head does sensibly win over your heart. There were several doubts I had.

1. The first was having to collect it; it would have been a round trip of 160 miles (though it could have been much, much farther away).

2. It is physically large: 660mm wide, 533mm deep and 432mm tall. I’m not sure where I would have put it, or even whether it would have fitted into the boot of my car or on the rear seat.

3. It is very heavy: 78Kg; more than I could manage on my own.

But most importantly of all

4. Did I really want it? Previously tape (both reel-reel, or cassette) was a valid source of music for me, however these days they are minor and less important: to the extent that neither of my cassette decks are now part of my system; I am passing on most of my reel-reel machines to others who can use them, only keeping one machine to play the tapes I have recorded or those others have recorded for me.

So I let it go. Actually it went for a little more than would have been my maximum bid, though I could have well have increased that in order to secure a winning bid.


I’m now left wondering if I did do the right thing; I think I did – but have you seen the specification of these machines? And it was an ex-BBC item in excellent condition.

I shall content myself with the thought that I did do the right thing, and down a couple of glasses of wine. Here’s hoping that it went to someone who will use it to the full measure of its capability.

Damm – these decisions are hard to make sometimes!

I know what you mean Barry, I felt the same way about the Accuphase T101 tuner I got recently but having used it I am very glad I bought it



Regards D S D L

[Barry]

I know what you mean Barry, I felt the same way about the Accuphase T101 tuner I got recently but having used it I am very glad I bought it

Regards D S D L

Hi Neil

Thanks for the sympathy. I'm still wondering if I did the right thing: I doubt if I'll ever see another one so close to home, in such good condition and with VU meters ....

I should have mentioned that the C37 uses valves, and I wasn't sure if these are still available. The machines are no longer made and spare parts are few and far between, and when they do appear are expensive.

But at the end of the day, I doubt I would have used it fully and it would just have been a 'trophy'; a part of a growing 'museum' of audio gear.

Regards

[Reid Malenfant]

I'm still wondering if I did the right thing:

Hi Barry, i find that if i have any kind of doubt about about buying anything whether it's on ebay or in a shop then i don't buy it I have never regretted any decision i have made going by those guidelines.

If you are 100% sure it's for you then you know you have made the correct decision, any kind of doubt will probably come back & bite you if you did go for it sooner or later.

I think you made the correct decision at the end of the day as you still appear to be unsure

[Rare Bird]

Just won a loverly Revox 'A77' £70..

It landed this morning, brilliant double box packing but what a mess the machine is , i'm not happy one bit, it's needs a total rebuild & full cometics/pannels replacement.What i'm not happy about most of all is i bought this on the strength of it, although being silver, it has the brushed metal back pannel instead of the usual grey plastic ones, i can't save this pannel at all as it has a very deep reel impressions cut into it! Being a Mk.I it' needs a few updates anyway mainly the tape path transport has a fixed post guide, the Mk.II at least has a tensionable post.I got it very cheap so not too bad with what needs replacing...I want the later green backed PCB's fitting too.

One relief tho, it's an 1/2 track machine with amazing condition heads, which must have been replacements at some point with it being a Mk.I machine!

Watch for a seperate topic not too far away for a total rebuild of the machine all the way from bare bones chassis upwards.