Rick_B
New Head-Fier
BTW, I had to comment on your profile pic... I always loved those TR4's, as a matter of fact I shall be seeing some today, I'm on my way to a classic car show later!
As a side note I had the same experience as you with mail from Hong Kong, got here quicker than local mail!
I restored that 1962 TR4 from a basket case in the late seventies...I even drove it to a local transportation museum and it earned me a spot as their restoration manager...biggest mistake I made was selling that car, my 1967 390GT Mustang fastback, and my 1976 KZ-900...ahh well, the adventures of youth!
I miss British cars, they were so much fun to work on, and contrary to many beliefs, were not that bad as daily drivers....I had the TR4, a Spitfire, and restored also a Sprite and a Midget....I loved peeling my 6'3" self out of a Spridget....tiny little cars but I could fit in them, unlike the Honda S2000 or even the Miata of recent vintage.
Back to the subject of this thread, I'm impressed by the sound of this little amp...I've recently been using my Antique Sound Labs amp in transformer output mode with my HE-400i's...my impressions of this amp, with the coin base Sylvanias and a "real" NOS TungSol 12AX7 are very favorable, I need to do more evaluation and let the unit run in for a while before I do any real in depth analysis, but so far it is impressive.
I've been messing with electronics for over five decades, building, fixing, restoring, and using all kinds of audio and Ham Radio gear, doing a simple capacitor swap on this amp should be a doddle...with as good as it sounds stock, though, I wonder....
I've got a series of burn-in tracks running through the amp now and in a couple of days will listen more intently to see what the results tell me.
Thanks for the note!