I thought I was back just in time this afternoon to make preparations for the Men's title game: Louisville & Michigan. Insteadthere's a MAJOR fight underway brewing inside the listening room. A bit of background first. In the past year, I had been saving up furiously for a Black WooAudio WA5. I reached my savings goal on 31 March. And this past week, Jack and I have been in talks over how I wanted this new amp "spec'd" out.
Well, today I had an appointment out of town and on my way there I tripped over some vintage iron. Bought it Johnny-on-the-spot; now homewith it. BUT, I had to use my tube amp money for the solid-state purchase...
, say what?! My thinking is that "Extremely rare" justifies things a bit.
I'm going to name my new amp "Baby sinister!"
Baby needs a bubble bath, no question. Gonna put it in the shop to get it dolled-up & checked up. This pix does not do the amp justice - this amp is really BIG.
wow!!!! i cold not imagine it in my dreams!!!
love "Baby sinister!"
please give some more pic back and front
Next week, I'm dropping the amp off to the Stereo Doctor for spa treatment (rehab?).Will shoot a handful of pix when I get my hands up around its neck once again. 4 days, 4 weeks or 4 months... no idea.
OMG.... that is a thing of beauty my friend. I haven't even seen one in real life yet. Gotta love those random lifetime deals. Reminds me of how I got my SX1980.
Before I went to off to med school, my mom invited a fellow doc she works with and his family. Which of course meant his wife and brat of son. We were the same age and I always despised the guy.... had a real sense of entitlement. Always been a pretty frugal guy, thats how my mom raised me, and he always gave me crap about buying things used or second hand. Well we were in my old room and i was searching on CL and saw an ad about a "broken yamaha receiver" for $25. It didn't have a picture, specs or model number in the ad. Text the guy and he said that the cord got chopped off during the move from Dallas to Oklahoma and he just got it last year. He was just down the road a bit so I went there (with the brat since he wanted to come) and saw it a decently specded receiver that had hdmi pass through and all that. So I asked him, "anything else wrong with it"? He said, "no, not that i know of". Figured I'd take the chance for $25 bucks for a pretty damn good receiver. Just when I was about to hand him the money he said, "you want some speakers too? Just bought a new receiver/speaker. blu-ray player bundle combo. Never used CL before and I don't want to post another ad for them. I said what kind and how much? Don't really know the brand, my brother pieced this set together but add another $25 and they're yours". Low and behold, they're some athena WS series speakers a ws60 and 4 ws15's. Couldn't believe my luck as I had WS100's from when comp usa closed out. Handed him 50 and was on my merry way. Got home, went to the attic, chopped off a plug from some old lamp....soldered it on and it powered right up. Needless to say the guy was envious about the receiver and speakers saying "I only have this POS old pioneer my uncle gave me; it doesn't even do surround sound!". Interested but didn't want to sound like I was I slip in, "can't be that bad; how old is it?" Replies"dunno, but its silver and has WOOD! Really Wood? ". This is when my interest peaked....told him that since I just got this receiver i'd trade him my older yamaha receiver for his pos one. He jumped on the chance; borrowed his dad's car and we left for his house with my old receiver in tow. Go to his room and in the corner, on the floor with his ps3 on it and dried red goo next to a fallen over cup layed a sx1980. Had a face likebut my insides were like
Handed him the old receiver.... helped me move the thing as it's heavy as crap!!!!! There were some scratches on top and side and the red goo came pretty close to the topside vents all the while hoping nothing spilled inside. As soon as they left I inspected the thing, cleaned it up the best I could. Opened her up... used a little deoxit, plugged her in and it powered on to its glory. Mostly worked as far as I could tell some noise and scratches could be heard and a couple bulbs were out. Brought it to my electronics repair guy; he nearly fell over when I brought it to him.... he replaced a few a things and put in LED's. That was my 2nd best CL deal ever.... Oh how I miss the thing; its in safe keeping back at home while im stuck in NY. Nothing like good ole SS raw power.
OMG.... that is a thing of beauty my friend. I haven't even seen one in real life yet. Gotta love those random lifetime deals. Reminds me of how I got my SX1980.
Before I went to off to med school, my mom invited a fellow doc she works with and his family. Which of course meant his wife and brat of son. We were the same age and I always despised the guy.... had a real sense of entitlement. Always been a pretty frugal guy, thats how my mom raised me, and he always gave me crap about buying things used or second hand. Well we were in my old room and i was searching on CL and saw an ad about a "broken yamaha receiver" for $25. It didn't have a picture, specs or model number in the ad. Text the guy and he said that the cord got chopped off during the move from Dallas to Oklahoma and he just got it last year. He was just down the road a bit so I went there (with the brat since he wanted to come) and saw it a decently specded receiver that had hdmi pass through and all that. So I asked him, "anything else wrong with it"? He said, "no, not that i know of". Figured I'd take the chance for $25 bucks for a pretty damn good receiver. Just when I was about to hand him the money he said, "you want some speakers too? Just bought a new receiver/speaker. blu-ray player bundle combo. Never used CL before and I don't want to post another ad for them. I said what kind and how much? Don't really know the brand, my brother pieced this set together but add another $25 and they're yours". Low and behold, they're some athena WS series speakers a ws60 and 4 ws15's. Couldn't believe my luck as I had WS100's from when comp usa closed out. Handed him 50 and was on my merry way. Got home, went to the attic, chopped off a plug from some old lamp....soldered it on and it powered right up. Needless to say the guy was envious about the receiver and speakers saying "I only have this POS old pioneer my uncle gave me; it doesn't even do surround sound!". Interested but didn't want to sound like I was I slip in, "can't be that bad; how old is it?" Replies"dunno, but its silver and has WOOD! Really Wood? ". This is when my interest peaked....told him that since I just got this receiver i'd trade him my older yamaha receiver for his pos one. He jumped on the chance; borrowed his dad's car and we left for his house with my old receiver in tow. Go to his room and in the corner, on the floor with his ps3 on it and dried red goo next to a fallen over cup layed a sx1980. Had a face like
but my insides were like
Handed him the old receiver.... helped me move the thing as it's heavy as crap!!!!! There were some scratches on top and side and the red goo came pretty close to the topside vents all the while hoping nothing spilled inside. As soon as they left I inspected the thing, cleaned it up the best I could. Opened her up... used a little deoxit, plugged her in and it powered on to its glory. Mostly worked as far as I could tell some noise and scratches could be heard and a couple bulbs were out. Brought it to my electronics repair guy; he nearly fell over when I brought it to him.... he replaced a few a things and put in LED's. That was my 2nd best CL deal ever.... Oh how I miss the thing; its in safe keeping back at home while im stuck in NY. Nothing like good ole SS raw power.
That was impossible to read. Can I buy a carriage return??Cool story though!!
