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Aug 18, 2013 at 11:07 PM Post #24,737 of 24,807
Aug 19, 2013 at 2:19 AM Post #24,739 of 24,807
Wow, what a shame that these have dust in the drivers. They are in such excellent condition otherwise.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321188516719?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
 
Aug 19, 2013 at 3:53 AM Post #24,740 of 24,807
Well, all goo is almost gone. Except some is stuck on both the pads and the driver housing! I'm surprised no one has commented on my swearing yet, you must have heard it across the big pond.
 
Aug 19, 2013 at 5:01 AM Post #24,741 of 24,807
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Well, all goo is almost gone. Except some is stuck on both the pads and the driver housing! I'm surprised no one has commented on my swearing yet, you must have heard it across the big pond.

 
Trust me I can relate to the pain you're going through now when I owned the original Lambda's and the black double tape turned into a mess between the baffle and the pads. It took me lot of elbow grease and effort cleaning the gunk off till I tried a substitute product similar to Goo Gone.
 
Aug 19, 2013 at 5:06 AM Post #24,742 of 24,807
Ohh well. I'll try to clean it off with ethanol later today...
 
Aug 19, 2013 at 6:04 AM Post #24,743 of 24,807
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Goo Gone works wonders for this sort of stuff. It completely stripped some black gunk off a secondhand pair of K701 that I picked up a while back.

I have also used  'Goof Off'  which is available at hardware stores, it does the trick.  
 
Aug 19, 2013 at 6:10 AM Post #24,744 of 24,807
Should've known that earlier...
 
Aug 19, 2013 at 12:49 PM Post #24,745 of 24,807
I'm starting to regret selling my SR-303 because I'm finding it to be almost impossible to find any of the vintage earspeakers I wanted to replace them with. Now, I have a big fancy full-size amplifier (SRM-1/MK2) and nothing but an electret (SR-40) to use them with.
 
Aug 19, 2013 at 12:59 PM Post #24,746 of 24,807
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I'm starting to regret selling my SR-303 because I'm finding it to be almost impossible to find any of the vintage earspeakers I wanted to replace them with. Now, I have a big fancy full-size amplifier (SRM-1/MK2) and nothing but an electret (SR-40) to use them with.


You will have to be patient as is the case with vintage gear. You will notice that most of the vintage gear starts popping up during autumn and winter.
 
Aug 19, 2013 at 2:28 PM Post #24,747 of 24,807
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You will have to be patient as is the case with vintage gear. You will notice that most of the vintage gear starts popping up during autumn and winter.

Interesting...the season for normal bias hunting will open soon.
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Ali
 
Aug 19, 2013 at 7:23 PM Post #24,748 of 24,807
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I'm starting to regret selling my SR-303 because I'm finding it to be almost impossible to find any of the vintage earspeakers I wanted to replace them with. Now, I have a big fancy full-size amplifier (SRM-1/MK2) and nothing but an electret (SR-40) to use them with.

LOL! The smartest thing you could've done was keep those SR-303 till you find and buy a vintage Lambda then compare and sell off whichever one you prefer least (which imo is hard). But hey at least you got those SR-40's sounding there best with the SRM1 MK2 lol. Fyi, they sound better on Pro-bias if you haven't tried.
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You will have to be patient as is the case with vintage gear. You will notice that most of the vintage gear starts popping up during autumn and winter.

Autumn, Spring and Summer a lot of channel imbalanced Lambda's pop up here.
 
Aug 19, 2013 at 7:33 PM Post #24,749 of 24,807
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LOL! The smartest thing you could've done was keep those SR-303 till you find and buy a vintage Lambda then compare and sell off whichever one you prefer least (which imo is hard).

 
My income situation as a teenager is horrendous. I couldn't even afford to match your apparent daily alcohol intake, much less afford to buy new (old) electronics without selling off old ones.
 
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