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In Reply to: Kutztown meet report. posted by Al Nico on May 12, 2007 at 18:04:44:
What a great time !!! While the selling seemed to have started later than usual on Friday, there was lots of hifi to be had...
Amps were plentiful, with many tube amps on hand. The Eico HF81s sounded great. I missed seeing the Altec Triode amps (1570B ?), but the deal that should be remembered was this fine package- McIntosh
C-20 + (2) MC-60s + Scott stereo integrated(7189 type)+ Scott FM multiplex tuner for $2800. The items were not even displayed as they sold as the seller opened his vehicle. From what I heard, the chrome shined ! At another table was an MR-71 selling for $800. There was another stereo Scott setup-the 7591 tubed 299 integrated, plus 350B FM stereo tuner, that sold for $550. My rare pair of Heathkit 55Watt W7s did not sell, but sounded real fine with the loaned Altec Fourteens. Many Thanks to HenryBasstardo for bringing the Altec monsters !!! My homebrew, 12 year old, Push-Pull 245 amps, made with chrome EH Scott power supply chassis, also did not sell. Sounding sweet on the Altec Fourteens at moderate listening levels, they did distort on loud sessions. Outdoors is a tough acoustical format. At my table was a rare, early stereo vintage ARKAY preamp and amp, that was traded toward some great turntable items, brought to me Saturday, from a fellow collector. He also bought my homebrew, chrome chassis SET amp that can use 6A3, 50, 10, VT-52, 801 tubes.
More amps that I saw were Dynaco SCA-35s at two diff. tables, a Heathkit W5, Bozak mixer/ss integrated mono that had three Peerless 4722 input trannies onboard, Motorola SE EL84 stereo amps on copper chassis(two setups), the largish military amps at two tables, Scott 6L6 mono integrated, some Masco amps, a few homebrews, and a seriously cute, early 1950s,light green, SE 6L6 amp by Allied.
Preamps with tubes were a little more scarce. I saw a few mono phono preamps around, some stereo phono/tape preamps at my table, including the rare Fisher PR-66 console option, which is an
outstanding sounding phono stage. We listened with a hot rodded Shure M65. There was also a stereo, dual 12AX7 chrome phono/tape unit, a sleeper from Heath, the AA-20 stereo preamp, an EICO HF-85, and more.
Turntables were to be found at many tables. Vintage Duals abounded. Al Nico's RekOkut B12H went quickly, plus some tonearms showed up ! Shure tonearms that needed work were available. A rare, mid to late '50s, IS Velvet Touch mono arm, with extra headshells, new in the box, fetched $100. I heard about a three arm score that included a Gray unipivot(late model, not the cool shiny black top), a Micro Trak, plus, an Ortofon 309, that brought $850 for the lot.
I brought many cartridges and stylii. Mono collectors always need more stylii for their GE VR carts. I made three collectors very happy with NIB stylii. Another hardcore collector bought my NIB Shure N44-3, a 78 diamond tipped stylus. Diamonds for 78s are very hard to source. I also got paid for a setup that I will put together and send tomorrow, which includes a Dual 1019 cart carrier, Stanton 680EL, plus an extra 78 stylus that I made, which should really make that collector very happy.
Speakerwise, I saw Celestion Ditton 100s with great tweeters, KLH dual 4 inch, ported, full range mini-monitors, Fried mini monitors, a University corner enclosure with 12" coax, Dynaco A25s, Bose floor standing speakers, Polk Audio floor standers(that cooked very loudly), Epos monitors, EV Aristocrats from two diff. vendors, a Karlson 8" enclosure, AR 4Xs, Jensen RP 302 tweeters, a rare British Stentorian full range 10 or 12 incher(hard to see as the dealer whisked it away under his arm), Lafayette 12 inch coaxes(probably by Coral), one Realistic Electrostatic, a 12 inch full range Jensen with huge AlNico magnet, and more. The four-way or five-way Corals, that a vendor brought to demo, sounded nice, also.
Certainly, a good to great time was had by all. Many folks who came Saturday, especially the many after 9 AM arrivers, seemed to not even know about the Friday start ! I looked through a 4000 tube collection that was brought, only to buy six tubes ! Two of them were 7241s though, an elusive triode find. For the vendors, it is a very strenuous task, with all the loading and unloading and reloading and driving and unloading and finally nodding out...
Still, I wish this could happen quarterly, or even monthly !
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- Kutztown meet = Most Excellent Adventure... - Interstage Tranny 13:48:09 05/13/07 (1)
- Re: Kutztown meet = Most Excellent Adventure... - Interstage Tranny 16:28:51 05/13/07 (0)
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