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GMAN wrote: In article .com, Peter Wieck wrote: On Jul 8, 2:15 pm, Laughing-at-DeserTBob wrote: http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.p...188257061&item You will get no takers at $80.... Or, if there are any residual brains in this world, $8. Many people value the sound that an old tube receiver provides . Most modern receivers are crap when it comes to audiophile audio, they are geared primarily for multichannel decoding of movies. This is true. But there's a big difference between a real tube amp with decent output transformers and this Pioneer junk. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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I think I would take a nice old Fisher 400 any day of the week!
I suspect one would go for about 1/4 of this asking price. "Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ... In article , GMAN wrote: In article .com, Peter Wieck wrote: On Jul 8, 2:15 pm, Laughing-at-DeserTBob wrote: http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.p...188257061&item You will get no takers at $80.... Or, if there are any residual brains in this world, $8. Many people value the sound that an old tube receiver provides . Most modern receivers are crap when it comes to audiophile audio, they are geared primarily for multichannel decoding of movies. This is true. But there's a big difference between a real tube amp with decent output transformers and this Pioneer junk. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Dave Edwards wrote:
I think I would take a nice old Fisher 400 any day of the week! I suspect one would go for about 1/4 of this asking price. Actually, $80 is about fair for a Fisher 400 in decent shape. The nice thing about the 400 is that it uses readily-available 7868 output tubes rather than the 7591s that some of the other Fisher receivers use. (There is a Russian 7591 equivalent which sounds good, but it's taller than the real thing, and too tall to close the case on a Fisher 500). The 7868 isn't the most linear thing around, but it's not half bad and those Fishers had surprisingly good output transformers. ---scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On Jul 19, 8:01 am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
Dave Edwards wrote: I think I would take a nice old Fisher 400 any day of the week! I suspect one would go for about 1/4 of this asking price. Actually, $80 is about fair for a Fisher 400 in decent shape. The nice thing about the 400 is that it uses readily-available 7868 output tubes rather than the 7591s that some of the other Fisher receivers use. (There is a Russian 7591 equivalent which sounds good, but it's taller than the real thing, and too tall to close the case on a Fisher 500). The 7868 isn't the most linear thing around, but it's not half bad and those Fishers had surprisingly good output transformers. Yes. They will make a silverface Deluxe/Deluxe Reverb perform great. You can use them in homebrew hi fi as well. |
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