Vintage Asylum

RE: They missed an obvious one!

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geraldm121

In Reply to: RE: They missed an obvious one! posted by Crazy Dave on April 13, 2011 at 12:11:14

Dave,

I had an SA600 with that beautiful lavender anodizing. I loved the build quality but it had constant reliability issues especially with DC offset. I was using Lancer 99's at the time and JBL replaced a pair of LE14's with no questions asked when I told them they were used with an SA600. My dealer called the SA660 an SA600 that worked :<} ah, memories!

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RE: They missed an obvious one! - Crazy Dave 10:40:34 04/14/11 (0)
I had Lancer 77's for quite a while then I gave them to my brother-in-law. They did not do all of the audiophile things but they just sounded good! I really enjoyed my time with them. My brother-in-law loves them! The woodwork on then was beautiful too!

Dave
You guys are killing me! .. - Crazy Dave 10:35:00 04/14/11 (1)
I really was hoping to get this beauty working! Maybe it is not in the cards.

Dave
- RE: You guys are killing me! .. - geraldm121 18:47:45 04/14/11 (0)
  Dave,
  
  Don't get me wrong I only wish you the best if you have an SA660/600 to re-build. It is a magnificent industrial design (by Bart Locanthi more well known for his JBL and Pioneer HPM speaker designs) with breakthrough circuitry for it's time. See below for a coupls of links that may be of help. The Dutch gentlemans restoration was truly a labor of love. Again good luck and let us know how it turns out.
  
  http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~mleach/.../tcir/tcir.pdf
  
  http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?15522-JBL-SA-600-total-restoration
  
  Oh and I recently purchased another pair of L99's to relive my audio childhood so you can go back!
  
  Regards, Jerry
RE: They missed an obvious one! - geraldm121 05:15:55 04/14/11 (0)
Oops, correction the SA600 was silver anodized the SA660 had the blueish/purple color. I went back and looked at some old spec sheets after posting.
Same here. - Dave Pogue 19:06:53 04/13/11 (0)
Beautiful amp. Sounded nice when it worked.

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