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Luxman LV-107u Amp (I Need Your Help!)

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Posted on April 13, 2014 at 17:19:50
thetubeguy1954
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Hi guys,

I don't usually post in the vintage forum but I'm fairly well known in the Asylum. I'm hoping someone here can help me resolve what I cannot seem to resolve for myself. Many years ago now in the 1980's I heard the Luxman LV-107u integrated amp in an audio store I visited in Connecticut, where I used to live. I liked the looks and for the money on a set of Klipsch La Scalas the owner had in the store, I thought it sounded pretty darn nice. I thought to myself here's a nice, fairly decently priced ---{$1300}--- tubed amp I could recommend to my newbie friends that wanted to try tubes, but didn't want the usually tubes-related issues and looks.

Here's my dilemma. I actually made such a recommendation to a friend at that same time. Unbeknownst to me some 22 years later that same friend who still lived in Connecticut, found the paper he wrote the Luxman name and model on! Apparently he came across a AD in the local newspaper that was selling a Luxman BRID-series integrated amp. Only God knows why he didn't make an attempt to locate me here in Florida BEFORE making a purchase based on my 22 year old recommendation! But he didn't and he made the purchase anyways.

Sometime long after his purchase he located me and came down to spent a week with me. That's how I learned about his purchase. He couldn't remember the exact model of his BRID integrated amp, but he told me he knows it only has one tube in the front "window." Not two like the ones I showed him on the internet. He couldn't remember the model # of this one tube BRID amp. On top of that it is packed away and in storage facility in CT and for reason I won't go into here, he cannot access the amp for about 18 months.

Does anyone here know the model # of the Luxman BRID integrated amp that has only one tube in the front "window?" If you do will you please answer this post with the model # so I can see what it looks like and buy him a real high-quality tube to replace the one that is presently in it? I want it to be a present for when he can get to his amp in 18 months. At the very same time he's going to have a set of Sachiko cabinets made after hearing my Sachikos with the Mastersound Reference 845 amp I use. Your help will be deeply appreciated by both myself and my friend. And it will mean the world to me to be able to have that amp sounding better than it ever did before for him.

Thanks to any and all who respond.

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Thetubeguy1954 (Tom)

Central Florida Audio Society -- SETriodes Group -- Space Coast Audio Society
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Uh..., posted on April 13, 2014 at 20:08:39
realistico
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According to this website (link below) the BRID series went from the LV-101 up through the LV-107 and the ones with tubes--LV-103, 104, 105 and 107 all have two tubes in that window. I had an LV-105u and it was a pretty nice integrated amp, one I sort of wish I still had. As I recall the tubes in it are 6CG7/6FQ7, so I would imagine all the models used the same. Unless there was some other Luxman amp that only had one tube in it but if so, I am unfamiliar with it.

good luck,
--Matt
"When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot."
--Dalai Lama

 

Possibility of one tube missing?, posted on April 14, 2014 at 06:58:20
Guess your friend has no photos available of his unit?

 

RE: Uh..., posted on April 14, 2014 at 11:57:01
thetubeguy1954
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Thanks I did a lot of online research before making my post and all the models I could find used 2 tubes as well. I appreciate your help and time...


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Thetubeguy1954 (Tom)

Central Florida Audio Society -- SETriodes Group -- Space Coast Audio Society
Full-range/Wide-range Drivers --- Front & Back-Loaded Horns --- High Sensitivity Speakers


 

RE: Possibility of one tube missing?, posted on April 14, 2014 at 11:59:19
thetubeguy1954
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Location: Orlando, Fla
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I thought the same thing Fender but he assures me it was working perfectly well. So I think it must have been one of the last ones made? Once he get's "out" if you catch my drift, I'll know more. But that's 18 months away from now.

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Thetubeguy1954 (Tom)

Central Florida Audio Society -- SETriodes Group -- Space Coast Audio Society
Full-range/Wide-range Drivers --- Front & Back-Loaded Horns --- High Sensitivity Speakers


 

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