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In Reply to: RE: Post favorite vintage EL84 amps and why posted by Audio Mind on February 18, 2015 at 14:32:13
Never met (heard) an el84 amp I didn't like. I bought a Scott 399 receiver because I fell for the looks and it used 7189's...Home Run!
Also have a SEP/el84 Glow Audio One I use from time to time. Also very sweet.
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Did you actually just buy this?
Great looking. I'm not familiar with Scott receivers. But do try to have it restored either way.
enjoy
charles
Thanks. Yes, bought it, still own it and it has been restored.
Boy oh boy, that thing is a stunner!
If sounds half as good as looks, then your in sonic heaven.
Meat; It's the right thing to do. Romans 14:2
Thanks. Sounds like Heaven to me. Looks good lit up at night to.
What is the smaller box to the left of the receiver?
It's a Scott 335 multiplex decoder.
The 399 was introduced around 1960 at the dawning of FM "Stereo". It has a mono tuner in it with a mpx out jack so you could add an outboard decoder when the time came.
I just have the 399 now and have found that FM mono can be pretty nice to listen to.
Me too, much less distracting to not have the shhhshshshhshshsh...on the
the weaker stations.
Wow...that Scott is a beautiful design and seems in nice shape too. Humans and from what I am told monkey's as well seem to be drawn in to shiny gold things I guess..LOL..
I was surprised to see the glow amp was point to point hand wired for the $499 price. Leaving the power thing out of the equation how does the glow amp sound next to the vintage stuff?
Thanks. I'd get a "NO MONKEYS OR HUMANS WITHIN 10 FEET' sign but they'd just ignore it. :-)
The Vintage stuff sound a "little" more romantic (in a good way). With a full tube receiver you get the tube preamp and tube tuner included in the package.
The Glow has it's own volume control and I usually run a tuner or CD player into it (both SS). You have me thinking about trying it with my own tube preamp. Hmmmmm.
A velvet movie theater rope would not look out of place in front of that..!
Yes,I understand about the vintage "romantic sound" versus the modern stuff.
Now I need to get back to admiring your Scott receiver...
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