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In Reply to: RE: New old school coming home. posted by Steelhead on February 01, 2016 at 14:47:51
Below: At the cabin running Paradigm Reference 40v3's
Above: Fisher 500c with grid resistor mod and 1uf Russian K40 pio caps.
Nice!
Those 30ish glorious tube watts should spank those LaScala's good. I had a pair of LaScala's years ago while I was in the service that I bought new from the base exchange for $1,250 in 1987. One night a buddy of mine and I got this bright idea to drive them with a monster Adcom amp. After a couple of hours of Judas Priest and AC/DC one them started smoking - a lot! We pried the cabinet apart and discovered that the voice coil got so FFFFING hot that it had started the cabinet on fire! Two days later after I sobered up I returned them to the BX for another pair......Bwah ha ha ha, to be 20 again.
If that 500c starts going through 7591's like a super model in in a pile of coke, you may want to do the grid resistor mod.
The LaScala will run on 5 watts but in my experience that doesn't leave enough headroom. In my experience they need at least double that to get it up.
Welcome to the club!
Meat; It's the right thing to do. Romans 14:2
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Nice "cabin" That has to be sweet. Must be great to hit that.
Yes, I owned JBL studiomasters and LaScala's previously. I really wanted L300's but the prices on classic JBL's combined with shipping prevent that. I almost scored JBL 4350's in LA but lost out. (probably a good thing as my house is not big enough). LaScala's will be good as I have a buddy with community drivers and I am going to get some Beyma tweeters and crites crossover and then Zeppelin should sing.
The Fisher I got the individual bias option and upgraded phono. Your memory of smoking a LaScala had me laughing as I was overseas in 72 and memories of big ass Altec's, JBL's, and Pioneers with 15 in woofers and 5 or 6 drivers blowing out Deep Purple remains close to my heart. The prices were fantastic and just about everybody had sweet setup's.
I got an off-line post from Mikey. I guess I should have flown to Michigan and gotten him drunk and stole one of his 500c's as he has seven of them. I know he has lots of classic JBL's as well as Logan CLX's and I would love to hang in his cellar.
Thanks and happy listening.
I like the idea of crashing Mikey's house and getting him drunk. Thing is, I don't think he drinks.
It would be fun to hear all those toys though.
Meat; It's the right thing to do. Romans 14:2
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