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In Reply to: RE: All good points posted by Tre' on August 14, 2021 at 18:25:44
I think I felt a collective chill from all the Citation II fans while reading your post.
That might make an interesting thread, asking "What did you wreck [or devalue] in an attempt to improve things?". I'm betting there's some early Marantz or other tube gear out there with holes where they don't belong or a chassis painted red.
I was going to tear into my Audio Research SP3-A-1 preamp around thirty years ago, and the advice I got was "Leave it alone". Given what they're going for now on ebay, it was good advice.
Follow Ups:
There are a number of things I'd like to change in my Citation V. Much of it would be hidden, like the use of larger PS caps and maybe the addition of a screen choke. However, rewiring a socket for a different tube type hurts resale value, even when socket size stays the same. The mod I want most - a front panel power switch - would really kill its market value, no matter how professionally it's done. Wish I had bought a dozen of these back when they were $100 each. That's the only way I could justify making one of them "my own."
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Buy Chinese. Bury freedom.
I had a running Cit.ii and a pair of W6m carcasses...I kept the Heathkits and sold the restored Cit.ii. Too much money got waved under my nose.
Cheers,
Douglas
Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
Ain't that the truth? Pre internet, I got to see a lot of great old hi-fi equipment. But being a Rust Belt dweller at the time, I had little disposable cash to buy any of it.
That was when I bought my modest Dynaco collection, and even that has increased in value.
There's more to life than money. :-)
Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
That's true, and I probably should have left the monitary value out of my comment.
My other interest, in addition to hi-fi, has always been motorcycles. Finding an old, 1940s original paint and parts Harley or Indian is rare. Everybody was customizing them in the 1960s/1970s, not thinking a thing about it. But now, finding one in its original state is a thing of beauty.
I'd be happy to find a modified Marantz 8B, some extra holes drilled in its chassis, but I'd be a lot happier to find one that hasn't been touched, simply for its aesthetic value.
In the summer of 1974 my good friend Ron Finuf one year out of high school, while working for David "Huggy Bear" Hansen at "The Shop" bought an old police bike. I think it was a pan head. He ripped it apart and chopped it finishing it just in time to ride it to Idaho to watch Evil do his thing.
Huggy Bear and a bunch of other guys from The Shop were going but changed their minds at the last minute and headed off in a different direction. Ron rode all the way there and back solo.
Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
We have a legendary Harley drag racer named Pete Hill from the area I now live. Pete was in his seventies when he jumped on a rigid frame (no rear shocks) Harley Knucklehead (which preceded Panheads) and rode it to Sturgis SD and back to SC, about 3300 miles, round trip.
That was back in the days when men were men, and sheep were nervous, as the old saying goes.
I've ridden bikes all over Texas, Colorado, Pennsylvania and upstate New York, but I don't have any stories like that to tell. Except maybe the time I rode from Colorado Springs to Dallas on New Year's Day when it was 12 degrees and a foot of new snow on the ground. It was so bad, I didn't ride for nearly ten years after that experience. :(
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Buy Chinese. Bury freedom.
Punch that 12 ºF into a wind chill calculator on line, add your average speed, and it's no wonder you weren't anxious to get back in the saddle, not to mention the potential for ice on the road. Hypothermia is a very real thing on a bike.
My most grueling ride was when a few of us left for New Hampshire about six years ago. We did 1003 miles in 17 hours that first day. We'd have pushed further, but one guy's eyes were so beat up by pollen that he was having trouble seeing, so we stopped for the night and finished the run the next morning.
Wow...and I thought riding 100 miles in 7 hours was pretty sweet. It was in the summer...lots of fun in -7F with studded snow tires, riding trails and rivers. Best epic ride ever.
cheers,
Douglas
Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
can't say that I did not occasionally get jealous of the motorized folks...LOL
Douglas
Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
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Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
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