Recent content by Patrick_W

Absolutely stunning work! Congratulations. May I ask what font did you use for your Fisher chassis graphics? It looks spot on.

Congratulations! That 272 really looks nice. And with the cleaned controls and new tubes I bet it sounds really amazing. I know those white ceracaps have a rep for sounding fine and testing fine for much longer that should be expected. Most people here on the Tube forum would advise you to...

The EH 6CA7 are my favorite and have proven for me be the best sounding EL-34 new tubes out there. I like those a lot. I also can give a thumbs up to the new production Tung Sol EL-34B tube. I was fortunate to pick up a pair of quads of each the EH and Tung Sol tubes before the prices went...

Interesting! I asked basically the opposite question here a year or so ago. I have an MX113 and MC2105 combo. I was asking about maybe getting a 4100 because of the ability to run 3 sets of speakers vs. the 2105 which has one set of speaker outputs. Folks chimed in here and said that I would...

Nice pickup! It looks to be in pristine shape.

Head over to the Speakers forum. It is a great place to learn about small veneer repairs. Or the ambitious task of re-veneering a cabinet. I have done a few minor repairs on speaker cabinet veneer by reading through threads like the one below. I know it is hard to find now with the search...

Or they have a very pretty cage!

The Fisher SA300 is an EL34 power amp has two 5AR4 rectifier tubes, so Fisher got it right. However, Fishers's own EL34 integrated amp the X-1000 did not have any rectifiers, as it seems Fisher ditched tube rectification at some point with their integrated amps. I believe the Scott integrated...

Beautiful amp! What a nice score, and one that looks to be in fantastic shape. An EL-34 integrated will really make your Altecs sing. My NYC tech find is Pat Kauffman who works out of Main Drag. He may be able to help you.

Many thanks! I was caught up reading about impedances in the Mac forum. Since my MC30s have an imput impedance of 500k ohms I wanted to make sure that they would work. Sorry for the thread hijack. Carry on.

Not to question your knowledge on Fisher items Larry, as you probably have forgotten more about Fisher products just today than I will ever know in my lifetime, but did you possibly mean 30,0000 or 30k Ω for the output? I too am thinking about pairing a Fisher tube pre (President of the CX2...

Congratulations! They look beautiful together.

That helps a lot! Thank you. Very coo to see McIntosh is back to manufacturing the gold lettering. I will place my own order for one.

Were any of your new glass purchases for a MC2105? I bought glass about 3 years ago, and with the lights off there is no gold lettering. I had wanted to switch out the bubbling glass on a 2105, but have been decided to keep it as is until the bubbling gets to be too much. This certainly would...

Glenn, Once again, absolutely stellar job on this table. I am always impressed by your patience and skill to get things exactly perfect. I am sure the turntable sounds so amazing that most folks hearing the table don't even realize what a great job you did with the veneer! The color of the...