diamondsouled
Recycle belly button lint!
I ended up with a pair of McIntosh MC30s, consecutively serial numbered and very clean (and I do mean PERFECT trannies - just perfect) - even the inner metal was pristine, no heat colorations, except......
....for a smidge of a squirt of electrolytic gel that apparently was shot onto the inner metal from being powered on after a long period of dormancy. Then the amps were apparently recapped with modern mylar and/or poly caps by a more knowledgeable sort - operational, and just the perfect "source units" to have rebuilt THE RIGHT WAY, without having ANY guilt about redoing them. The "redo" had already been started, so I could proceed with ZERO hesitancy about altering them. And the amps were more modestly priced, as the collectors had been chased away.
They were given a proper rebuild with the full intent of being heard. Amps like this should be if reasonable or possible. Now if they had been presented to me in original box like these Citation kits, that decision would have been MUCH more difficult if not impossible, because it is very much proper to keep something THAT perfect in the original state. I wouldn't even want to breathe on these.
Yes they probably belong in the Smithsonian, seriously, that or my basement, ;^).
Cheers
Lar