writethis
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Sherwood 7100: the little receiver that could
I should probably buy up three more of these before posting, but here goes.
Got this little guy a couple of years ago here on Barter Town. Think I paid maybe $50. Since then, all I've done to help it along is replace dial lamps and hit the wood case with Howard's Feed n Wax.
I've used the humble early-70s Sherwood 7100 (not the later 7100A) as a substitute tuner in my main system while my fully restored and aligned H/K Citation 15 was out. The Sherwood gave me 95% of what the Citation 15 does.
This week, I subbed the Sherwood into my kitchen system in place of a minty, beautifully restored Sansui 2000X. Been listening to the fab sounding classical NPR station all morning while doing a kitchen deep-clean. This thing sounds ridiculously good.
For me, it's all about gear assembled into a system that fosters emotional connection with music. This little receiver and the Aegis Evo One speakers it's driving have transported me for the past two hours. The emotional effect is surprisingly close to that achieved via my "serious" system. No, this little kitchen system doesn't do the bottom octave, and it doesn't go super loud. But boy oh boy does it sound "right." And this in a bright, untreated room where the very notion of optimal speaker placement is a joke.
I've never heard another example of this model. I assume they all sound this way, or at least have the potential to. If so, the Sherwood 7100 ought to be on the master list of low-price vintage sleeper gear, without a doubt.
I should probably buy up three more of these before posting, but here goes.
Got this little guy a couple of years ago here on Barter Town. Think I paid maybe $50. Since then, all I've done to help it along is replace dial lamps and hit the wood case with Howard's Feed n Wax.
I've used the humble early-70s Sherwood 7100 (not the later 7100A) as a substitute tuner in my main system while my fully restored and aligned H/K Citation 15 was out. The Sherwood gave me 95% of what the Citation 15 does.
This week, I subbed the Sherwood into my kitchen system in place of a minty, beautifully restored Sansui 2000X. Been listening to the fab sounding classical NPR station all morning while doing a kitchen deep-clean. This thing sounds ridiculously good.
For me, it's all about gear assembled into a system that fosters emotional connection with music. This little receiver and the Aegis Evo One speakers it's driving have transported me for the past two hours. The emotional effect is surprisingly close to that achieved via my "serious" system. No, this little kitchen system doesn't do the bottom octave, and it doesn't go super loud. But boy oh boy does it sound "right." And this in a bright, untreated room where the very notion of optimal speaker placement is a joke.
I've never heard another example of this model. I assume they all sound this way, or at least have the potential to. If so, the Sherwood 7100 ought to be on the master list of low-price vintage sleeper gear, without a doubt.
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the only knock is the combined volume control and power switch. Solve that and a major reliability issue goes away. I know, use a power strip, but would prefer a good solution that fixes the problem. Somewhere, there's a stash of those combined controls.
