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Old 08-26-15 | 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by St33lWh33ls
Let’s see, which way is the wind blowing today?

Vintage audio gear, mostly speakers, although I’m down to just some Celestion SL700s. I’ll eventually find a nice vintage Audio Research or McIntosh tube amp to go with them.

At one time I had a stock pile of camera and darkroom gear, Nikon F, F2AS and various Olympus OMs. Omega D5-XL condenser enlarger and a crap load of stainless tanks, reels, trays and a sink. All gone now and I have no desire to smell like stop bath ever again. I have a friend with loads of vintage camera gear and darkroom equipment, so if I get a hankering to go old school I will borrow his Pentax 6X7.

Lots of guitars, Fender, Gibson, Martin; nothing vintage though, just custom shop versions of vintage gear. However I do collect vintage tubes for my Fender champ head I had built; RCA, Mullard, GE, etc. I am always on the lookout for a good deal on some Bendix Red Bank tubes, damn things are near indestructible, I guess they had to be as they were used in missiles during the 50’s. Vintage speaker cabinets of all kind, including extension cabs for ancient movie projectors, B&H and RCA mostly. Vintage speakers from Jenson, RCA, ROLA and others.
I love speakers too and often wonder why they aren't marveled at more. People just seem to take it for granted, but to me it's amazing how a paper cone suspended over a magnet and coil of wire can so perfectly reproduce sound. I love the huge old Altec Lansing & JBL theater speakers. Speaking of tubes my dad had a television sales & repair shop for years and I have probably 200-300 vacuum tubes boxed up we didn't donate just thinking they'd have some greater value someday. Any idea if the tubes most commonly used in TV's would be the same numbers used in stereo amps and guitar amps? I don't remember a Bendex brand but lots of RCA and GE's. I haven't looked in that box in 22 years so my memory's not so good.
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