I'm impressed with the quality of the restore. The amount of blood,
sweat and tears shows in the workmanship of this restore.

This time it's not a waste of time.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=39 783

Thank you to the person that is hosting the auction. It shows people
still care about tube amps.

Dwaine.

Ummmmm, that's not a restore, that's a repro. He designs and sells them.
Read the text ;-)

--
Gregg
*It's probably useful, even if it can't be SPICE'd*

I don't know about the price.
I was never impressed with small Solen coupling caps. I can't make
out the input stage coupling caps. The Russian 7199's aren't great,
either, as compared to NOS.
For the price, I'd expect Hovlands or equivilant for signal caps, a
Mullard 5ar4, and NOS RCA 7199's. HEXFREDs or similar for the bias
rectifiers wouldn't be out of the question, either.



Sorry, I can't see it.

Bob Hedberg

Dwaine Garden wrote:

I'm impressed with the quality of the restore. The amount of blood,
sweat and tears shows in the workmanship of this restore.

This time it's not a waste of time.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=39 783

Thank you to the person that is hosting the auction. It shows people
still care about tube amps.

Dwaine.

Bob H.

Just grab that plate in one hand, the chassis in the other,
and FEEL the power of tube audio!!!
(not literally, of course, just kidding. DON'T DO THAT!)

"Dwaine Garden" wrote in message
le.rogers.com...
I'm impressed with the quality of the restore. The amount of blood,
sweat and tears shows in the workmanship of this restore.

This time it's not a waste of time.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=39 783

Thank you to the person that is hosting the auction. It shows people
still care about tube amps.

Dwaine.


An ST70 for 900 bux? I'd have to sturt huffin' gas to even consider that!
And jeesh, for that kind of dough, ya think you could blow a few $$ on a
silkscreen? And do i havce to wipe off all the blood, sweat & tears to
boot? Jeesh....

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An ST70 for 900 bux? I'd have to sturt huffin' gas to even consider that!
And jeesh, for that kind of dough, ya think you could blow a few $$ on a
silkscreen? And do i havce to wipe off all the blood, sweat & tears to
boot? Jeesh....

In 1978 when the ST70 was sold as a kit in Denmark, the price was $185, so i
think you're quite right. :-)

/ Hans

I think that the ST-70 is the most over-rated tube amp ever built. It is
all hype. I owned a ST-70 that I bought from the original owner. It was in
truly mint shape. I thought it was OK until I bought an ARC D-76. The
ST-70 was a boy trying to do a man's job by comparison. The D-76 blew it
away in every category that you could conceive of. I just don't get it.
"Hans" wrote in message
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An ST70 for 900 bux? I'd have to sturt huffin' gas to even consider
that!
And jeesh, for that kind of dough, ya think you could blow a few $$ on a
silkscreen? And do i havce to wipe off all the blood, sweat & tears to
boot? Jeesh....

In 1978 when the ST70 was sold as a kit in Denmark, the price was $185, so
i
think you're quite right. :-)

/ Hans

(Ted Peterson) wrote in
om:

"Mark Pearson" wrote in message
...
I think that the ST-70 is the most over-rated tube amp ever built. It
is all hype. I owned a ST-70 that I bought from the original owner.
It was in truly mint shape. I thought it was OK until I bought an ARC
D-76. The ST-70 was a boy trying to do a man's job by comparison. The
D-76 blew it away in every category that you could conceive of. I just
don't get it. "Hans" wrote in message
k...
"Shiva" skrev i en meddelelse
news

An ST70 for 900 bux? I'd have to sturt huffin' gas to even
consider
that!
And jeesh, for that kind of dough, ya think you could blow a few $$
on a silkscreen? And do i havce to wipe off all the blood, sweat &
tears to boot? Jeesh....

In 1978 when the ST70 was sold as a kit in Denmark, the price was
$185, so
i
think you're quite right. :-)

/ Hans





If it was mint, then the amplifier no doubt had very leaky coupling
caps, horked bias section, weak output tubes, etc. Hardly a fair
comparison as it probably wasn't running even close to spec. No, the
ST-70 isn't a Macintosh - but when setup right, they sound very nice,
easily superior to a lot of the mid-fi solid state stuff out there
today.


There is a reason the Dynaco amps were referred as a "poor man's McIntosh" in
my neck of the woods. It was the next best thing. Speaking of bias, the
last time I fired up by fathers 1955 MKII, the bias was solid and steady even
though it had the original bias circuit with the original selenium rectifier.
MMMV though!

r


--
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic."

Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Technology and the Future"

I'm impressed with the quality of the restore. The amount of blood,
sweat and tears shows in the workmanship of this restore.

This time it's not a waste of time.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=39 783

Thank you to the person that is hosting the auction. It shows people
still care about tube amps.

Dwaine.


He wants $795 when you can watch ebay for a couple weeks and find a mint
original early one for $450 ??

and the ones for $450 mint have a good chance of having some Mullard made
tubes inside.

Is this *your* auction?

that might be a deal at $395, if he would lose the Sovtek tubes and at least
use NOS RCA.


azcowboy