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IceClass

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  1. Anyone have any opinions on this vintage receiver as both a headphone amp and a speaker amp?

    I seriously love mine. :cool:

    Enough to covet one of these beauties too.

    Definitely a good idea to go through and re-cap everything before something blows up. I'm thinking about just disconnecting/removing any circuits I won't need like the tuner and tone controls so I won't need to deal with as many tubes.

    Yeah, any Fisher of that vintage really should be looked at before any serious use as I found out.

    I'd been procrastinating about getting it looked at as I'd been having too much fun listening to it. Some caps blew in mine and had to be replaced.:eek::palm:

    She's back from the tech now and working but I recently got one of those cap boards from Triode and having my local tech build it up and install it.

    It does seem a shame to disable the tone controls and tuner just to save on tubes.

    I don't really use the tuner section on mine as I live in a remote area with little in the way of FM radio stations. The couple of stations I do get show it to be a very capable tuner.

    I do use the tone controls however and they are a very welcome feature.

    I should add that my experience is mainly as a headphone amp.

    I haven't really got any speakers on hand to do it justice but I would really welcome some knowledgeable recommendations that go low and fill a small to medium sized room.

    Everything I read in the Stereophile article turned out to be more or less true.

    I've been liking mine a lot.:rolleyes:

  2. I always finish every gun cleaning by running an very lightly oiled patch over the whole thing, barrel included.

    I could understand that it "may" be a bad idea to fire a gun that's still dripping in packing grease as that can be pretty thick stuff but I've never yet seen a civilian gun thus shipped.

  3. I bought season one on DVD and thoroughly enjoyed it.

    I'm now patiently waiting for season 2 to be released.

    I can't be bothered to watch shows on TV during the season. I'd much rather watch a whole season in a few sittings on DVD than have to tune in at the correct time each week.

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