I’ve got a Princeton Reverb in tweed - Love it!
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still my favorite amp, and I’ve had loads of them
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I also like my Vox AC15 Hand Wired Edition amp, but it is not as light and compact to carry for gigs as the Princeton.
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Excellent! I had an AC30 at one point - loved it but needed a different sound at the time
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My system in my 30’s.
Commodore 64, ADS L710 Series 2 speakers. Carver Sonic Holgraphy Preamp With Auto Correlator (?), Various Technics and Nakamichi tape decks, and to the right of the mixer, two turntables and a microphone. (Not shown) (I guess the microphone is shown, up on top)
A tuner of some sort on top, below that a Sony Dolby C Processor for the Nakamichi, and below that my beloved Akai AM-2800 Integrated Amp. I soldered output jacks from the preamp and input jacks to the amplifier. I ran the Carver Preamp into these inputs and just used the Akai as an Amplifier.
Over the Monitor was an Akai VCR. The two black boxes next to it I don’t remember at all. One says “Sharp” on it. No clue. I think it is another VCR. The box on top of it is very curious. No memory.
To the left of the mixer in the back is my Nakamichi 500 which I still have. In front of it is my first ever CD player, a Sony something that sucked. I don’t have it anymore.
I would say this is 1984 or maybe 1985. Way before Cables became a thang. The desk I designed and built with hands tools and $300 worth of paint. It is all MDF and that stuff sucks paint deep, requiring 20 coats. Odd. One of my friends envied that desk so I gave it to him and designed another that I had a pro cabinet shop build. I am sitting at that desk as I type.
History!
The wife and I back then:
Protective bars??!! We don’t need no stinking protective bars!
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Fabulous amps.
I’m using a Headstrong “Lil King” almost exclusively. It’s wonderful.
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Love the Carver pre. Lusted after one of those in college.
Lots of wants and a dearth of funds back then…
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also in the 80s, I had a Carver Pre and Nakamichi (pics of the Dragon are like I remember)
also had Bryston amp, Magnaplaner Tympany IVd, Koetsu Onyx, Denon table, Fidelity Research arm, Mitch Cotter phono amp (or similar name)
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Oh excellent - pretty much a '64 Princeton isn’t that?
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Handsome couple, and fine components for their day.
Impressive that you could track down the photos.
My college system was fun as well. ADS 810 speakers, GAS Son of Ampzilla, AGI 511a preamp, Teac 6300 R2R, Wollensak casssette deck, various dBx gizmos, B&O 4002 turntable. The R2R came in most handy for parties, as records were banned during parties.
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My System back in …
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Quick shot of my Office “Nearfield” System -
Evolution Acoustic Micro’s on dedicated stands, Esoteric RZ1 CD/DA/Preamp/Amp
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Sold or traded the Spectral? Always loved their stuff!
Best,
-JP
Yep - Spectral gear was great but long gone now…
Thanks!
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The new crossovers are sure to make a difference. You could optimize the arrangement of the coils by turning them to each other at a 90 degree angle so that they have less influence on each other. How does it sound tonally? The tweeter capacitor has a major influence on the timbre and spatial imaging. I also have a Mundorf supreme Silver Gold Oil in the treble range. I treated this to a Duelund JDM silver 0.01 uF as a bypass. The Duelund JDM silver helps the Mundorf SGÖ sound even smoother, softer and more detailed. A duelund JDM Cu/Sn would make the treble range more colorful and richer. The Mundorf mresist supreme resistors are very good. The Mundorf Ultra resistors reveal a little more detail and dynamics, with a slightly better, more spatial soundstage. Greetings Andreas
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An extensive crossover.
My oldest speakers have a first order X-over: 1 coil and 2 capacitors, still sound grand 
It raises a question to me though:
There must be others of us with home constructed or modified X-overs, maybe external - let’s see 'em 
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Cor that is gorgeous!
In typical “trailer-trash” style, I never owned an actual guitar amp, it was always a collection pf odd looking boxes and a trusty soldering iron to keep it going, at one point using a beautiful pair of valve HiFi EL34 monoblocks as main amps through Marshall slope-front 4x12s
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Hi John,
After a lot of reading online. The general consensus for copper foil Inductors is you can lay them flat with no issues. I actually did the whole 90° on some of the Inductors and I think that’s where the treble rolloff that I heard with these new KT170 tubes and the interaction with the existing Klipsch PCB Crossover. It was making me crazy. Also I swapped in the old original Crossover and the same Treble rolloff issues. With KT88 Tubes, everything was fine.
Very odd that separating the crossover out into its 3 elements (HPF, BPF, & LPF) fixed it all. And BiAmping the Class GaN FET Amp on the Cornwall’s Woofer and using the Tube Amp on the Mids & Tweet’s worked like a charm. No level matching needed since it’s taken care of by the Bridge Out circuit Jim Fosgate designed.
Cheers,
Joe
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Happy Cake Day!
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