Derek92994's 700 Ser II White Oak conversion

[derek92994]

Its sounding sweet, been powered up for just over 24 hours this time. I am baby sitting a cat for 12 days, so am keeping the volume down. She is hiding because she doesn't know this place. Peering out the sliding glass door watching anyone who walks past. I'm going to let her be until she is ready to come out and interact.

 

[derek92994]

Amp sounding great after more than 2 days power up, still keeping it down for the feline, she seems to like music though.

 

[laatsch55]

Good man....don't freak the kitty out...

 

[derek92994]

Chilled out kitty. I better get some rest myself, 3:35am.

 

[laatsch55]

Nite bud.

 

[derek92994]

Nite bud.

Night night.

 

[Northwinds]

Cute kitty!!!! Looks like some Maine Coon in her genes. Looks like she might be ready for a TT ride soon LMAO!!!!

 

[Cafe944]

Shots with my new camera, 20.1 megapixels!! Its a sony =)) Out does my old camera real easy. Images are like 10 megabytes each. I must give the amp face a light clean and polish today.

Awesome Looking PL 700, I could just imagine how great this amp must sound.

 

[laatsch55]

It sounds DAMN GOOD Jose. It was a rather unique project. The carcass was donated to D2 from Bobbysdad in Australia. Shipping was going to be prohibitive so I asked D2 if he could solder the tranny back in if I had rebuilt it with all the White Oak goodies and put a 700B faceplate and meters on it. It arrived with no main plate( it was a Ser II), and no tranny. It was completely redone and tested with an outboard power supply and sent back. Derek then installed the tranny and it's now up and running. It also has the worlds first White Oak Chassis, the prototype that was not anodized black. It was the test bed for the beta chassis, which by the way was flawless in every way. There is now a small production run of black anodized 700 chassis being implemented....

 

[Cafe944]

It sounds DAMN GOOD Jose. It was a rather unique project. The carcass was donated to D2 from Bobbysdad in Australia. Shipping was going to be prohibitive so I asked D2 if he could solder the tranny back in if I had rebuilt it with all the White Oak goodies and put a 700B faceplate and meters on it. It arrived with no main plate( it was a Ser II), and no tranny. It was completely redone and tested with an outboard power supply and sent back. Derek then installed the tranny and it's now up and running. It also has the worlds first White Oak Chassis, the prototype that was not anodized black. It was the test bed for the beta chassis, which by the way was flawless in every way. There is now a small production run of black anodized 700 chassis being implemented....

Incredible job, Lee. That Amp Looks Sweet

 

[laatsch55]

Thanks Jose, the really incredible part was Derek taking on the tranny install with barely knowing how to solder. There were some anxious moments but shipping an amp to Australia and back without the tranny saved about 350.00 in shipping, no small amount by anybody's standards. Plus, it had never been done before, that was reason enough right there...

 

[derek92994]

Cute kitty!!!! Looks like some Maine Coon in her genes. Looks like she might be ready for a TT ride soon LMAO!!!!

She is very cool this feline, she is comfortable with me but if anyone else comes here she goes to her hiding place behind the couch. Took me nearly 2 days encouraging her to come out and stay out in the main lounge area. Now she has her favorite seat on the couch. I have spare turntables upstairs =).

 

[derek92994]

The amp is amazing, and this is day 3 of power on. Might turn her up a little today, see how kitty handles it. We had moderate standard listening volumes last night and she was loving the tunes.

 

[derek92994]

Amp is sounding very clear and lively today, but I have only just started playing vinyl through it and my cartridge is known to be rather bright so not sure if its the amp or cart or bit of both. Kitty is chillin' out to Joe Cocker.

 

[derek92994]

THE VEIL HAS LIFTED.......

 

[laatsch55]

AHA!!!

 

[derek92994]

Couldn't resist turning it up for this Clapton Cale Tribute album. I'd swear I was listening to JJ Cale himself, Clapton does it so well!!!

 

[laatsch55]

Did it happen while you were listening to it? Happened to me with the Pig one night in the middle of a song...

 

[derek92994]

Did it happen while you were listening to it? Happened to me with the Pig one night in the middle of a song...

I been playing it so low for the kitty. Only turned it up a little today, its clearer and fuller in the bass. Its been on for nearly 4 days straight.

 

[laatsch55]

Yep, that's what happens. It really didn't get a lot of playtime here...