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Hi all,
Last Monday, my son had a follow-up appointment with his surgeon, who had completed a successful eye surgery on Matt's eye a month earlier. Following the medical appointment, I had planned to meet the seller of a Pioneer CT-F850. The deck had appeared on the local craigslist and I called the seller to set a date for demoing the deck. The deck had new belts, had been lubricated, and had the desirable wood enclosure. In some cases, the wood case, alone, can fetch up to half of the seller's asking price of $80.
The seller, Stan, is a retired telecommunications employee. His hobby has been restoring old audio gear. His basement was quite the set-up. In one corner of the large room was his work bench. His current project is repairing an amplifier for a vintage Seeburg jukebox. He was about to load-test it with a 100 watt bulb, then follow-up with his Variac. In the larger portion of the partitioned basement was his audio gear. A pair of Altec VOTTs occupied the back wall, smaller Magnepans, and a few other older classic speakers. He had an Ampzilla on one shelf awaiting a few parts. He had the matching preamplifier, too. I spotted a beautiful Pioneer SX-1080 he had serviced and on the top shelf a Pioneer CT-F1250 cassette deck, also completely gone through. I spied the original packing carton for the cassette deck in a corner of the room.
I have been having a little fun this past week playing a lot of pre-recorded cassettes and other tapes I have collected through the years, which were not recorded by me, but I found at the thrift stores. Just last night, I plugged in a Sony UX 90 with Rolling Stones’ “Let It Bleed” on Side A and Led Zeppelin’s “Houses Of The Holy” on Side B. A dynamite recording, I must say.
Because I bought it for a fair price, I might bring it into Innovative Audio to have it internally biased for some of the brands of tape I usually record on.
Nando.
Last Monday, my son had a follow-up appointment with his surgeon, who had completed a successful eye surgery on Matt's eye a month earlier. Following the medical appointment, I had planned to meet the seller of a Pioneer CT-F850. The deck had appeared on the local craigslist and I called the seller to set a date for demoing the deck. The deck had new belts, had been lubricated, and had the desirable wood enclosure. In some cases, the wood case, alone, can fetch up to half of the seller's asking price of $80.
The seller, Stan, is a retired telecommunications employee. His hobby has been restoring old audio gear. His basement was quite the set-up. In one corner of the large room was his work bench. His current project is repairing an amplifier for a vintage Seeburg jukebox. He was about to load-test it with a 100 watt bulb, then follow-up with his Variac. In the larger portion of the partitioned basement was his audio gear. A pair of Altec VOTTs occupied the back wall, smaller Magnepans, and a few other older classic speakers. He had an Ampzilla on one shelf awaiting a few parts. He had the matching preamplifier, too. I spotted a beautiful Pioneer SX-1080 he had serviced and on the top shelf a Pioneer CT-F1250 cassette deck, also completely gone through. I spied the original packing carton for the cassette deck in a corner of the room.
I have been having a little fun this past week playing a lot of pre-recorded cassettes and other tapes I have collected through the years, which were not recorded by me, but I found at the thrift stores. Just last night, I plugged in a Sony UX 90 with Rolling Stones’ “Let It Bleed” on Side A and Led Zeppelin’s “Houses Of The Holy” on Side B. A dynamite recording, I must say.
Because I bought it for a fair price, I might bring it into Innovative Audio to have it internally biased for some of the brands of tape I usually record on.
Nando.
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, your son is in my thoughts and prayers, please give that smokin' hot Irish wife of yours a peck on the cheek from the stuster 
btw, how is that Lou Gramm tape, I'm a huge fan and haven't heard that yet.
