Goals for next year

[speakerman1]

Get the vacuum pump fixed so we can have a stash of very nice type II tapes.

Learn how to take pics. LOL
Finish Things I start.
I know or I have come to realize I will never make money at audio. So just do it for fun.

Buy some BASF and TDK bulk. Yes I can get it. Just not cheap.
Work on building the one and only tubed cassette deck. I think with some help from a friend I can get it done.

Try to be more level headed at times.

Introduce more people to equipment they have never tried.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Larry

 

[Fast Forward]

Set Realistic Goals for Yourself Larry,,don,t get frustrated when things don,t go exactly as planned,,never accept failure

 

[speakerman1]

Thank you Fast. Failure has never been in my vocab. My exwife. Use to say no matter what happens to me. I just drop my head and keep on going. God knows she tried very hard to destroy me. LOL

I think the tubed cassette deck may get done. I really think this year it may be a reality. I do know someone who designs tube circuits and components. So it may just happen.

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

What transport ?? What tape pre-amp section? Bias? EQ? Dolby?

 

[speakerman1]

Yamaha K-1000. No dolby. The other is not for me to do. LOL We shall see. I have a few parts decks setting here. The only thing that needs to be tubed is the outputs. Playback only makes it pretty simple.

Larry

 

[mlucitt]

You know, many of the tape deck and FM tuner manufacturers subbed out the front ends of their equipment to other builders. I heard a rumor that the early McIntosh tuner front ends were made by a small cottage industry shop in New Jersey and they never got any credit for a nice circuit.

You could do the same and remove an entire output section from a tube preamplifier. Make sure the impedances of the cassette front end and the input to the preamp driver section match sorta close and you are done.

 

[Web Police]

Those sound like admirable goals Larry. Go for it.

 

[ksrigg]

In the coming year I want to learn how to rework the venerable Phase Linear 400 amp using àll the upgrades made possible by the people on this forum. I will need to a lot from the members here to pull it off. I also need to sell off a bunch of the audio gear I don't use. Or at least the amps I have multiple pieces of..

 

[laatsch55]

Spoken like a true hoarder!!!

 

[orange]

You know, many of the tape deck and FM tuner manufacturers subbed out the front ends of their equipment to other builders. I heard a rumor that the early McIntosh tuner front ends were made by a small cottage industry shop in New Jersey and they never got any credit for a nice circuit.

You could do the same and remove an entire output section from a tube preamplifier. Make sure the impedances of the cassette front end and the input to the preamp driver section match sorta close and you are done.

When Pioneer had hard times they had Yamaha help. Some of the 1981 line had to have been subcontracted...and TX-950 is Yamaha-built...

White PCB with green markings is what I was told to look for. CT-7R is almost all Hitachi semis (ICs that is) and needs daughterboards where my Sanyo could add features to match and probably skip them, already had AMSS but no C NR or LED display drivers.