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stuwee said:
I love a challenge!! And hope you're right!

I'll warn you as well, the Summit's will SMITE ya! Any extra speaker cables you have laying around that fit the WOPL will be welcome tho!

I can have Bud Light, sprig of lime? Have a tree out back buddy!
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That sounds mighty tasty, I have a special set of speaker cables made from the virgin copper of an old nuclear power plant, I'll bring them when I get an amp or two built. Sounds like an adventure.
 
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laatsch55 said:
Yeah, nuts ain't it.....
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Yep! Hell, there is or was a Pioneer SX-1250 on shopgoodwill.com that was at $705 last time I looked. That's for an untested unit.

I had one that I had restored by EW (Glenn) of AK about 6 or 7 years ago that I had to sell. I only got $1,200 out of it a couple of years ago.. I had to sell it for medical bills at the time.. dang!

I haven't been on here too much, been super busy working on some stuff for a friend. Got the Sansui G-7000 done and now I'm restoring a AU-717 for him. I've got a PL-3600 to do. By the way, I bought a service manual for it on the bay. If someone wants to scan it I'll be happy to send it to them to get the info out. It's pretty disappointing. All that is in it is a schematic, board layout and parts list. Not much help on it.

Got several more pieces to fix to sell so I can help finance my PL-700 for WOPLing.

Also looking for test equipment, cheap! :toothy5:
 
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TheWOPLwhiffer said:
Gonna get even harder soon. I don't have many left. Especially if I do 4 consecutive serial numbers WOPL'S for my collection. There are still junkers to be had for upgrading but they want $700 and up for them. Damn, and I offed a bunch last year. Wish I had them back now.

Nadude, get one (not necessarily one of mine) while you can, it's just going to get worse. I already raised my prices this week after figuring out there ain't no deals to be had and the prices will continue to climb just like some of the Mac stuff. PL amps that were built at the factory suffered from quality issues and some bad engineering practices (bad soldering, wire routing, RMA flux remaining on the circuit boards, crappy single sided boards, shitty wire, etc), but we now have the stuff to make one of these amps into a world class item. Are they Phase Linears still after we get done WOPL'ing them? Maybe, maybe not. Not that I really care what the purists may say. Go pick you one up and WOPL the dogshit out of it and you'll never need another amp the rest of your life. Even if you have to blow $2000-$2500, that's pretty cheap in my book. I blew $45 grand on a pickup that won't last half as long as a WOPL and won't be worth a plug nickel in a decade or so. My prediction? A WOPL in 2 years will be worth 3-5k. Have you ever seen one for sale beside the guys that build them? Not me. The boys love them some WOPL snatch and for good reason. It was one of the world's best kept secrets but I heard some chick on a far away website talking about them and look what happened.

All the above is merely the rambling of a crazy retired sailor. Maybe we can get Lee to hit the delete button....
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No deletions! Well said.. I will get one, but I'm going to have to figure out how to rob Peter to pay Paul as the saying goes! The pittance I get from my retirement barely pays the bills..1,200 a month after taxes and insurance doesn't go far. I've got a 29 year old car and a 22 year old one.. maybe I could sell one to pay for my WOPL 700. Hmm... 94 Lexus GS300, will trade for PL-700II :happy3:

I keep wondering if or when the bottom will fall out of the market.. How long will vinyl sales keep climbing? I now have shelf space at the headshop I work part-time at selling some vintage stereo stuff and albums... The owner wants me to look into the possibility of opening a independent record store.. Terre Haute, where I live, doesn't have one and the closest is about 45 miles away in Bloomington. They're not a whole lot bigger of a town and they have 3. Of course IU is there and we just have ISU....lol.

My buddy that I'm doing the Sansui's for calls my WOPL a Faux Linear. Call it what you want..
 
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Sorta like KFC: We do Carver right.
 
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Jim: What did you find that eventually led to the repair of your friend's Sansui G-7000 receiver?

Nando.
 
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Elite-ist said:
Jim: What did you find that eventually led to the repair of your friend's Sansui G-7000 receiver?

Nando.
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Actually I thought it was done when I took it over to his place but when he hooked it all up the power meters were showing the right side low. When I brought it back here I went through it again and found a open fuse resistor on the eq board but that only affected the phono. It was on the negative rail. Replaced and went ahead and shotgunned the board since I had the transistors here. Got it all done and it tested out fine here and then when I took it over and he hooked it up and it had the same issue. Well, I decided to do some troubleshooting there and found out it was his eq that he was hooking up. Got it now trying to sort it out... I'm stumped so far. Got most of it done and have balance on both channels but on some bands the sliders have no affect. I had cleaned it..? Everything tests ok as far as I can test with a DMM. There is some drift in some of the components. Anyway, he is loving the G-7000 and now I'm doing a AU717 for him. When it's done I'm going to take back the 7000 and replace all fuse resistors!
 
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nadude98 said:
Yep! Hell, there is or was a Pioneer SX-1250 on shopgoodwill.com that was at $705 last time I looked. That's for an untested unit.

I had one that I had restored by EW (Glenn) of AK about 6 or 7 years ago that I had to sell. I only got $1,200 out of it a couple of years ago.. I had to sell it for medical bills at the time.. dang!

I haven't been on here too much, been super busy working on some stuff for a friend. Got the Sansui G-7000 done and now I'm restoring a AU-717 for him. I've got a PL-3600 to do. By the way, I bought a service manual for it on the bay. If someone wants to scan it I'll be happy to send it to them to get the info out. It's pretty disappointing. All that is in it is a schematic, board layout and parts list. Not much help on it.

Got several more pieces to fix to sell so I can help finance my PL-700 for WOPLing.

Also looking for test equipment, cheap! :toothy5:
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Try rick@stereomanuals.com, my 3600 manual isn't like that...
 
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