Guest brunoaudio Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Hi all this is my hifi story now the gear that most kids use now is a phone and a portable speaker or a cheap mini system but I don't. even the first audio product that I bought with my own money was a pair of mid range noise cancelling sony headphones for 30 dollars down from 150 dollars on a boxing day sale with my Christmas money around 4 years ago . In 2016 my papa got into vintage radios buying the odd lot or two off trade me and metting people along the way including joining the N.Z.V.R.S [that he published a acticle on how to remake dial covers.] and our local vintage radio club through one of his trademe buyings papa got a tiny we ecl82 stereo single ended radiogram chassis that papa kindly tried to change to just a amp not knowing that it had blown output transformers he talked to Murray a audio serviceman who invited us to his house to debug it he told us that it had blown output transformers a few months go past Murray gives me a ex film ecl82 se amp with a dulci preamp that was my first hifi amp. mid 2016 Murray gives me a pye nz made push pull ecl82 amp to keep and fix that I use now we see Murray every week to this day he's a very good friend of my and my papa. so what about now you ask, at the moment I am making a pair of push pull 6v6g based tl12.1 monoblocks that I will be using a pair of vintage pioneer speakers in bass reflex cabs for the meantime I use a PYE stereophonic ecl82 push pull amp fun fact it is the first commercial New Zealand made stereo amp also a TRIO KT-5300 tuner and a PANASONIC SL-PJ325 cd player made in japan with a home made passive preamp and a pair of decent PHILIPS HIFI INTERNATIONAL speakers. Pics coming soon. Thanks for reading or viewing, Bruno Willmott-Dalton 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 welcome it's great to read you have a real stereo and not some fancy schmancy cellphone. i don't know the cdp or speakers but it appears you have a pretty decent system. the pye amps are sort after by valve fans, the trio tuner should be good for FreeMusic. some of the old farts would bemoan the lack of a turntable but now is a great time for buying used cd's (try to avoid aus or nz pressed ones) as the trendies go chasing vinyl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest brunoaudio Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 (edited) It took a wile to do the photos as I don't own a phone I had to use my camera and then play around in my pirated photoshop and then upload them to here.in the pics you will also see some other gear that include a SONY 250 real to real also as a dac I use a ALESIS MULITMIX8 that I have going into my computer to my amp its main use is for dj mixing and microphones I can also plug it via usb into my computer and can record from my mixer. also in the background is a ham reciver from the 1950's its a EDDYSTONE 840A it belongs to me dad but dosent realy have a place suitable to put it. also are my 5 dollar KOSS K-6LC headphones that I use with my mixer when I'm not using my main amp. some valves just for the photos including some cv ef37a's for my amp I am making and some 6v6gs and other radio related valves, some TDK C90 and C60 blank cassets and jap db/vu meters because WHY NOT. The green metal box is a 40 watt mono solid state thing that I made with my papa when I was 9 out of a premade KEMO kit amp. Thanks for reading Bruno Edited August 12, 2018 by brunoaudio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiHan Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Bruno, that a great collection of gear you have there! I wish I had some of that stuff when I was 12, especially the Pye amp and Eddystone receiver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest brunoaudio Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 3 hours ago, MiHan said: Bruno, that a great collection of gear you have there! I wish I had some of that stuff when I was 12, especially the Pye amp and Eddystone receiver. Thank you mijoh for the kind comment Bruno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosfetMainac Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 The Pye amp looks like an HF4000?, quite a nice amp in it's day, the OPT's are supposed to be quite good from what I'm told. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest brunoaudio Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 (edited) the Pye amp schamatic is almost identical to the Mullard 7-7 but with a extra ecc83 in its phono stage. In the 60s you could buy a kit set from Philips called the STREOPHONIC a ecl82 push pull amp electricly the same to my Pye but had NZ Beacon 10 watt beacon output transformers on it and had a philips branded Radiogram turntable in the top of also a red bakalight frount with very 60s white and gold sato knobs it i know that because me and my papa had one in our lounge as our so called Movie watching amplifer we sold that about 4 mounths ago now we are using a very simular NZ made amp with the same schamatic as the philips made in Christcurch by TRU-FI it even has a sticker on the back of it that says the local hifi dealer in town from the 60s. Bruno Edited September 5, 2018 by brunoaudio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest brunoaudio Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 UPDATE: New Speakers when i have finished a electronic coump here in NZ i will be starting to make my 6v6g push pull amps based off the Leak TL12 i will be using some buitifull Speakers that are FULL RANGE 16 OHM PIONEER PAX-20A in hand made mahogany bass reflex cabs. Thanks for all the support, Bruno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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