I just had a little adventure getting my second SVT. I owned a Blueline back in the day, downsized, then I found I needed a big amp again. So when this one came up after I sold a bunch of camera gear I wasn't using I was all over it! It was going to be a road trip/vacation with my gf to pick it up but her mom freaked about us driving in the winter so I ended up going solo. Turns out it was being sold by Scott Brown of Trooper and Danger Danger. Here he is rocking it with Trooper:
His dad snapped this pic of us when I picked it up at his dad's garage:
I picked up another 810E in my gf's Focus in the summer so I knew this one would fit, but it had a wooden strip fitted to the bottom to angle it back a bit for Scott to hear it better. It's been skinned and could use a coat of paint but the drivers are all good. It's a late 1997 SLM. It barely fit:
I also got a road case with wheels for the head but that had to come apart to fit in the car:
Waiting for the ferry:
On the water on the way home:
Set it up the next day and of course it sounded awesome!:
It's a 1978 Magnavox:
Several years of dust:
Opened up on the operating table:
Transformer markings:
Looks like all original British and USA Magnavox driver and preamp tubes:
And the guts. The power cord needed immediate attention:
Tube layout chart. Just one lonely 12AX7 in the lot:
Serial number label:
Repaired power cord and you can see the cap discharge jumper cable:
Export fuse sticker:
Some cap pics. These look original?? No humming.
Chassis top after the dust was wiped off:
What are these light bulb thingys?
There was one round hole Svetlana in the set:
They're all about 8 year old low mileage Russian Svetlana 6550C's:
This SVT is so much lighter than my rack rig!
So the plan is to run it with my V-4BH and two or three 810E's:
So there you have it. Documented Ampeg madness.
