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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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notJaco said:
I had a used Traynor YBA-1 like this one as my first.
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Pretty decent amp and all that I could afford at the time. I built my own enclosure and stuck an SRO 15 in it.
Rock and roll! and standards, too.
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A drummer friend has one of those and yes they sound pretty good, they have interactive tone controls which are pretty neat too.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
Could be it’s just for show. I see him using older Fender amps. He has several covid videos, some from his home studio. I’m amazed when I hear those signature sounds.
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I thought so too as I've also seen him with Fender amps, I think I insulted a couple of members here though with my insinuations. :laugh: Sorry.
 
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Jeff Scott said:
Well, we did do a bit of aunt-eeking today. Pretty good haul this afternoon. TSO got herself a very nice reversible silk Chinese jacket, and a vintage heat register grate that will be going into the master bedroom to replace the flimsy one there now that we doubt is original to the house, anyway.

I picked up a couple of Rookwood vases, a 2479 in a greenish-tan glaze from (19)XIX, the other a Madder Wine Cattails 2592 in a blue-green glaze from (19)XLIX. And, I got books. A 1983 exhibition catalog for an Alfred Stieglitz show - Invalid Link Removed - ; a book on FLLW early designs with photos and floor plans; a basic book on bungalows by Paul Duchscherer and Douglas Keister; and a very comprehensive book on Louise Comfort Tiffany and his company's output. No furniture this time, round. But, I am thinking about the Gustav Stickley 544 bookcase from 1903 that a dealer friend has. One of these:

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After our day of spending way too much money we went out for sushi and other delights for dinner.
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That thing is nice (extent of my antiques vocabulary), how old is it?
 
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SoulReflection said:
Which ones?
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You wanted a looong post right?

Ampeg B-15T, they're 100 watt solid state B-15s. They're from the 90's I believe and bought them about 20 years ago pretty cheap as leftovers at some music store out in the sticks. I also bought two SVT heads cheap from this place. This picture is from the web, I do use them here though for most gigs. Mine doesn't have the EV, has an Eminence but they're good sounding speakers. I blew one (long story) and actually found an OE speaker for it, it's waiting in Mass. They're not even that heavy with the SS heads and the cabs are solid as a rock, I've used two cabs with an SVT head at times and they sound like a big B-15.
OK long story: I did a gig out here with the SVT and the two cabs and forgot a speaker cord, borrowed one and it turned out to be out of phase, (wired backwards), I wasn't sure what was wrong but had to really crank the head to hear myself and cooked the bottom speaker. I had it so loud it sounded like Grand Funk but because of the out of phase cab it didn't sound loud to me. I got them home and the voice coil assembly was completely fused to the magnetic material it surrounds from the heat (I guess), the cone would not move at all, highly irritating.

The prices have gone up a lot, I just found in Reverb for 950.00, I got mine for about 300-400 bucks.

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bobyoung53 said:
You wanted a looong post right?

Ampeg B-15T, they're 100 watt solid state B-15s. They're from the 90's I believe and bought them about 20 years ago pretty cheap as leftovers at some music store out in the sticks. I also bought two SVT heads cheap from this place. This picture is from the web, I do use them here though for most gigs. Mine doesn't have the EV, has an Eminence but they're good sounding speakers. I blew one (long story) and actually found an OE speaker for it, it's waiting in Mass. They're not even that heavy with the SS heads and the cabs are solid as a rock, I've used two cabs with an SVT head at times and they sound like a big B-15.
OK long story: I did a gig out here with the SVT and the two cabs and forgot a speaker cord, borrowed one and it turned out to be out of phase, (wired backwards), I wasn't sure what was wrong but had to really crank the head to hear myself and cooked the bottom speaker. I had it so loud it sounded like Grand Funk but because of the out of phase cab it didn't sound loud to me. I got them home and the voice coil assembly was completely fused to the magnetic material it surrounds from the heat (I guess), the cone would not move at all, highly irritating.

The prices have gone up a lot, I just found in Reverb for 950.00, I got mine for about 300-400 bucks.

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Thanks for the info. I am using an SCR-DI into my DAW and like the sound. I will try it with the Studio 40 to see if I can get a comparison to the B-15T off the web.
 
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notJaco said:
I had a used Traynor YBA-1 like this one as my first.
View attachment 4254740
Pretty decent amp and all that I could afford at the time. I built my own enclosure and stuck an SRO 15 in it.
Rock and roll! and standards, too.
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In the early '80s I had a YSR-1 (with bumpers). Wonderful amp for recording bass through.

Charlie Tango said:
One of those was just on Antiques Roadshow. It had been professionally refinished long ago, was pristine, and didn't appraise well. Don't remember how much, but I was surprised it was so little. They spent almost no time on it on the show.
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There could be several factors. Besides the refinish, it could depend on which era/model. Gus made a few variations of that bookcase over the years, generally, simplifying some features, such as the hardware, the back panel (the early ones had V-groove boards, the later ones had simple, flat luan panels), they became a couple inches narrower in width over time, and a big one is the door mullions. Later ones had much simplified vertical and horizontal lap-jointed mullions; the very earliest had mitered mullions (a whole lot of work to make all those joints - ever try a white oak joint? :laugh:). The one my dealer friend has has all the earliest features. And, only five with all the earliest features were made. His is one of those five. There are also models that were similar but much narrower, along with single door models, some with through tenon joints, some with keyed tenon joints.
bobyoung53 said:
That thing is nice (extent of my antiques vocabulary), how old is it?
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Around 1902-1903.
 
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Had fun this morning playing praise music with one of my nieces who plays keyboard. After lunch and a nap, I dismounted the right rear tire from the old (1947) Ford 8N tractor that I use to mow the field grass. The tread was fine but the sidewall had cracked to the point where I could lift a flap and touch the cord on the inner carcass. It's cool being able to tool around on a machine that is older than you. :) I was returning home from a supply run just a few minutes ago and flattened a kamikaze squirrel with my right front truck tire. I don't try to dodge them, it seems to increase the likelihood of killing them. Interesting squirrel fact: they can pop a paint-filled balloon and jump back so quickly that they won't get a drop of paint on them. It's true - I saw it on YouTube. :cool:
 
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