[Vintage-Audio] JVC speakers

[Robert J. McKee]

> [Original Message]
> From: Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer@usol.com>

Duane, your mentioning JVC brings to mind a need of mine
that had slipped my mind.  Probably a series of senior moments
prompted by events at hand.  She is a five-month-old chihuahua
pup I named Linda Lou.  You may laugh at her because when
I am playing reel to reels I lay a second pair of headphones on
the floor at my feet and she will lay down and stretch out so
she can listen also!

The reason I am using headphones is that I have not completed
building a pair of speaker system to use here on Long Island. I
am short one driver dating from back in the eighties.  It is a JVC
ribbon tweeter.  O'kay, I have a pair but one is a little bit short
on cosmetics having been shipped loose in a box that let it slide
and bang around.  The model number is 1101 or 1011 or
something like that.  They are good out to over 30 K Hz and
I'll have the chihuahua confirm that when I get them playing.

Will be driving them with a pair of Dynaco Mark III amps
I am now in the process of modifying to replace the power
cords with EIC recepticles so that any modern power cord
can be used.  The old quad caps have been tossed in favor
of the Curcio upgrade to both higher capacity and voltage
rating for improved reliability and more solid low end punch.

O'kay, o'kay; I also admit replacing the original input/driver
boards with a more modern phase inverter driver circuit
which uses one each of 12AU7 and 12AX7.  I think the
circuit came from Kevin Kennedy a few years back.

I had the project nearly done when some silver plated
teflon wire came into my hands.  Then came the search for
a thermal wire stripper I could afford.  Now winter is coming
and there is nothing better that a 30 watt soldering iron to
help keep the house warm until the KT 88's can once again
glow.

Bob McKee