[Vintage-Audio] Vintage Gear, Curbside Value?

Sat Feb 19 20:53:05 EST 2005

With that lovely storage area Jerry, all you need to do is enjoy!	

Know what I found this morning? Sit down - 	

The original seven inch reel to reel mono audio tape from 1967 recorded by Elvis
Presley for the now famous Christmas Album! This is the copy sent to the radio
stations with all the intro's , seg's and so forth for the DJ's to use! I wonder
what this thing is worth?	

	The cover from the original album is worth $150+, I have no idea what the vinyl
album is worth.	

You would have been a DJ about the time this tape hit the radio stations Jerry,
ever see it?	

DBF	

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From: Gerry Steffens <gsteffens at pitel.net>
To: 'Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back'
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: RE: [Vintage-Audio] Vintage Gear, Curbside Value?
Date: Saturday, February 19, 2005 8:28 PM

I give up to superior discussion.  No fast come backs currently available.

Gerry

Collecting & Restoring since 1959
Gerald Steffens P.E.
Oronoco, MN

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[mailto:vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Duane B.
Fischer, W8DBF
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 7:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Vintage Gear, Curbside Value?

The truth being, in Minnesota he has them in cold storage! 

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From: Gerry Steffens <gsteffens at pitel.net>
To: 'Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back'
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: RE: [Vintage-Audio] Vintage Gear, Curbside Value?
Date: Saturday, February 19, 2005 8:16 PM

I can house about 10 cars in two garages.  

As for the radios and related, most are here in the basement of a house
constructed in 1991 so it is dry and climate controlled  (if I need it I
have 1200 to 1600 square feet for radios).  However the quality steel
shelving folks have added a couple of rooms to their mansions by their
profits off me.

Cheers from Minnesota,

Gerry

Collecting & Restoring since 1959
Gerald Steffens P.E.
Oronoco, MN

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From: vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Duane B.
Fischer, W8DBF
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 3:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Vintage Gear, Curbside Value?

Jerry, 	

Where in the world do you keep all of this? On second thought, send me that
answer in private, no sense in advertising -	

I will have to respond to this later OM, right now I have to get a damp
paper
towel and wipe the drool off my keyboard!	

DBF	

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From: Gerry Steffens <gsteffens at pitel.net>
To: 'Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back'
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: RE: [Vintage-Audio] Vintage Gear, Curbside Value?
Date: Saturday, February 19, 2005 10:36 AM

Your interests in audio are somewhat parallel to mine in quality AM radios.
I got started from the interest and an accidental learning in 1968 (I
stumbled into my first Scott radio).  I still have it and use it daily.  It
is an E. H. Scott Full Range High Fidelity Superheterodyne Receiver, a large
radio the weighs about three hundred fifty pounds including its lacquered
console.  The good or sad thing is that I have another thirty plus Scotts to
go with about 50 Hallicrafters, 50 Zenith Transoceanics and many more.

It is an all chromed, multi-chassis covering broadcast through twenty five
megacycles with twenty three tubes, 1 rf stage, 4 if stages, three audio
stages beginning with a 6C6 driving a push-pull 6C6 pair, driving four 2A3
tubes in parallel push-pull.  It has 2 Jensen Q4 tweeters and a 12 inch
Magnavox main driver, all electrodynamic receiving 50 watts class A which
isn't too bad for a 1936 radio.

The radio has continuous variable selectivity accomplished by a mechanical
network of shafts and gears to adjust a small variable capacitor in each IF
stage.  It has rf gain, called sensitivity, a BFO called a station locator
and an S-meter shown as the meter pointer projected onto the dial (the dial
is also projected by dial lights as shadows an a small screen type dial.
All of this is contained in a fancy console making it a civilized living
room piece of quality furniture.  Further these consoles make the Philcos
and Zeniths seem like junk.

I also have one of the two known Scott Quaranta Custom radios - 50 tubes, 5
speakers (eighteen inch Jensen L-18 bass, two twelve inch Magnavox midrange
and two Jensen Q series horn tweeters), record cutter or lathe, record
changer microphone for recording or PA applications.  Once again all chromed
chassis from 1937 which weighs in at 620 pounds with consoles - I don't have
the consoles but the other guy has them with his.

Good luck in your efforts but I still think you would get max dollars from
the bay place.

Cheers from Minnesota,

Gerry

Collecting & Restoring E.H. Scott,
McMurdo Silver, Hallicrafters, Zenith 
Transoceanic and any other interesting
radios since the 1960s
Gerald Steffens P.E.
Oronoco, MN

Collection stands at about 278 radios, 3 and one half Oldsmobiles, a 1950
GMC half ton, 1999 Eldorado, 4 Suzukis and then the everyday drivers

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