Posted: June 19th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Deals, projects | Tags: craisglist free, project, steamer trunk | 3 Comments »
The free trunk after a little work.
Ever since I scored some great vintage camera gear the other week, I’ve been keeping my eye on the Craigsist free section in Marin for any potential finds, and today I came up lucky. It was advertised just as ‘Old Steamer Trunk’. No picture, no further description. Just a phone number, which I called within 8 minutes of the ad being posted. I was already the 2nd person to call, but they weren’t able to pick up the trunk right away. Just my luck – so off to San Rafael (just 5 miles up the road).
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Posted: June 8th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: projects | Tags: bowers and wilkins, bw 600, project, speaker recap, speaker recapping | No Comments »
The offending capacitors on the B&W 600 speaker.
I bought some great (I thought) speakers at a thrift shop on Valencia in San Francisco the other day. Amidst all the usual crap Sanyo and Matsui plastic junk, I spotted some all black speakers on the bottom shelf with the B&W badge. Knowing that they make a quality speakers, I overlooked the holes in the speaker grill and the bruised corners and took them the checkout to pay my $25 finders fee.
They felt nice and heavy, and when I plugged them into my Beomaster 1900 amp, they sounded pretty good. Until I moved the balance control over to the left speaker. All mids and lows, but no highs. I removed the grill and confirmed my suspicion – the tweeter wasn’t working. I opened up the speaker and, woah, just a loose wire. The red wire wasn’t connected at all, so I connected it and waited for victory. But it didn’t come, still nothing out of the tweeter.
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