How is everyone doing? (7 Viewers)

[trainbufftony]

Lots of electronics industry in Maynard Mass in the fifties and sixties.
One of my favorite HiFi manufacturers HH Scott company was headquartered in Maynard Mass.

 

[xtiaan2000]

I have an old Scott stereo that my dad had put together. Doesn’t work now though. Anyone interested in it?

 

[trainbufftony]

I have an old Scott stereo that my dad had put together. Doesn’t work now though. Anyone interested in it?

Very, does it have vacuum tubes?

 

[xtiaan2000]

Yes

 

[xtiaan2000]

I don’t know anyone that can fix it though! No one seems to carry the v tubes.

 

[trainbufftony]

Ive fixed several HH Scott's up over the years. 299d, 208, 2x model 99s, and a few LK72s. I'm not scared of em it's all routine service work for me.

I don’t know anyone that can fix it though! No one seems to carry the v tubes.

I've got a few thousand vacuum tubes in my "stock" the audio related ones are getting scarce but I don't mind paying for new ones when needed.
Here are a few of my toys

This is a set of 4 Acrosound TO-300 mono amplifiers which I built from scratch. They make about 25 watts of beautiful sound with under half a percent thd from about 8 cycles to 80k...

That's my HH Scott model 208 power amplifier which I built a wooden stand for.

The front side of the HH Scott 208.

The power supply to one of my custom preamp builds. (They use an HH Scott phonostage)

The guts of one of my hand wired custom preamps, hh scott phonostage us the tubes on the left followed by a Shunt regulated push pull line output on the right two tubes.

 

[FJBen]

Ive fixed several HH Scott's up over the years. 299d, 208, 2x model 99s, and a few LK72s. I'm not scared of em it's all routine service work for me.



I've got a few thousand vacuum tubes in my "stock" the audio related ones are getting scarce but I don't mind paying for new ones when needed.
Here are a few of my toysView attachment 3692932
This is a set of 4 Acrosound TO-300 mono amplifiers which I built from scratch. They make about 25 watts of beautiful sound with under half a percent thd from about 8 cycles to 80k...
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That's my HH Scott model 208 power amplifier which I built a wooden stand for.
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The front side of the HH Scott 208.
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The power supply to one of my custom preamp builds. (They use an HH Scott phonostage)
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The guts of one of my hand wired custom preamps, hh scott phonostage us the tubes on the left followed by a Shunt regulated push pull line output on the right two tubes.

You have any amps you want to build sell?

 

[trainbufftony]

You have any amps you want to build sell?

The reason I photographed the 208 was to sell it. Nobody bit.
Check your PMs

 

[Pigeaten]

Most people have never a great system, when I finally did, I heard things in songs, I’d never heard before

 

[Pigeaten]

Heard a great system

 

[bobm]

Most people have never a great system, when I finally did, I heard things in songs, I’d never heard before

Me Too! Thought it was da Weed or sumptin else

 

[bobm]

Watching movie dat begins wit da! Usually dont watch anything were Da comes 1st! Movie is Da Town . Grew up in all dis .

 

[Pigeaten]

Me Too! Thought it was da Weed or sumptin else

Probably the weed,you probably had a pair of big headphones on also

 

[trainbufftony]

Man I got invited into one heck of a hoard of audio equipment today. A full recording studio worth of gear, racks and racks of equipment, 2 consoles, a wall of guitar amps...
Unbelievable...
No pictures if the hoarding of others.
You'll have to trust me, it was insane!

 

[Pigeaten]

Stereo geeking out!

 

[greenbeast]

Man I got invited into one heck of a hoard of audio equipment today. A full recording studio worth of gear, racks and racks of equipment, 2 consoles, a wall of guitar amps...
Unbelievable...
No pictures if the hoarding of others.
You'll have to trust me, it was insane!

Friend of mine in Colorado is a professional guitarist for the last 40+ years with his own home studio. I’d be curious what he has compared to what you found. I wonder if guitars are like amps, he has well over 100 all with different sounds, qualities of their own. Quite amazing to hear Brent ask my wife if she remembered “Don’t take the girl” by Tim McGraw while showing guitar he played.

 

[trainbufftony]

Friend of mine in Colorado is a professional guitarist for the last 40+ years with his own home studio. I’d be curious what he has compared to what you found. I wonder if guitars are like amps, he has well over 100 all with different sounds, qualities of their own. Quite amazing to hear Brent ask my wife if she remembered “Don’t take the girl” by Tim McGraw while showing guitar he pla

What I found today was old, probably didn't work, and the whole place smelled like piss. It was an amazing collection but only a small fraction would be interesting to me personally. Most of it was what I call " Squalid state" meaning it doesn't use vacuum tubes, and isn't that interesting to me personally.

 

[xtiaan2000]

This look like something you could bring back to life?

 

[Pigeaten]

If he can’t, I know a guy

 

[trainbufftony]

Definitely so!
That looks to be an earlier 299, either a 299 or a 299b, later on they switched to plastic knobs and bigger 7591 power tubes.
The 7591 is a great tube, but they are expensive these days and they don't make enough more power vs the 6bq5 to justify the $50 per tube price...
I think yours takes 6bq5s but I'd have to look closer at it to know for sure.
Fwiw they used 7189, which is the industrial number for the 6bq5.
At the time it worked to funnel ignorant consumers into the factory service network.
That network no longer exists and people to this day spend wzy too much time and effort seeking out 7189s thinking that they make more power, are higher rated, or that their amp "requires" the industrial version.
Really the only difference is the number printed on the box.