Snappers!!!

Petro85

Petro85

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Well I wanted these amps for as long as I can remember. I just could not afford the brand new price tag. And these don't often come up for sale used. I found a dealer in Montana (todd the vinyl junkie)selling off his demo pair. They are an older model but they are upgraded to the newest model. He said he's a manley dealer and has to keep his floor model up to spec. And they were the right price.and come with 2 sets of el34's so I grabbed em up!!
I'm very excited!!! I'm overnighting a check Monday . Hopefully be listening to them in a week or so.
Anyone have any experience with them????
 
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Wow...very cool ..congrats !!!

Love dem tubes...what is the tube compliment on the unit ?

Ooops//Never mind..EL34 which means you could go 6L6GC if you desired (to me , nicer sound) since they take slightly less voltage
 
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  • Input Vacuum Tube: 1 x 12AX7 Russian with 6CA7 output tubes; use 12AT7EH large plate Electro-Harmonix Russian with EL34 types
  • Driver Vacuum Tube: 1 x 7044 or 5687 GE JAN NOS
  • Output Vacuum Tubes: 4 x 6CA7 (or EL34 equivalent)
 
Thanks I can't wait !!! I tried to go solid state. It's probably the smarter route for me but I've always been a tube guy. Tubes and vinyl what could be better!!
 
Yes as soon as I have them setup ill take some pics, shouldn't be too long.
Problem is I built a new stand( from my DIY thread). I built it wide enough to put the 2 granite amps I was going to buy on the bottom shelf. Side by side . The snappers won't fit. Now I have to go find some amp stands.
Or just keep the first stand I built . Which I really don't like all that much. But it's big.
Or maybe ill put the new stand in and put the new amps on some plywood for now.

Thanks everyone I really appreciate it.
Dewey your avatars just keep getting better and better

Next up speakers !!!
 
wooohooo!!!!!happy day in my house. snappers finally arrived, todd the vinyl junkie hooked me up with all those extra goodies you see in the pic. 16 extra el34's and the 2 each of the other tubes, fuses, multimeter. im sending off a letter to thank him. i set everything up listened to a couple albums. so far not warmed up and new to the system they sound great!! the other day i switched my granite silver cable to my tonearm and put the aq sky in between pre and amp and it was instantly better. so i left it that way. the addition of the snappers made my soundstage soooo much wider deeper and better, the instrument separation is all there now. and the bass is deeper and more comprehensive. im going to let em warm up then bias the tubes, then ill do some serious listening and put a review up.
:exciting::exciting::exciting::exciting: im a little happy right now!!!!
as soon as i got the delivered email from fed ex i packed up at work and left and raced home. lol.
 

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