GordonW
04-25-2005, 09:24 PM
I've been helping out a friend of mine, Matt, assemble various stereo/HT stuff for his new house. He's been working madly on the house itself (I think, realistically, that about the ONLY things that haven't been re-worked on the house are the bricks in the wall... no, wait, he HAS been re-laying some of the bricks in the decorative wall in the patio, so, ummm...), and has just now gotten through enough to start installing the sound systems. I had gotten him some speakers for his HT system (Boston Acoustics A70 8" 2-ways and an A40 6.5" 2-way for a center), and such...
Went over yesterday, to help him configure his HT system... before I came over, he told me on the phone "yeah, one of my wife's cousins just gave me some stereo gear... I want you to tell me if we can use any of it"...
Got there, glanced at it, and nearly fell over.
:blink: :eek: :shock:
A Sansui AU717 integrated amp, and ST717 tuner. Yeah, the big black ones with the RACK HANDLES.
But wait... there's more. The speakers? OMG. :jawdrop:
JBL L65 Jubals. Missing the glass tops, and need some minor wood-work on some of the trim, but in PERFECT working condition, with GOOD foam.
Let me repeat- he was given this stuff FOR FREE. By someone who probably was saying to themselves: "hey, we don't need this old dusty stereo... let's see if Matt wants it for his new house".
Needless to say, there's gonna be a quite serious "music listening" system in the sitting room/dining room/living room area in the front of the house. He's really handy with hardware, so I told him, just take the "pad" from the top of one of the speakers (that sits under the glass), to use as a template to have some more glass tops made out of lightly-smoked glass... once he does that, and touches up the woodwork itself, these things are gonna be SWEET!
:applaud: :thmbsup:
Regards,
Gordon.
Went over yesterday, to help him configure his HT system... before I came over, he told me on the phone "yeah, one of my wife's cousins just gave me some stereo gear... I want you to tell me if we can use any of it"...
Got there, glanced at it, and nearly fell over.
:blink: :eek: :shock:
A Sansui AU717 integrated amp, and ST717 tuner. Yeah, the big black ones with the RACK HANDLES.
But wait... there's more. The speakers? OMG. :jawdrop:
JBL L65 Jubals. Missing the glass tops, and need some minor wood-work on some of the trim, but in PERFECT working condition, with GOOD foam.
Let me repeat- he was given this stuff FOR FREE. By someone who probably was saying to themselves: "hey, we don't need this old dusty stereo... let's see if Matt wants it for his new house".
Needless to say, there's gonna be a quite serious "music listening" system in the sitting room/dining room/living room area in the front of the house. He's really handy with hardware, so I told him, just take the "pad" from the top of one of the speakers (that sits under the glass), to use as a template to have some more glass tops made out of lightly-smoked glass... once he does that, and touches up the woodwork itself, these things are gonna be SWEET!
:applaud: :thmbsup:
Regards,
Gordon.