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unusual car stereos
I was roaming around the store of an ebay seller that I had purchased a keitai (japanese cellphone) from, and found that he sells all kinds of stereo and car equipment. in particular, I found this panasonic unit to be extremely intriguing, it has a vacuum tube, analog equalizer dials, and a cool magnesium look like some of my vintage japanese stereos at home.
http://cgi.ebay.com/PANASONIC-CQ-TX5...item35b1beeb99
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Re: unusual car stereos
i had a guitar preamp with two vacuum tubes behind a little window so you could see them .... but they had a yellow LED behind them to make them glow.
all for show. amplifying DC voltage with a vacuum tube is too complex to likely be done in that head unit.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/PANASONIC-CQ-VX5...item3cb6f47b90 this one's more like the technics stereo I have, but it's still beyond my budget for now.
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Re: unusual car stereos
It's kinda neat. Not something I would put in my SVX though.
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Re: unusual car stereos
I would not want a vacuum tube in a car. Too unstable. Not very cheap to replace either. If you went over a speedbump it would be quite possible a warm tube would crack or break completely. You can tell when they are cracked because they will glow blue.
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Re: unusual car stereos
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tubes aren't that fragile. one 12AX7 preamp tube for left and right channels into a solid state power amp isn't gonna do squat for the sound. most good tube audio amps have many gain stages of tubes.
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