taabru45
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I think you'd enjoy having this little beauty on your bench. 
Steffan
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/nvn/m ... 37066.html
Steffanhttp://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/nvn/m ... 37066.html
Another one for Capnjuan
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Hi Steffan; if that stuff works as advertised, it's a very attractive price and yes, I'd love some quality bench time with it. The Echolettes are compulsively over-built like all Siemens / Telefunken / Saba post-war electronics but I am marking the seller down for bad puff :evil:
The Echolettes in good/very good condition are offered in the $900-$1,200 range alone .... this one has a rare matching amp and common case ... don't think I've ever seen a set much less a set in a factory case. The Echolette's schematic is crazy complex ... chances are the amp's is a puzzle too.
I wonder if the seller is more a collector/dealer than player; instead of writing his own blurb, he snips something from Harmony Central which reads like much of the other mush over there: " ... The sound in clean is like the Fender Twin and in distortion like the Vox AC30 ..." Hmm ... I see ... clean but dirty ... spend and save ... guns and butter .... Although it runs on EL84s, it mimics a Twin's 6L6s ........... Really?
The quoted text also says: "40 watts sinus power" which is UK-speak for 'peak' or RMS power ... intended to indicate the amp's absolute upper bound in power handling in response to voltage spikes and transients ... not it's nominal power which is more likely in the 20-30 watt range. For example, the Guild Thunderbass power transformers support 50 watts nominal and they're too big to go in that M40's cabinet.
Really cool high-grade stuff and, assuming it works at advertised, at a clearance-sale price!
The Echolettes in good/very good condition are offered in the $900-$1,200 range alone .... this one has a rare matching amp and common case ... don't think I've ever seen a set much less a set in a factory case. The Echolette's schematic is crazy complex ... chances are the amp's is a puzzle too.
I wonder if the seller is more a collector/dealer than player; instead of writing his own blurb, he snips something from Harmony Central which reads like much of the other mush over there: " ... The sound in clean is like the Fender Twin and in distortion like the Vox AC30 ..." Hmm ... I see ... clean but dirty ... spend and save ... guns and butter .... Although it runs on EL84s, it mimics a Twin's 6L6s ........... Really?
The quoted text also says: "40 watts sinus power" which is UK-speak for 'peak' or RMS power ... intended to indicate the amp's absolute upper bound in power handling in response to voltage spikes and transients ... not it's nominal power which is more likely in the 20-30 watt range. For example, the Guild Thunderbass power transformers support 50 watts nominal and they're too big to go in that M40's cabinet.
Really cool high-grade stuff and, assuming it works at advertised, at a clearance-sale price!