Might have been nice to acknowledge the passing of Brett Mullins, the owner of HiFi Heaven and the store that you bought. He was a good guy and this video feels like gleefully picking through the belongings of a dead man. Yeah, it's a delicate balance, but maybe just a tip of the hat at some point would have been nice.
When you're buying estate stuff it would be weird to mention whoever owned it unless you personally knew them. I can't pin down the exact reason atm but it feels wrong to bring up whoever's stuff it was when you have no connection to them.
@@Sirmooses This is different than buying from a nameless estate. HiFi Heaven was a well-known audio store/repair shop in the same general area that was around for decades. I'm sure the folks at Just Audio were familiar with Brett and his business. Seems kind of cold just to ignore him.
Nice find- I worked with Brett Mullins over 40 years ago at Atlantis Sound in Falls Church. Brett was the company service manager and at the time Atlantis had around 30 stores on the east Coast from Boston to Richmond. Brett was a technical genius. Also a great guy. Wish you would have talked a little about what Brett meant to Audio Community in the DC area. Passed way to soon.
Very cool purchase and a great looking shop that clearly had tons of love put into it. That said, I checked the listings and the prices listed are pure comedy. $4k for a Pioneer SX-1050 😂 even in the current inflated market that is delusional.
An overhauled SX-1980, a far bigger, heavier, more complex unit, might sell for $2G's (it costs about a grand in parts and labor to make them reliable), but 4 grand for an SX-1080 is insane. And good luck shipping these things safely and securely. Even double boxed, the potential for major shipping damage is high.
@@photo_n_art , The proprietor is obviously too young to be familiar with much of the equipment that he just got his hands on. He could do some research and familiarize himself, but but that might cause him to have to re-evaluate what the stuff is actually worth on the used equipment market, or how much he willl have to put into it in order to make it reliable so he can sell it honestly and with full disclosure, and any knowledge that cuts into the bottom line of his profits is likely to be avoided or ignored.
No kidding! I've bought, sold & traded vintage equipment for years. His prices are insane & laughable at best, but there's a sucker born every minute as they say. Just sad he takes advantage of folks not in the know. That's just highway robbery & he know's it! No shame.
I knew Brett Mullins, who owned this shop, HiFi Heaven in Falls Church, as a customer and he worked on a number of pieces for me over the years. Brett was a true original and very gifted with electronics. He was also a great storyteller and I knew when I was going to be stopping by HiFi Heaven chances were high that it would be an hour plus trip, but worth it always. I'm glad this stuff is staying local, and that all those unfinished projects are going to get seen through to the end. But I thought your video shortchanged the talented tech who assembled this collection in the first place by just skipping over him, and not even acknowledging his death....I don't know man, it all feels kind of off, all focus on just the business of it and not so much on the human part of this place.
Sam, while I didn't know him enough to talk about him. Only meeting him once or twice. I appreciate your story of him and I hope people read it and see the great person that he was!
Brett was a legend in the DC area hifi business. He is gone too soon. Hope his family got a good bit of cash for this estate. As others have said, would have been nice to note Brett’s history. I am sure when you guys move on from Just Audio, you would appreciate the shout out for providing excellent service to the vintage hifi community
So no mention of WHY this was shop was even up for sale? Brett's passing was a loss to our community and as a fellow repair shop owner you truly missed an opportunity to pay him some respect. Would have taken 30 seconds.
That Fanfare FTA-100 is a fairly rare tuner. It's one of the few AMAX certified component tuners with C-QUAM AM-stereo. While the AM sections of most tuners made over the past 40-50 years begin to roll off audio between 2-4kHz, that Fanfare is among the few with a wideband AM section that will extend up out to 10kHz (which is the maximum AM stations can broadcast analog audio in the US). Being AMAX certified, it also features advanced noise blanking, and follows the NRSC-1 audio de-emphasis curve that many stations use today. Awesome find.
Wow, you bought HiFi Heaven! I went there a few times with my son, who is super into vintage audio stuff. Brett was always really great. Too bad about his passing. Rest In Peace. Looks like the shop was quite a bit thinned down since last time I saw it, but glad there were a few gems still in there. It was quite an incredible place.
Would be cool to configure a complete system out of all that gear, of matching brand and vintage, and list that as a unit, and or do a review of it. (p.s. as mentioned by others below, owner was Brett Mullins of HiFiHeavenRepairs, Falls Church Va, passed age 63, some info on webs)
Oh my, yes, that was an untimely passing. Can't help but wonder how the worry of managing an audio/hifi business weighed upon Mr Mullins, with so many disappearing day after day. He was taken too soon.
What does having so many B&Os in a repair shop tell you? I did electronic repair for over 40 years and the reason for so many is when you tell them the cost they say No Way Keep It.
@@LennyFlorentine , BNO cartridges will go bad just sitting there. Not only does the rubber suspension dry up and lose elasticity elasticity but there are crimped connections to the coils inside and sometimes they oxidize and you lose continuity. Anyway, like the other commenter here I've worked on far too many pieces of B&O gear over the years, and the stuff is just outright crap.
It's fine if you pass by the boring speakers, 'cause they're not your jam, but if you find some interesting speakers you should definitely pause to cover them. Decks, turntables, and especially amplifiers are really cool, but they're useless without speakers. So don't discount them too quickly. Having said that, they don't appear to be that shop's bread and butter either, so their selection is a bit on the dull side.
The Revox !! I'm in love wish I had the cash to buy that one very special indeed CD or Reel to reel Amazing the absolute best European gear bar none. Turntable very rare
You know more than anything I am just happy you all at Just Audio are doing so well. Your continued success is much deserved. I have a Grundig Satellite 800 which has all digital meters except one. Grundig's are shortwave and international radios. Late at night when you get the best atmospheric conditions you can listen far away as the UK and California, Canada, Mexico and more. Things like HUGE solar flares, listening location, RF interference and other techno-geek stuff can affect radio reception range. I'll soon be bringing in 2 Pioneer cassette decks, CTW910R and CTW850R plus a Pioneer RT707 for a record head replacement. Looking at a Pioneer SX 1980 too.
@@LennyFlorentine Get a pair of built or kit Speakerlab Ks for that Pioneer. They were killer on a 4 digit serial number( the key) Marantz 2270. They should be as good. Don’t play the first band of the sound track from Earthquake at full volume ( as my sister did by accident) if you want to keep your sliding glass doors or windows uncracked!!!
The Tandberg TCD-3004 (The Original) was up to Nak Dragon standards. ...and I'm a Nakamichi fanboy. I used to work at a Stereo store, in the 80's and the boss took me to see a new Tandberg line. Tor Siverstein, of Tandberg, showed us the line, had a TCD-3004 taken apart, etc. It was a tank with very cutting edge technology. Unfortunately, they still used Tandberg grease, which tended to seize over the years.
The Tandberg was arguably the best sounding and performing deck of its time. I remember when it came out, it was shown at Henry Radio in Anaheim, CA, and we were all just blown away that a cassette could sound so good. Mated to it's matching receiver, it really showed what the future was like. I don't think the Nakamichi was available just yet. I was in junior high school, and my mom would drop me off, so I could buy parts, and then listen to unaffordable audio! It was also when the Thelma Houston "I've got the music in me" Sheffield Direct to Disc came out, so it was a great lesson. The speakers were Ohm Acoustics, early generation, and it was also the first time I heard the DBX Noise Reduction system for turntables to get the clicks and pops out. So, when we heard the Tandberg, up against other components, it was remarkable. I think they also made some recordings, and then A/B the Thelma Houston on vinyl, vs the Tandberg recording.
Awesome. Audiophiles don't realize that it's not about spending $35.000. on a pair of speakers that make us tick, It is finding that vintage piece that brings back memories of the first time we played something on it. It's that Amp that you could fry an egg on, but with a fan on it, you could listen to Van Halen till 2:00 AM
So nice to see that all those classic pieces are in good hands now again. The new technology simply can't duplicate the rich beautiful sounds of the old setups.
THE fisher with the bird music note in its beak is avery fishers company back when he was in NYC. His company was sold off to Sanyo and thats when they just went by fisher or studio standard. Sanyo dropped the line as was told to me by sanyo it was making them bankrupt. Anything fisher is excellent quality ESPECIALLY THE fisher.
NHT you said you were not familiar with it is a very good speaker from the 90s and then they sold out and the newer stuff isn't as good the NHT stands for Now Hear This the 1.5 and 2.5 and 2.9 and 3.3 are all great speakers the 2.9 and 3.3 are legendary
Having managed Hi-Fi stores in the '70s and '80s this brings back a lot of memories of selling that stuff when it was new. Living near Chicago I would go to the CES show every year and met amazing people like Saul Marantz and Henry Kloss. I still have a few gems from that era like an Infinity FET pre-amp, a Marantz 250 power amp in the original wood fretwork case, and a Nakamichi 600 wedge-shaped cassette deck. Good times!
looks like you have a lot of amps to fix you will have to assume they are all broken until you inspect and test each one. I just hope the guy that sold them to you didn't sell them because he could not fix them. i hope you can fix some and get your investment back good luck.
Channel: “We bought an entire hi-fi store!” Me: Ooh! Cool turntables and speakers! Channel: “Well, here’s some turntables; here’s one that’s TRASH, and we’re skipping the speakers cuz they’re just not fun…” 17:58 Bonus: “I don’t know who Charlie Bird is but it looks cool…” Me: “Ok bruh, peace out…”
I totally enjoyed this tour and to buy a store with all of this vintage equipment is awesome WOW 👀 ( MIND BLOWING) it's like vintage ( HEAVEN) great job going through this equipment ❤️
On the way home drop the load off at GoodWill and take the deduction. See if there’s any 45 spindles you can save. Charlie Byrd. Any jazz aficionado would know
#2,, did you get the building For something of value . NO , too bad looks like every piece need $500 ++ of work all leaking caps dryed out drivers it's Close to a Mid Fi Gragage sale
What a collection, and boy are you up for some work resurrecting that lot, just a pity its on the wrong side of the planet for me. (Boy is US couriers etc. $$$$$$$)
The Bang & Olufson in the movie was a Beosystem 4500, the one you have is a Beocenter 7000 or a 7007 its much older fra the 1980. The remote is for a System 5000 the remote is two way system, the remote was showing what the 5000 system was doing. At 19:49 there is a Beogram 6000/8000, if it is a Beogram 8000/8002 it is one of the best player in the world. The thing about B&O is that it doesn't have to look like the chief designer's lunch box to be good, they made things so they were also nice to look at. regards from Denmark.
You were a bit casual about the Nakamichi T-100 analyser (rare and limited production, have one) and the big Quad ESL Electrostatic speakers ;-) Nice equipment there, still drooling!
@@Z4NL i use a T100 on my bench at work (audio repair shop). Excellent low distortion signal generator, distortion meter and power-output meter. I don't use it for tape deck measurements but one of the other techs does..
@@goodun2974 To align tape and cassette deck heads you will need the Nakamichi reference tapes. The signal generator and pink noise generator are very useful. Very desirable due to the nice and responsive gas discharge display.
@@Z4NL , yes, I'm aware ---- I work with a guy who has been servicing Nak decks for 30 years, and he has the reference tapes. Myself, I use the T-100 for measuring amplifier output power and distortion.
I liked the AR5's. These were sleepers. Did not go down as low as AR3a's. Sounded really good but did not sell well as they were not that much cheaper than the 3's. Problem with all the vintage AR's and JBL's: those problematic L-pads. Henry Kloss was smart there - he either did a simple three-way toggle that phased in resistors or nothing. I really prefer nothing - less to go wrong.
Having fiberglass insulation stapled to the inside of the cabinets meant that fiberglass ended up in the L-pads, and of course the wire-wound resistor elements and wiper contacts oxidized over the years anyway. You could probably take them apart and polish the contacts, but it might be easier to just replace them.
Cool Hifi vintage stereo Equipment!! I bought one Brand New Klipsch R820FB 400 watt speaker for my Denon AVR-1907 I need to save up more $$$ to buy more ya i know i bought only one speaker hey it was on sale at London drugs still is but im sure not for long. Hey it sounds Bad ASS. I like them a lot they have lots of power! hey Just audio do u sell Klipsch Speaker's??
👍🏻😎 I'll bet a lot of it was gear dropped off and the owners were never to be seen again, that happens more than you'd think in the repair business and you can definitely get a lot of gear for free that way. RIP to the former owner and condolences to his family.
OMG! AR-5's, Kyocera, (I remember my Sansui 9090DB), Tanberg was excellent, Luxman was Alpine car audio, (Luxman also made tube receivers/amps), Carver is a million watts for $50 bucks, (real crap), but at least he came out with Accuphase. Love this channel!
But he's skipping the speakers. A lot of vintage speakers still sound awesome but you can buy them for cheap. I'll stop watching the video now that I know that no speakers will be shown. ;)
Naaah man… typical car salesman attitude… if you know anything about vintage HiFi you know that B&O was overpriced pile of hot garbage just like Bose. I have seen most of the stuff when it was still sold in retail stores. The urban legends about some of the vintage gear that is spread now by millennials makes me wanna cry. A lot (if not most) of the vintage hifi was hot garbage in a shiny box, you really had to know what was half decent not to waste your money… if you have listened to heavily compressed streaming audio thru Bluetooth speakers for your whole life than yeah this will sound 1000 times better but a lot of the stuff was just cleverly marketed mediocre at best components
I liked that HH Scott stereo amp in room one. I have the identical amp that was a kit that I built in 1965 and over the years had to repair it a few times, but it's a great stereo amp. I might be interested in the one you have, even if it isn't working. I still have the schematic and the construction manual and spare parts for mine.
Lots of interesting stuff but that job lot has the potential of having a massive number of hours to get them all going! Good luck with it all! Also, how don’t you know about the Yamaha CT7000 from the first room? One of the most iconic and highly regarded tuners ever made!😛
No doubt! I have anxiety over the 30 pieces of vintage stuff in my family room! Haha! I think it's awesome...as long as you have the time and knowledge! Knowing myself, I would become a freaky hoarder and I'd be found buried under this load of metal. Good luck, John!
I still like my CR820 like the ones you show here. I find the sound good enough for me and aesthetically they are the best balanced looks of the Yamahas with a good combination of switches and tuning needle windows. The larger Yamahas have smaller windows and look out of proportion to me. The satin brush aluminum face and dials looks classier to me than either black or the more silvery look of other brands and I think the lighting is classier.
I repaired a CR820 recently ---- it had about 30 small capacitors that were either leaking electrically (causing very noisy switches and controls) or actually leaking electrolyte and corroding the leads of the parts. The output was intermittent and it went into protection periodically because one of the driver IC's was bad and causing DC offset (we have a few in stock and were able to replace the bad one, but they're no longer available). The CR820 sounds pretty good but they suck to work on, and the tuner's not as good as some of their other models. I found it extremely annoying that the only parts on the circuit board that actually had silk screen numbers for the components with the transistors. None of the capacitors or resistors had silkscreened numbers on the board, which made it very difficult to troubleshoot. They cheaped out like this on some of their other units and and I find it extremely aggravating.
That is good to know. I hopefully got lucky with mine and will not have the same issues. I plan on opening it up again this year to spray the volume control as it is getting scratchy. Hopefully it is not something worse. Aside from that the only other issue with my system is a loud hum that comes intermittently from the phono when switched. Not sure yet as to cause. I do not work with electronics so have little experience with what is quality electrical components. I am only commenting on the units from a physical appearance and sound. I am sure there are better quality units available either for more money and maybe even the same money.
if i was there i would feel drunk with how many stuff i wanted for my colection not knowing what to choose first, like that carver cd player that goes with my amp and pre-amp from the same series ,phase linear was also one of my favorite brands bought by pioneer and they release a fantastic deck from P.L. as ct-X1 or A1 or similar but mainly in plastic, the QUAD guys i know would be crazy with those components there allthough most of them have that series ,early 80´s if memory doesn´t fail me
That National is a Preamplifier from the National Radio Company of Malden Massachusetts, a well know manufacturer of Amateur (Ham) Radio equipment, in business from 1914 to 1991. The preamp is part of their Criterion Line of Broadcast AM/FM receivers from 1956. They are not related to National Panasonic.
Hope you got this for a steal. You might be one of a handful of businesses that can swallow this amount of equipment before making a profit. All the best and thanks for giving my subconscious some material for the next few weeks. I've dreamed about walking into a thrift store with a Pioneer SX-1250 for $40...keep dreaming in Canada.
5:00 minute mark - Burhoe Acoustics "Blue" model - my friend had these in the late 70's. Designed by Winslow Burhoe. Used to blast rush and Pink Floyd through them. Great, rare speakers.
Still have my Crimson Burhoes...completely rebuilt and ungraded the tweeters from the Light Blue model....for some reason some of the Crimsons had a hard dome and some came with the inverted domes...since one of my domes wasn't original the matching inverted tweeters were a great find.
That Charlie Byrd Trio album you pulled down in the first room - He and his brother Joe were MD. residents and quite famous jazz musicians, saw them often at the Maryland Inn's King of France tavern when I worked there in the 70's, check it out!
What a fabulous tour! I was an audio agent from 1975 to 1982 in Eastern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦for Craig Car Stereo, AKG , Alsop , Koss Headphones & Altec Lansing . You brought back so many memories calling on Stereo dealers east of Toronto to Ottawa mentioning brands like MacIntosh, Carver , Yamaha , Thorens, TEAC, AR , KEF , Kenwood & Pioneer & so many more . You are so knowledgeable on these great products. Thank you for sharing!
I'd rather have a BX-300 or CR-7A, they're simpler to repair and more reliable. The RX202 and 505 were nice back in the day for recording FM broadcast concerts without interruption (they were the only units Nakamichi made with auto reverse recording capability) but nowadays thats not much of a draw. The people who bought those machines usually weren't audiophiles and they bought them because they were flashy andl cool, but because you can't see the or reach the tape heads easily almost nobody that owned those machines ever bothered to clean them, and the heads are usually badly worn from lack of maintenance.
That Yamaha T-2 is one of the best tuners ever made. Wait until you see how heavy that thing is. I need to sell mine, it's too good for me. I'll just settle with my T-1.
@@johneddy3951 You're a madman! But seriously, I don't need it. If I had one good station to listen to, I would keep it. The only radio station I listen to, WFMU, I have to stream. Chicago radio is 100% garbage.
I only chance on your channel occasionally, I usually go for either EE or theory, or history, but no disrespect. One observation about this episode: Freeze-framing the test equipment, it might be worth as much as the audio equipment combined, as I'm sure your partner already knows! Just the stereo inspection scope, which I couldn't see the brand of, could still be worth _thousands_ as-is (glass doesn't go bad, oculars are replaceable.) I bet there's tons of frequency generators, power supplies, distortion analyzers, etc. That will make you a ton of money if your partner doesn't keep it! Besides that, if you're not a McIntosh fetishist, every NAD piece is a treasure. All of them. And, if I'm not hallucinating, you didn't point out a TEAC or similar Korean War-era "portable" reel-to-reel, tube throughout and modular. These sound *amazing*, as do the Sansuis which frequently have a similar provenance if from the 60s (GIs bringing them home after buying them and using them on base.) If that is one of those folding, portable, modular power and pre reel-to-reels from the late 50s, you have to give a listen while it lives; unfortunately, they also tend to have unobtanium, as do the early germanium PNP transistor equipment. So yeah, dig deeper to get viewers like me! And do a video on the test equipment if you can.
Nice :D :D :D Whats the plan?!? Work your way through them, and fix them? Super lucky man!!! See a couple of things in there that i'd love :D That old Crown, Caught my eye :) Subbed
You have got your work cut out for you. I worked part time for 35 years in a family owned electronics repair, and it looked remarkably like that (although we primarily did TVs, I got everything else plus the ones the technicians couldn't fix). We had a pile of stuff when the owner retired that we had to dispose of as the building was rented. It was primarily composed of items that the customers didn't want repaired, and we didn't feel would turn a profit if we repaired and resold. Now time may have altered the demand for many of those items, and it looks like your source was better than the shop I was in for keeping the items together, but I would put money on most of them needing repair. Anyway, looks like a nice find if the price was right.
Yeah most of that stuff will be a nightmare repairing it and trying to get your money back out of it. There is a good reason the owner sold all that stuff ya know. I predict a lot if not most will end up on E-bay "as is". Good luck to the buyer getting rid of it.
I hope he didn't pay more than 6k for all of that, as you say i guess around 80% was broken and because it was all stacked and some parts in bags, the parts to repair them are "unobtainable" or too expensive to be worth repairing...... The brand names mean nothing if there all broken, as you say, sold "as is" on auction and pray someone else can repair them under a labour of love...... The guy seems positive, and i think he will spiel his way into selling alot of the stuff, as i read many of the comments saying they would like, but will they pay?...... If its an ongoing business, he proberly could make a go of it just on the exhisting clientèle, and the stock is just something he can make alittle back on...... over quiet a while and effort if he can repair it all...... i dont envy his position here, but i guess he is no fool..... good luck, im sure he will survive, and as many have said..... Respect and best wishes to the family for their loss, im in uk, so i dont know the gentleman, but from all of what i have read, im sure he was well loved in his community and will be missed greatly..... a decent guy.... R.I.P to the gentleman.
I don't normally comment but this is what happened to our local communities. You could be an average guy and get into a decent hobby and then get familiar with the local hi fi. There is almost nothing left of that. Getting anything repaired reliably these days is almost impossible. I am glad these guys still care and try to reach out qirh thier knowledge
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Might have been nice to acknowledge the passing of Brett Mullins, the owner of HiFi Heaven and the store that you bought. He was a good guy and this video feels like gleefully picking through the belongings of a dead man. Yeah, it's a delicate balance, but maybe just a tip of the hat at some point would have been nice.
When you're buying estate stuff it would be weird to mention whoever owned it unless you personally knew them. I can't pin down the exact reason atm but it feels wrong to bring up whoever's stuff it was when you have no connection to them.
@@Sirmooses This is different than buying from a nameless estate. HiFi Heaven was a well-known audio store/repair shop in the same general area that was around for decades. I'm sure the folks at Just Audio were familiar with Brett and his business. Seems kind of cold just to ignore him.
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Are you saying he is like some kind of buzzard?
@@samuelnorton7012 yes lol
Nice find- I worked with Brett Mullins over 40 years ago at Atlantis Sound in Falls Church. Brett was the company service manager and at the time Atlantis had around 30 stores on the east Coast from Boston to Richmond. Brett was a technical genius. Also a great guy. Wish you would have talked a little about what Brett meant to Audio Community in the DC area. Passed way to soon.
Bob, thanks so much for sharing. I didn't know him so wasn't able to touch on it but I really appreciate you sharing!
I worked for Atlantis Sound in Cambridge, Boston and Providence. I met my wife, who worked at the Framingham store..
Someone like you is what we needed, as many did not know the man. Thank you for sharing that knowledge.
Very cool purchase and a great looking shop that clearly had tons of love put into it. That said, I checked the listings and the prices listed are pure comedy. $4k for a Pioneer SX-1050 😂 even in the current inflated market that is delusional.
This guy has typical used car salesman attitude and is trying to bank on a overhyped vintage audio market. Lack of knowledge cost money
An overhauled SX-1980, a far bigger, heavier, more complex unit, might sell for $2G's (it costs about a grand in parts and labor to make them reliable), but 4 grand for an SX-1080 is insane. And good luck shipping these things safely and securely. Even double boxed, the potential for major shipping damage is high.
@@photo_n_art , The proprietor is obviously too young to be familiar with much of the equipment that he just got his hands on. He could do some research and familiarize himself, but but that might cause him to have to re-evaluate what the stuff is actually worth on the used equipment market, or how much he willl have to put into it in order to make it reliable so he can sell it honestly and with full disclosure, and any knowledge that cuts into the bottom line of his profits is likely to be avoided or ignored.
No kidding! I've bought, sold & traded vintage equipment for years. His prices are insane & laughable at best, but there's a sucker born every minute as they say. Just sad he takes advantage of folks not in the know. That's just highway robbery & he know's it! No shame.
@@goodun2974 I agree on shipping, I've had loads of technics and other reel to reel machines, they weigh an absolute ton and packing was a nightmare.
I knew Brett Mullins, who owned this shop, HiFi Heaven in Falls Church, as a customer and he worked on a number of pieces for me over the years. Brett was a true original and very gifted with electronics. He was also a great storyteller and I knew when I was going to be stopping by HiFi Heaven chances were high that it would be an hour plus trip, but worth it always. I'm glad this stuff is staying local, and that all those unfinished projects are going to get seen through to the end. But I thought your video shortchanged the talented tech who assembled this collection in the first place by just skipping over him, and not even acknowledging his death....I don't know man, it all feels kind of off, all focus on just the business of it and not so much on the human part of this place.
Sam, while I didn't know him enough to talk about him. Only meeting him once or twice. I appreciate your story of him and I hope people read it and see the great person that he was!
I bet if there were any real high end pieces, they would've been quietly removed...
Brett was a legend in the DC area hifi business. He is gone too soon. Hope his family got a good bit of cash for this estate. As others have said, would have been nice to note Brett’s history. I am sure when you guys move on from Just Audio, you would appreciate the shout out for providing excellent service to the vintage hifi community
Thanks for the personal information for us viewers.
Now we know a bit more thanks to you. *thumbsup*
So no mention of WHY this was shop was even up for sale? Brett's passing was a loss to our community and as a fellow repair shop owner you truly missed an opportunity to pay him some respect. Would have taken 30 seconds.
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That Fanfare FTA-100 is a fairly rare tuner. It's one of the few AMAX certified component tuners with C-QUAM AM-stereo. While the AM sections of most tuners made over the past 40-50 years begin to roll off audio between 2-4kHz, that Fanfare is among the few with a wideband AM section that will extend up out to 10kHz (which is the maximum AM stations can broadcast analog audio in the US). Being AMAX certified, it also features advanced noise blanking, and follows the NRSC-1 audio de-emphasis curve that many stations use today. Awesome find.
Very interesting! Thanks for helping!
Wow, you bought HiFi Heaven! I went there a few times with my son, who is super into vintage audio stuff. Brett was always really great. Too bad about his passing. Rest In Peace. Looks like the shop was quite a bit thinned down since last time I saw it, but glad there were a few gems still in there. It was quite an incredible place.
Would be cool to configure a complete system out of all that gear, of matching brand and vintage, and list that as a unit, and or do a review of it. (p.s. as mentioned by others below, owner was Brett Mullins of HiFiHeavenRepairs, Falls Church Va, passed age 63, some info on webs)
Oh my, yes, that was an untimely passing. Can't help but wonder how the worry of managing an audio/hifi business weighed upon Mr Mullins, with so many disappearing day after day.
He was taken too soon.
What does having so many B&Os in a repair shop tell you? I did electronic repair for over 40 years and the reason for so many is when you tell them the cost they say No Way Keep It.
Tells me theres a treaure box of MMC's sitting around... which I found!
@@LennyFlorentine , BNO cartridges will go bad just sitting there. Not only does the rubber suspension dry up and lose elasticity elasticity but there are crimped connections to the coils inside and sometimes they oxidize and you lose continuity. Anyway, like the other commenter here I've worked on far too many pieces of B&O gear over the years, and the stuff is just outright crap.
Dynakit Mark IV was a mono power amp. It is a mono block with the Stereo 70 design.
It's fine if you pass by the boring speakers, 'cause they're not your jam, but if you find some interesting speakers you should definitely pause to cover them. Decks, turntables, and especially amplifiers are really cool, but they're useless without speakers. So don't discount them too quickly. Having said that, they don't appear to be that shop's bread and butter either, so their selection is a bit on the dull side.
The Revox !! I'm in love wish I had the cash to buy that one very special indeed CD or Reel to reel Amazing the absolute best European gear bar none. Turntable very rare
You know more than anything I am just happy you all at Just Audio are doing so well. Your continued success is much deserved. I have a Grundig Satellite 800 which has all digital meters except one. Grundig's are shortwave and international radios. Late at night when you get the best atmospheric conditions you can listen far away as the UK and California, Canada, Mexico and more. Things like HUGE solar flares, listening location, RF interference and other techno-geek stuff can affect radio reception range. I'll soon be bringing in 2 Pioneer cassette decks, CTW910R and CTW850R plus a Pioneer RT707 for a record head replacement. Looking at a Pioneer SX 1980 too.
Thanks Wolf! great insight as always. When you come in, we have a 1980 setup in the listening room!
@@LennyFlorentine Get a pair of built or kit Speakerlab Ks for that Pioneer. They were killer on a 4 digit serial number( the key) Marantz 2270. They should be as good. Don’t play the first band of the sound track from Earthquake at full volume ( as my sister did by accident) if you want to keep your sliding glass doors or windows uncracked!!!
The Tandberg TCD-3004 (The Original) was up to Nak Dragon standards. ...and I'm a Nakamichi fanboy. I used to work at a Stereo store, in the 80's and the boss took me to see a new Tandberg line. Tor Siverstein, of Tandberg, showed us the line, had a TCD-3004 taken apart, etc. It was a tank with very cutting edge technology. Unfortunately, they still used Tandberg grease, which tended to seize over the years.
Great info Jon! We've had the 3004 on the bench for a while now haha
The Tandberg was arguably the best sounding and performing deck of its time. I remember when it came out, it was shown at Henry Radio in Anaheim, CA, and we were all just blown away that a cassette could sound so good. Mated to it's matching receiver, it really showed what the future was like. I don't think the Nakamichi was available just yet. I was in junior high school, and my mom would drop me off, so I could buy parts, and then listen to unaffordable audio! It was also when the Thelma Houston "I've got the music in me" Sheffield Direct to Disc came out, so it was a great lesson. The speakers were Ohm Acoustics, early generation, and it was also the first time I heard the DBX Noise Reduction system for turntables to get the clicks and pops out.
So, when we heard the Tandberg, up against other components, it was remarkable. I think they also made some recordings, and then A/B the Thelma Houston on vinyl, vs the Tandberg recording.
Wow that is a great load of vintage audio i could spend months looking at every thing .
WONDER WHO ALL THOSE UNREPAIRED ITEMS BELONG TO? BROGUHT INTO A SHOP AND NEVER REPAIRED.
Awesome. Audiophiles don't realize that it's not about spending $35.000. on a pair of speakers that make us tick, It is finding that vintage piece that brings back memories of the first time we played something on it. It's that Amp that you could fry an egg on, but with a fan on it, you could listen to Van Halen till 2:00 AM
How much did u pay for all that stuff??
So nice to see that all those classic pieces are in good hands now again. The new technology simply can't duplicate the rich beautiful sounds of the old setups.
R.I.P. Brett Mullins ; He's gone off to the higher hi-fi Heaven.
Thanks Shane!
✨You bought 4 rooms of JUNK!😂😂😂
Maybe, we will see
@17:04 I LOVE THAT REVOX REEL-TO-REEL!
THE fisher with the bird music note in its beak is avery fishers company back when he was in NYC. His company was sold off to Sanyo and thats when they just went by fisher or studio standard. Sanyo dropped the line as was told to me by sanyo it was making them bankrupt. Anything fisher is excellent quality ESPECIALLY THE fisher.
NHT you said you were not familiar with it is a very good speaker from the 90s and then they sold out and the newer stuff isn't as good the NHT stands for Now Hear This the 1.5 and 2.5 and 2.9 and 3.3 are all great speakers the 2.9 and 3.3 are legendary
Cool collection, but i get the impression this is the scraps from a much more impressive inventory
Seems like an unwise investment in these challenging economic times
Having managed Hi-Fi stores in the '70s and '80s this brings back a lot of memories of selling that stuff when it was new. Living near Chicago I would go to the CES show every year and met amazing people like Saul Marantz and Henry Kloss. I still have a few gems from that era like an Infinity FET pre-amp, a Marantz 250 power amp in the original wood fretwork case, and a Nakamichi 600 wedge-shaped cassette deck. Good times!
Good stuff, I hope you didn’t pay any more than five grand for the whole lot
I wonder how many people in the area are watching this and thinking we that’s my unit lol
Oh the memories…. I remember when these were all new and advantageous requirement. I am vintage rather than just old?
Oh my GOODNESS, Lenny! So that's where you all have been! How exciting! AND (Where's my GD TV?) lol Congratulations on your great haul!
Thank you! It's in! I think Carl is supposed to call you to schedule the install.
Your techs will be working overtime on all that stuff
Beds in the warehouse!
Good luck, looks like a huge money pit.
looks like you have a lot of amps to fix you will have to assume they are all broken until you inspect and test each one.
I just hope the guy that sold them to you didn't sell them because he could not fix them.
i hope you can fix some and get your investment back good luck.
Channel: “We bought an entire hi-fi store!”
Me: Ooh! Cool turntables and speakers!
Channel: “Well, here’s some turntables; here’s one that’s TRASH, and we’re skipping the speakers cuz they’re just not fun…” 17:58
Bonus: “I don’t know who Charlie Bird is but it looks cool…”
Me: “Ok bruh, peace out…”
I totally enjoyed this tour and to buy a store with all of this vintage equipment is awesome WOW 👀 ( MIND BLOWING) it's like vintage ( HEAVEN) great job going through this equipment ❤️
Thanks Reginald!!
I had a Lafayette amp, 2 Criterion speakers and a Garrard record player new in 1968..
On the way home drop the load off at GoodWill and take the deduction. See if there’s any 45 spindles you can save. Charlie Byrd. Any jazz aficionado would know
Sorry to tell ya buddy but hifi audio is str8 up junk.....try sundown or audio pope even American bass but hifi??? Lmao 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Here in the Netherlands and Europe, FM is slowly replaced by DAB+.
Many FM receivers will become obsolete in the near future.
What a shame.
#2,, did you get the building For something of value . NO , too bad
looks like every piece need
$500 ++ of work all leaking caps dryed out drivers it's Close to a Mid Fi Gragage sale
What a collection, and boy are you up for some work resurrecting that lot, just a pity its on the wrong side of the planet for me.
(Boy is US couriers etc. $$$$$$$)
You use the word "cool" more than 7000 times in this clip, so about time you learned to talk properly.
50+ pieces of gear and only one adjective to describe them: 'Cool'.
Talk about boring.
I have take a look at your website, man those prices....... do you want to be rich? Ridiculous.
The Bang & Olufson in the movie was a Beosystem 4500, the one you have is a Beocenter 7000 or a 7007 its much older fra the 1980.
The remote is for a System 5000 the remote is two way system, the remote was showing what the 5000 system was doing.
At 19:49 there is a Beogram 6000/8000, if it is a Beogram 8000/8002 it is one of the best player in the world.
The thing about B&O is that it doesn't have to look like the chief designer's lunch box to be good, they made things so they were also nice to look at.
regards from Denmark.
You lost me at.. "I'm not that into McIntosh"... but the B&O Boombox is "cool". UGH.....
How You can don,t know company C.E.C. :-)))) ? Are You audio fan or..:-) ?
Am looking for a period correct pre amp to compliment my 1977 Pioneer 8500 series 2 amplifier
NAD 7100 is actually a very nice piece. Have one with the remote.
You were a bit casual about the Nakamichi T-100 analyser (rare and limited production, have one) and the big Quad ESL Electrostatic speakers ;-) Nice equipment there, still drooling!
Thanks Jan! Had no idea about the T-100 until I got flooded with e-mails.
@@LennyFlorentine Keep it if it works. It's a great unit to diagnose audio equipment and the display is soooo nice ;-)
@@Z4NL i use a T100 on my bench at work (audio repair shop). Excellent low distortion signal generator, distortion meter and power-output meter. I don't use it for tape deck measurements but one of the other techs does..
@@goodun2974 To align tape and cassette deck heads you will need the Nakamichi reference tapes. The signal generator and pink noise generator are very useful. Very desirable due to the nice and responsive gas discharge display.
@@Z4NL , yes, I'm aware ---- I work with a guy who has been servicing Nak decks for 30 years, and he has the reference tapes. Myself, I use the T-100 for measuring amplifier output power and distortion.
I'm old enough to remember reading reviews of many of these pieces and seeing them in audio stores in the 70s and 80s. This is an awesome collection!
I liked the AR5's. These were sleepers. Did not go down as low as AR3a's. Sounded really good but did not sell well as they were not that much cheaper than the 3's. Problem with all the vintage AR's and JBL's: those problematic L-pads. Henry Kloss was smart there - he either did a simple three-way toggle that phased in resistors or nothing. I really prefer nothing - less to go wrong.
Having fiberglass insulation stapled to the inside of the cabinets meant that fiberglass ended up in the L-pads, and of course the wire-wound resistor elements and wiper contacts oxidized over the years anyway. You could probably take them apart and polish the contacts, but it might be easier to just replace them.
i'm thinking you brought a repair store that went bust..
I would go through any records that company has and see if you can contact the owners..
Cool Hifi vintage stereo Equipment!! I bought one Brand New Klipsch R820FB 400 watt speaker for my Denon AVR-1907 I need to save up more $$$ to buy more ya i know i bought only one speaker hey it was on sale at London drugs still is but im sure not for long. Hey it sounds Bad ASS. I like them a lot they have lots of power! hey Just audio do u sell Klipsch Speaker's??
I just wonder what percentage of these classic component’s actually work!
10% actually worked when we got them. Lots to fix.
That graphic equaliser behind your right shoulder tho.
👍🏻😎 I'll bet a lot of it was gear dropped off and the owners were never to be seen again, that happens more than you'd think in the repair business and you can definitely get a lot of gear for free that way. RIP to the former owner and condolences to his family.
yep, a guy named Hunter did that with a laptop
@@4431charlie🙌🤣
What size dumpster did you need for all the cassette players?
b&o 8000 was the top of the line stereo came with a wireless remote for 1978
You guys Have a nice collection there, how much for the pioneer 1010?
OMG! AR-5's, Kyocera, (I remember my Sansui 9090DB), Tanberg was excellent, Luxman was Alpine car audio, (Luxman also made tube receivers/amps), Carver is a million watts for $50 bucks, (real crap), but at least he came out with Accuphase.
Love this channel!
Theta is definitely audiophile gear
I like the enthusiasm of this guy, he so passionate about vintage audio and he knows his stuff..
I try haha thanks for your kind words!
But he's skipping the speakers. A lot of vintage speakers still sound awesome but you can buy them for cheap. I'll stop watching the video now that I know that no speakers will be shown. ;)
Naaah man… typical car salesman attitude… if you know anything about vintage HiFi you know that B&O was overpriced pile of hot garbage just like Bose. I have seen most of the stuff when it was still sold in retail stores. The urban legends about some of the vintage gear that is spread now by millennials makes me wanna cry. A lot (if not most) of the vintage hifi was hot garbage in a shiny box, you really had to know what was half decent not to waste your money… if you have listened to heavily compressed streaming audio thru Bluetooth speakers for your whole life than yeah this will sound 1000 times better but a lot of the stuff was just cleverly marketed mediocre at best components
@@photo_n_art , I have had to repair enough Bang and Olufsen, and Bose, equipment that I know from experience just what crap it is.
@@goodun2974 Amen brother 😎👍
No thanks, too much old tech chaos !
You are right there. Up for the challenge!
I liked that HH Scott stereo amp in room one. I have the identical amp that was a kit that I built in 1965 and over the years had to repair it a few times, but it's a great stereo amp. I might be interested in the one you have, even if it isn't working. I still have the schematic and the construction manual and spare parts for mine.
Looking for a onkyo TX31 receiver(30 watts per chnl) anybodty have one??‽???
Lots of interesting stuff but that job lot has the potential of having a massive number of hours to get them all going! Good luck with it all!
Also, how don’t you know about the Yamaha CT7000 from the first room? One of the most iconic and highly regarded tuners ever made!😛
Gonna know about it soon! Probably a video on that one! Thanks KJ!
That CT7000 is an all time classic. RF and audio performance is superb.
That sansui tu-999 is nice. I have one paired with a mcintosh system. Aesthetically, a really good match.
No doubt! I have anxiety over the 30 pieces of vintage stuff in my family room! Haha! I think it's awesome...as long as you have the time and knowledge! Knowing myself, I would become a freaky hoarder and I'd be found buried under this load of metal. Good luck, John!
I still like my CR820 like the ones you show here. I find the sound good enough for me and aesthetically they are the best balanced looks of the Yamahas with a good combination of switches and tuning needle windows. The larger Yamahas have smaller windows and look out of proportion to me. The satin brush aluminum face and dials looks classier to me than either black or the more silvery look of other brands and I think the lighting is classier.
I repaired a CR820 recently ---- it had about 30 small capacitors that were either leaking electrically (causing very noisy switches and controls) or actually leaking electrolyte and corroding the leads of the parts. The output was intermittent and it went into protection periodically because one of the driver IC's was bad and causing DC offset (we have a few in stock and were able to replace the bad one, but they're no longer available). The CR820 sounds pretty good but they suck to work on, and the tuner's not as good as some of their other models. I found it extremely annoying that the only parts on the circuit board that actually had silk screen numbers for the components with the transistors. None of the capacitors or resistors had silkscreened numbers on the board, which made it very difficult to troubleshoot. They cheaped out like this on some of their other units and and I find it extremely aggravating.
That is good to know. I hopefully got lucky with mine and will not have the same issues. I plan on opening it up again this year to spray the volume control as it is getting scratchy. Hopefully it is not something worse. Aside from that the only other issue with my system is a loud hum that comes intermittently from the phono when switched. Not sure yet as to cause. I do not work with electronics so have little experience with what is quality electrical components. I am only commenting on the units from a physical appearance and sound. I am sure there are better quality units available either for more money and maybe even the same money.
I just see room after room with old junk, sorry...
if i was there i would feel drunk with how many stuff i wanted for my colection not knowing what to choose first, like that carver cd player that goes with my amp and pre-amp from the same series ,phase linear was also one of my favorite brands bought by pioneer and they release a fantastic deck from P.L. as ct-X1 or A1 or similar but mainly in plastic, the QUAD guys i know would be crazy with those components there allthough most of them have that series ,early 80´s if memory doesn´t fail me
That National is a Preamplifier from the National Radio Company of Malden Massachusetts, a well know manufacturer of Amateur (Ham) Radio equipment, in business from 1914 to 1991. The preamp is part of their Criterion Line of Broadcast AM/FM receivers from 1956. They are not related to National Panasonic.
What kind of system do you have:) would be interesting
Did all the original owners abandon this stuff cuz it was too expensive to fix or parts were unavailable?. Lots of primo equipment there.
Unfortunately the previous owner passed away. But he sure did have some great stuff from decades of collecting!
@@LennyFlorentine wow, all that belonging to one person.
Hope you got this for a steal. You might be one of a handful of businesses that can swallow this amount of equipment before making a profit. All the best and thanks for giving my subconscious some material for the next few weeks. I've dreamed about walking into a thrift store with a Pioneer SX-1250 for $40...keep dreaming in Canada.
5:00 minute mark - Burhoe Acoustics "Blue" model - my friend had these in the late 70's. Designed by Winslow Burhoe. Used to blast rush and Pink Floyd through them. Great, rare speakers.
Dude they are great sounding!
Still have my Crimson Burhoes...completely rebuilt and ungraded the tweeters from the Light Blue model....for some reason some of the Crimsons had a hard dome and some came with the inverted domes...since one of my domes wasn't original the matching inverted tweeters were a great find.
I have about 7 times more than this wanna buy it all?
You are walking pass some great turntables….
He also walked past a lot of record changers and PE and Dual turntables that should all go into a dumpster.
That Charlie Byrd Trio album you pulled down in the first room - He and his brother Joe were MD. residents and quite famous jazz musicians, saw them often at the Maryland Inn's King of France tavern when I worked there in the 70's, check it out!
Wow really Scott! very cool info on a local band that I had no idea about. Will have to keep that one!
he did state department-sponsored good will tours in the 60s.
What a fabulous tour! I was an audio agent from 1975 to 1982 in Eastern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦for Craig Car Stereo, AKG , Alsop , Koss Headphones & Altec Lansing . You brought back so many memories calling on Stereo dealers east of Toronto to Ottawa mentioning brands like MacIntosh, Carver , Yamaha , Thorens, TEAC, AR , KEF , Kenwood & Pioneer & so many more . You are so knowledgeable on these great products. Thank you for sharing!
Sweet! A Nakamichi RX-505! The only cassette deck better is the Dragon!
And a 1000ZXL...and ZX-9 ;)
I'd rather have a BX-300 or CR-7A, they're simpler to repair and more reliable. The RX202 and 505 were nice back in the day for recording FM broadcast concerts without interruption (they were the only units Nakamichi made with auto reverse recording capability) but nowadays thats not much of a draw. The people who bought those machines usually weren't audiophiles and they bought them because they were flashy andl cool, but because you can't see the or reach the tape heads easily almost nobody that owned those machines ever bothered to clean them, and the heads are usually badly worn from lack of maintenance.
I wonder how many times he says cool
That Yamaha T-2 is one of the best tuners ever made. Wait until you see how heavy that thing is. I need to sell mine, it's too good for me. I'll just settle with my T-1.
I would keep it. I only recently got a T2 to go with my 1980 T1. I'll keep both!
@@johneddy3951 You're a madman! But seriously, I don't need it. If I had one good station to listen to, I would keep it. The only radio station I listen to, WFMU, I have to stream. Chicago radio is 100% garbage.
I only chance on your channel occasionally, I usually go for either EE or theory, or history, but no disrespect.
One observation about this episode: Freeze-framing the test equipment, it might be worth as much as the audio equipment combined, as I'm sure your partner already knows! Just the stereo inspection scope, which I couldn't see the brand of, could still be worth _thousands_ as-is (glass doesn't go bad, oculars are replaceable.) I bet there's tons of frequency generators, power supplies, distortion analyzers, etc. That will make you a ton of money if your partner doesn't keep it!
Besides that, if you're not a McIntosh fetishist, every NAD piece is a treasure. All of them. And, if I'm not hallucinating, you didn't point out a TEAC or similar Korean War-era "portable" reel-to-reel, tube throughout and modular. These sound *amazing*, as do the Sansuis which frequently have a similar provenance if from the 60s (GIs bringing them home after buying them and using them on base.) If that is one of those folding, portable, modular power and pre reel-to-reels from the late 50s, you have to give a listen while it lives; unfortunately, they also tend to have unobtanium, as do the early germanium PNP transistor equipment.
So yeah, dig deeper to get viewers like me! And do a video on the test equipment if you can.
Thanks for all the knowledge! Glad to have you watching at least sometimes Scott!
Quads are great speakers, don’t discount these speakers
Fun video! You had me at big VU meters 😊
Thanks! Can never pass on those!
@Techmoan might be interested in some of that
Yet another private owned hifi dealer gone.
Nice :D :D :D
Whats the plan?!? Work your way through them, and fix them?
Super lucky man!!!
See a couple of things in there that i'd love :D
That old Crown, Caught my eye :)
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Thank you! Yeah working through it all and man is it some work!
this is a bit sad as Hifi Heaven was my local hi-fi shop. That being said, I'm not surprised it went under :(
Can't believe you skipped by the Stanley tape measure without mentioning it.
Dang!
@@LennyFlorentine That's what I said when I stopped by the store and saw that SX-1980, Dang.
You have got your work cut out for you. I worked part time for 35 years in a family owned electronics repair, and it looked remarkably like that (although we primarily did TVs, I got everything else plus the ones the technicians couldn't fix). We had a pile of stuff when the owner retired that we had to dispose of as the building was rented. It was primarily composed of items that the customers didn't want repaired, and we didn't feel would turn a profit if we repaired and resold. Now time may have altered the demand for many of those items, and it looks like your source was better than the shop I was in for keeping the items together, but I would put money on most of them needing repair. Anyway, looks like a nice find if the price was right.
Isn't it pretty easy to determine what is worth repair based on how good it was new?
Yeah most of that stuff will be a nightmare repairing it and trying to get your money back out of it. There is a good reason the owner sold all that stuff ya know. I predict a lot if not most will end up on E-bay "as is". Good luck to the buyer getting rid of it.
I hope he didn't pay more than 6k for all of that, as you say i guess around 80% was broken and because it was all stacked and some parts in bags, the parts to repair them are "unobtainable" or too expensive to be worth repairing......
The brand names mean nothing if there all broken, as you say, sold "as is" on auction and pray someone else can repair them under a labour of love......
The guy seems positive, and i think he will spiel his way into selling alot of the stuff, as i read many of the comments saying they would like, but will they pay?......
If its an ongoing business, he proberly could make a go of it just on the exhisting clientèle, and the stock is just something he can make alittle back on...... over quiet a while and effort if he can repair it all...... i dont envy his position here, but i guess he is no fool..... good luck, im sure he will survive, and as many have said.....
Respect and best wishes to the family for their loss, im in uk, so i dont know the gentleman, but from all of what i have read, im sure he was well loved in his community and will be missed greatly..... a decent guy.... R.I.P to the gentleman.
@@davidlong1786if you have some brains, straight hands and service manual it's easy to repair almost any thing from this store
Maybe time to cut back on the caffeine.
not much vintage Sony items :
The YAMAHA CR-2020 when reconditioned will make someone a Great Music System
I don't normally comment but this is what happened to our local communities. You could be an average guy and get into a decent hobby and then get familiar with the local hi fi. There is almost nothing left of that. Getting anything repaired reliably these days is almost impossible. I am glad these guys still care and try to reach out qirh thier knowledge
Thanks Mike! Appreciate that!
Why does everyone think they have to have their mouth wide open when posing for a photo?