[Jukebox-list] AMI G 120. Bought it.

[Jens Hultgren]

I would paint it back to canary yellow with some gold flake added...most of
them I've seen were black or red, the other colours are somewhat "rare".
Also the paint schemes are part of what makes the square AMIs unique.
The grill cloth was the best!

  Jens

On 2/20/07, Steve Wahl <steve at pro-ns.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:45:35PM -0800, Mechanical Music of S.F. wrote:
> >
> > Upper horn and crossover are good.
>
> Don't know if I ever mentioned: the crossover in my AMI F had a bad
> capacitor in it.  Originally, the horn didn't work, but just replacing
> the cap fixed it, and it sounded great.  (At least for a while; later
> the horn died, and had to be replaced; now I wonder if they're
> related.)  Anyway, a dead horn on an AMI F or G may just be the
> crossover, not necessarily the horn.
>
> > One question right away.  The GE cartridge in it was a ceramic,
> right?  I'm
> > probably going to replace with something like a Stanton 500 for the sake
> of
> > the records.
>
> No, the GE is magnetic.  Still mono, no vertical compliance so it's
> not nice to stereo records.  But better for you if you want to replace
> the cartridge, as the amp is electrically compatible with a current
> magnetic cartridge without any wiring changes or adding any pre-amp.
> I put mine in with the channels wired in parallel and had good
> results, others have recommended in series.
>
> However, if you're thinking of using a Stanton, note that the recent
> conversation about mounting bosses and cartridges applies here.  I
> found the Stanton style cartridges mounted directly ride far too low.
> There's no adjustment that would raise up the rear of the tone arm
> while in play position, and since the cartridge raises the front of
> the tone arm, it plays at an angle that slopes from front to back.
>
> It's severe enough that tracking pressure gets to be a really sensitve
> issue.  Too light, and the records skip.  To heavy and either the
> plastic needle housing rubs on the record, or the rear of the
> cartridge bounces up on slightly warped records.
>
> Your mileage may vary, of course; someone else said they had no
> problem.  But I think you'll find you either have to modify the
> Stanton to sit higer in the tone arm (e.g. making the mounting
> "bracket" fit betwen the posts and fashioning a metal strap to hold
> the cart in place), or get something like a Shure that has plastic
> mounting that's easier to modify, or find a NOS Rockola Shure that's
> already notched propperly, or something along those lines.
> (Personally, I replaced the Stanton with a Shure that I modified
> myself, because at the time I could walk into a Guitar Center store
> and pick up a M44 off the shelf, as it was popular with DJs.  Not sure
> if that's still true.)
>
> > Photos here. Click on each to enlarge. Click again for a bit bigger.
> Thanks
> > to everyone who offered an opinion. It was a great help.
> >
> http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v196/JimDouglasJr/AMI%20G120/?action=view&current=100_1502.jpg
>
> It'd look better with the turntable shroud in place.  Not a
> bad position to start from, though.
>
> Looks like someone painted over the original color that was probably
> the yellow showing through.  Not certain I'd be all that picky about
> returning it to the original color, myself -- if you're at all a
> stickler for authenticity, I'd consider some of the other "factory"
> color options first; if not a stickler, you don't need any adivce from
> me. :-)
>
> Google shows me that the colors can be seen at:
> http://tomszone.com/Photos/AMI/AMI_G_55.html
>
> Why is it that none of the colors look so bad there, but some of them
> seem to look so gaudy in real life? :-) :-) :-)
>
> > Here's some before and after pix of the Seebooger LPC-1/Electra hybrid I
> > just had.
> > Recovered the speakers and added a color gel.
> > http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v196/JimDouglasJr/LPC1%20Electra/
>
> Looks nice, too!
>
> --> Steve
>
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