[Jukebox-list] Weird AMI on eBay Australia

[Bob E.]

At 10:35 AM 1/14/07 +0100, you wrote:
>No Bob, that's a Danish made Jensen IMA-AMI J120
>
>Their nicest model, top-of-the-line, pretty hard to find. Should have
>zebrano veneer though, like a Seeburg A but genuine, not fake. I can believe
>the cabinet stylinwas inspired by M100C, like the models before (J40A and B)
>were by M100A/B.

Wow, I had no idea.  Australia's a long ways from Denmark!   But I guess
they're a long way from lots of places...

>Three revolving colour cylinders, one behind the top logo. One pilaster
>cylindere is upside down...looks rewired on the inside...are those the
>original speakers? And where's the tube amp??

The ad stated that the amp had been "replaced with late-model amplifier".
As for the speakers, you'd expect it to have Jensens, no?  It looks to
have been modernized as an expedient way to keep it operating in the
absence of available authentic replacement parts, a common reaction in
Australia, I think.

Thanks for sharing your encyclopedic knowledge, Jens!

--Bob
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