[Jukebox-list] Seeburg 222 purchase

[Jay Hennigan]

Joey McDonald wrote:
> Hi there Jay,
> 
> Is this the amp that sometimes gets swapped out for a solid state amp?
> Why is this?  Cost to rebuild?  Bad design?  Poor sound quality?

Probably some or all of the above.  The stereo amplifiers were more 
complex than the monaural ones and somewhat cramped inside, transistor 
front-end scared away some of the service people, or after the boxes 
fell into private hands inexpensive transistorized amplifiers were 
available and private collectors didn't want to deal with the tube 
amplifiers.  They typically weren't "swapped", the old amplifier was 
left on the back door and a transistor amp placed loose on the floor of 
the cabinet.

Personally, I don't have much issue with the 220/222 amplifiers.  They 
do sound good when properly rebuilt.  I've done several of them.

> I see that the 6973 tubes are now available form Electroharmonix at a 
> cost of
> about $15 ea.  There was a discussion on the list a while ago about the 
> cost of tubes. I didn't
> have interest in a model 222 at the time so some of the discussion was 
> over my head.

There really was never a true sub for the 6973 and the pricing for real 
NOS 6973s got to the $40 to $50 level.  I haven't personally used any of 
the EH tubes but would think they're of good quality if similar to EH's 
other offerings.

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