Saturday, August 19, 2006

Baby room!

Well, the painting is done, and Julie and Mark put up the border today... and it looks GREAT! Here's some pictures of the room - as you'll see, there's still a LOT to do. Tomorrow I'll hopefully take down the tape from around all the moldings, and generally give the place a good cleaning. Then on Tuesday we're supposed to have the floors refinished. And I might even get the new blinds and window sconces up tomorrow. I'm also attaching below a picture of the little music mobile we got which matches the bedding - which matches everything else!






And, on a totally different topic, here's my stereo system - in all it's glory! From top to bottom - Dynaco FM-3 Tuner, Dynaco Stereo-70 Amplifer, Dynaco PAS-2 Preamplifier, and a NAD CD player. The top 3 units are all at least 40 years old and utilize the warm, analog sound of vacuum tubes. Don't ask me which tubes are in there, cause I don't know off-hand, and would either have to open up the cases, or find my receipts from when everything was rebuilt. Actually, I JUST got the PAS-2 preamp. My old one was DEAD - and not worth repairing, considering I bought the new one for a mere $150, which is a great price. I love the sound now of this system - now if I only had a great AM tuner, and maybe a record player... I might take the one from my mom's house if she doesn't care - but I'm also out of space... so I can't do it just yet. Oh yeah, and the dark image is the rack without the flash... hopefully you can kindof see the tubes glowing - especially in the amp. Ideas for a good AM only tuner would be appreciated.... Scott Fybush - there must be a tube HD AM tuner out there somewhere... right?