A great Dynaco Day!

Today was a very good Dynaco day for me. I acquired a mint in the original box PAS-4 tube preamp, 2 SCA-35's and 2 Mark III mono-blocks!

Its amazing what people will throw away... only kidding. I did pay for some of the items.

My truck tilted on one side with all the weight in the passenger side.. :-)

Here is a photo of the PAS-4 preamp as found. Internally it was clean as a whistle.

Regards,
Sal

Great score, Sal!

What's your plan? A multi-room Dynaco system?

Thanks Bob,
Kevin mentioned the link to me and I printed the manual. The PAS-4 does sound really nice. The box and preamp says "Made in USA" so I assumed it was made in the USA. The only issue I noticed with the design is that it has a real small power transformer.

The problem with the manual is it has some guys email address on every page...

Regards,
Sal

Tube Nube wrote:Great score, Sal!

What's your plan? A multi-room Dynaco system?

I have a ST-70 setup in the basement, a ST-70 in my living room but in my spare bedroom, I have a homebrew tube amp I built using the 1626 tubes for a whopping 3/4 per channel.

Thanks,
Sal

Bob,
I figured that was the reason why your email was on every page. I only playing around.

Thanks again for all the manuals you provided.

Sal

Hi Sal,
yes, you had a great day!!
I've only seen 3 or 4 of these for sale over the past few years, and I've bid on a couple but never been able to snag one.
I had a friend that owns one, and I borrowed it for a week. One of the absolute best bargains in hi-fi, if you got it for under $600 it was a steal, and if you ever see another one let me know!
I was going to clone it once but figured it would cost me about $800 to build, which is fine if I knew another dozen people who wanted one, but a little more than what it's worth to me.
Roy

I had to fix one several years ago. A power supply malfunction, as I remember. No particular weakness, just one of those random things. I didn't get to listen extensively to it, though; just sent it on its way after fixing it. Build quality was okay but nothing special.

The PAS 4 website of the time linked to a not so enthusiatic review. That being the only info available at the time I bought a Van Alstine Super PAS4i used from Frank. Not long after that I read a very favorable review of the Dynaco PAS4 and emailed Panor thinking they'd use the better review. They never did.