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Sounds fun. It would be cool if you took pictures as you went so we
could see it come together. :) Good luck!
--- In , "Dick Messick" <rmessick2@a...>
wrote:
> I believe that the seller, Retro Amps, is one of the authorized
Hoffman
> board kit manufacturers. Check out the Hoffman Amps site
> (www.hoffmanamps.com) or the Retro Amps site (www.retroamps.com)
for more
> details - these look like real quality kits. The BIN price is the
close to
> the street price for these kits, but the ebay deal appears to be
assembled -
> nice deal. Don't know if the sound improves or not from these
things - I
> would imagine the tonal improvement would come more from the use of
higher
> quality components than from the point-to-point wiring.
>
> Actually, I'm sort of counting on this type of "upgrade" to sound
better . .
> . I *just* got one of the reverb unit "kits" from STF Electronics,
complete
> with a nice black tolex cab (cabinet sold separately). I have been
> seriously contemplating one of these board upgrade kits for a
while, and
> almost bought one of the Hoffman board kits. Then I figured, "what
the
> heck, I'll get the board kit and instead of popping it into my RI
tank, I'll
> build a new tank . . ." - then I remembered one of the discussions
here
> where someone mentioned the STF Electronics "kit", which includes a
chassis,
> the tranny, tubes, the tank, and just about everything else you
need (except
> for the cabinet and some connection wires to the tank). Just got
home from
> a business trip today and had two large packages waiting for me -
I'll
> report on these in more detail in a later post (if you are
intimidated by
> ziplock bags filled with electrical components, don't go this
route!).
> Should be fun!
>
> -Dick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tclineschmidt" <clineschmidt@c...>
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> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 8:12 PM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Anyone tried this reverb upgrade kit?
>
>
> > I saw this on Ebay. Anyone got it? Sound?
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