Honestly Eppie, an old analog AVR is really not worth time or investment. It has had its day and needs a decent burial. The Analog AV era was brief. I got into it just prior to the dawn of HDMI. I dropped my analog AVP like a "hot potato" even though it was two or less years old. It was the correct decision. Really the only reason to have one is for museum display and nothing else. However there are a lot more interesting items to preserve than analog AVRs, or AVPs. Essentially home AV dawned as the digital era really came of age.
Not a word from op any way. Curious what route he will choose.
FYI, I came across some old manuals this weekend. I kept what paperwork I could find on my father's old sound system that came with the house. He bought the house from a German friend who was a real renaissance man. One of those guys that had worked all over and could do just about anything. He built the audio system himself and the amp was a Scott 200 series from a kit. I think it was the Scott 233 as I recall the power rating being around 30W per channel. I still have the instruction manual for assembling the amp and the matching tuner.
I also found a pamphlet on his speakers. They were all Electrovoice drivers, likely from the 1960's, same as the amp. He used both a horn midrange and horn tweeter paired with a 12" or 15" woofer. Those speakers were highly efficient as you could achieve reference level volume with just that 30W tube amp. I could never find the plans for the speakers but closest I could find on-line was the Electrovoice Georgian. Horn drivers in the top and the woofer in an open back corner cabinet design.
His was not the Georgian because the woofer enclosure was very different and the Georgian used a large single horn. I distinctly remember that in his enclosure the woofer was downward firing into a chamber which opened up towards the front of the speaker and then had a completely open back. I think the woofer fired through a semi-circular opening, if that makes any sense. I've been unable to find anything remotely like it in my researches but I will never forget just how good those speakers sounded.
He was a big classical music fan and had a rare tape (reel to reel) recording of the 1812 overture. Verdinut was kind enough to find the recording for me and thinks it was the one originally recorded on the Mercury label, with Antal Dorati conducting the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. The cannons would go off with authority on that old system. I used to get chills when the finale played. Sadly, when he sold the house he took the reel to reel and recording with him and it eventually went to another collector.
