Retro-Tech: SAE Mk6 FM Tuner - My Vintage HiFi holy grail
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- čas přidán 31. 08. 2016
- The SAE Mark 6 Tuner is the HiFi component I never thought I'd be able to own, but after years of searching I finally managed to buy one. In this video I'll show you what makes it special to me.
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Four years ago I made a video about the Kaossilator 2 - here it is • Hands on demo of the K...
CORRECTIONS;
03:32 75 ohms
11:45 Beat It (see 11:10)
FURTHER INFO
Things re-posted multiple times in the comments
ODD FREQUENCIES
US radio frequencies step in odd numbers .1.3.5 etc in other countries the standards are different....the UK for example radio stations can use any digit...e.g. 95.1 & 102.0 ...loads written about this in the comments. NOTE.....THE TUNER IS ANALOG...BUT THE DISPLAY IS DIGITAL...so what this means is that as I'm turning the dial it picks up all the frequencies...e.g. 98.1, 98.2, 98.3, 98.4...however the display only changes when it reaches .1,.3,.5, so whilst the display can't show 102.4, I can tune it in perfectly, it's at the top of 102.3 or the bottom of 102.5 ...it's an analogue tuning dial....so there are no problems using this at all, none, not one...nada...it works very very well thanks.
CAPACITORS
Capacitor replacement - discussed to death in the comments ...read through them if you find capacitor chat interesting. :-/
VISUAL OSCILLOSCOPE MUSIC
There are demos you can play on oscilloscopes - most notably by Jerobeam Fenderson....yes I've tried them and they work.
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The oscilloscope feels alive. It's possibly one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Wow thats the most unnecessary bling in any piece of seventies hifi i've ever seen. Love it love it love it, and the price. Gobsmacked. Thanks Techmoan for finding it.
The odd frequency numbers appear, because this is an US-receiver. They have their Band partitioned in that way.
No wonder the company didn’t last super long, that hifi unit is such high quality there’s no way they made much profit off of them
In the US, stations are odd decimals.
Wow, this thing is BEAUTIFUL. I can really appreciate the level of attention that went into a piece of craftsmanship like this.
Sunday 09/04 : the techmoan closed his youtube channel after acquiring his ultimate collection masterpiece.
Tuners skipping even numbers is just how radio works in America. You mean to tell me there are stations that broadcast on, say, 92.2 in the UK??
You managed to create a 3-D rectangular box on an oscilloscope! Well done. I have never seen that before.
I could watch the oscilloscope for hours.
Cheers mate. Chances are very good that I am the person that originally tested and aligned your MK 6. I worked at SAE in the early seventies, and was the only technician working on the MK 6. I worked for Ed Miller, who designed the MK 6 for SAE. He also, previously designed the tuners for Sherwood, that, at the time were built in Chicago, Illinois.
There's something really magical about hearing an old piece of equipment play music 40 years later. Like it's a time traveller- the people who made it never could have imagined the music we'd have today.
The puppet segment cracked me up. Great timing in the cuts 👍.
I think this is my favourite puppet appearance...
Divine!
My cat loved your demonstration of the sounds of the scope. It actually woke him up and he sat in front of me through the entire demonstration.
Techmoan I would personally like to thank you for putting your time into your videos, it is a preservation and a digital museum of the technologies that we have lived with in our lives, a time capsule of the nostalgia that we experience when thinking back in our lives.
This is the most awesome tuner I've seen. I've only saw 1 in person. It's a marvel, and it was futuristic, even in lates 80s.
the oscilloscope patterns are known as lissajous figures if anyone is wondering
I forgot how much that iconography/scripting looked like Marantz, even the knobs. In college , late 70s, I’d ride my bike to all the local hi fi shops. One shop had SAE, so cool. Thxs for the video! Heh.. I had to run your inflation calculator here in Mar 2024: “8,093