Thanks for the replies: Dave in KC, Walt_D, snarzdar, CLD, others...
Regarding the 215 bass cabinet. As I wrote to Dave and some updating:
Of all the Sunn stuff I have, that will be the most difficult for me to sell. You could plug any amp into that cabinet for good things to happen. I haven't researched the market price (as if this was shrimp)?
Just picked up the cabinet today at my sons house where it had been used for the a coffee table (glass over grill cloth) for some time (he doesn't drink coffee though).
Last I heard there was a rattle in the cabinet and I haven't yet pulled the back to check the K145's. I can't imagine that he would have damaged those monsters. But best to check before listing the cabinet. Somewhere in time I stretched some 1969 Vox grill cloth over the front to match a back stage of beatle amps. Suppose I'll have to remove and check the original grill cloth for any battle scars as it has been too many years.
Back in the early days, local Sunn and Vox dealers were promoting their wares and often threw stuff at some of us just so other locals would get some sort of message that their equipment was somehow superior. Other than Super Reverbs, Fender was somehow not cool later 60's. Kustom had its raise and fall in about 1966-68. I had one of the first Kustom bass riggs for a few months, as Buddy Ross and design engineer Fred Berry lived a few blocks from me. Their LutzTone (sp?) amps got money backing because you could drop them off the back of a truck and they would bounce and still go.
I'm selling a three lot of Dynaco ST-120's and looking at the inside of my concert leads and colliseums. Same design electronics - Some mind-set, moving from WWll tubes to transisters. Back and forth we go. What a show.
Perhaps it is more than reasonable that the vintage Sunn begins to match or exceed other vintage equipment, in no small measure, as the result of the likes of crazy forum talk and such bidding wars/ values we see just lately. But, it is all about the sound, the smell of tolex (when new), or why does a rickenbacker smell different that a fender or a Gibson. It's a universal hug when any piece of old-fart equipment actually fires up after being abandoned or abused after so many years.
With your assistance we can get a model number. But with the K145's you do need more than several pumped arms to lift and tote.
I also have a long list of vintage other-stuff electronics/ band equipment that I am researching to list on Craigslist & eBay.
I'll put Sunn discussion page on my list of passionate equipment forums that may or may not be interested. Sunn or not.
I am somewhat surprised in the lack of a want or information suggesting any role in the vintage Sunn revival for the "Studio PA" speakers I have. Too shallow for good 15' Bass guitar sound probably? Mod to other size speakers for high bass or guitar? Alhough the JBL LE175S (s=Sunn) horn drivers long ago died, the 90 degree cast iron horns are intact. The JBL D130AS 15's I'm sure were reconned or replaced some years ago. The chromed steel plates that receives a speaker stand was well ahead of its time in 1967. The original JBL N1200 xovers were later replaced with Heathkit electronic units (this all years before rack mounted electronics). Small holes drilled in the side of the cabinets supported a small but adequate stage lighting array including a OMG hand made motor driven strobescope that later burnt a hole through some old wooden stage in downtown Ottawa, KS. The 100S PA head was later ripped off by a local music store shyster when I took it in for repair. DAMN
Somebody must love these cabinets as much or more that I? For a small venue, four of these on stands, as they were once powered by four McIntoish MC40's would be an amazing sight. (Some grill cloth restore, horn drivers included.)
You guys have a great room here! Please...Just keep buying this stuff to keep the Japanese suits from relocating our vintage collective toys to the other side of the planet.
I'm done for now
Steve
PS PHOTO: Steve's the bass hiding behind a wall of Sunn
