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John_Doe80004

(156 posts)
Sun Jun 5, 2016, 06:13 PM Jun 2016

My Completed Restoration Project [View all]

Wheatstone / Audioarts A-50 Broadcast Production mixing console Circa 1988
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m03llm36p61gvxu/AAAq7BKUny69XdU2jltKUCkQa?dl=0

someone tossed this board in the trash then someone else donated a parts board. the recipient board was in bad shape and the donor board even worse shape.

this is the results of me cleaning up the board and combining the two to make one good one.

i'm still amazed at what people will toss out these days.

the station at my high school had the same model board so i got to use these when they were brand spanking new back in the late 80's. this board is nearly 30 years old and still trucking along. i suspect these newer boards won't last even 10 years from now and are unrepairable. they are meant to be tossed when they stop working. they are light as a feather Chinese built digital junk. proof that newer isn't always better.

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My Completed Restoration Project [View all] John_Doe80004 Jun 2016 OP
There's no profit in building things to last.... lastlib Jun 2016 #1
in the early 90s NJCher Jun 2016 #2
I work in live audio reinforcement. Yonnie3 Jun 2016 #3
it will be in use at my part 15 low power station John_Doe80004 Jun 2016 #4
Nice Set Up Yonnie3 Jun 2016 #5
picked up that Yaesu John_Doe80004 Jun 2016 #6
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