I had this amp in the late 1960s. I bought it cheap as it needed repair and most of the tubes had been pulled. The photo is of a reproduction that they started making due to tube amp popularity.
In today's world, if you went to buy it, it is a vintage gem and worth a fortune, but if you are trying to sell it, it is junk, and anyone interested is doing you a favor by taking it off your hands. IMO it is not junk and worth repairing if you can do it yourself.
McIntosh was a very good name in amplifiers. I had two sets of Kardon citations (amp & preamp) which I sold. Originally I was going to refurbish them, I decided I was getting too old too many other things demanding my time. Your all girl surf band did you make any recordings, perform locally only? You still play anymore? To me tube systems were the best sounding.
I probably could fix it, but really have a lack of interest in doing so. It's part of getting old, lol.
Mine look very close to that too. I also had a Pentron which could be used as a deck or it had a built-in 10w stereo amp and speakers. It could be set to record in 2 or 4 track settings.
No recordings other than reel to reel tapes that are long extinct. And just performed a few times with the surf music band while visiting my great aunt in California. I played with blues bands after that on and off. The only big set was at the Portland Riverfront Blues Festival. Yes, I still play just for myself and nylon-string acoustic only. I tried to do a recital in fall 2020 and really bombed. My hands are very bad and I don't practice but a few hours a week. Yes, tube amp for guitars will never be topped IMO.
My older brother had a Sears reel-to-reel. It's the perfect audio medium. The TASCAM I used was a 4 track that was part of the small recording studio I helped a friend build. Like you, my friend would lay down a metronome track, then the drum track, then the bass guitar track, then rhythm guitar and maybe keyboard. We would have to mix some down to a cassette to free up a track then record it all back. We put it all on a cassette tape that he took to the Holiday Inn lounges where he played them as backup as he sang and sometimes played lead guitar. It was a lot of fun. He ended up quitting the music business and sold AMWAY. So ended our friendship.
I had a Teac for a while but went to a Sony reel to reel. I had a Magnacord amp and reel deck that I got from a radio station and it was great but mono. I sold it with the other stuff about 2000. I had resurfaced the rubber drive wheel so it ran slightly slow. Hard to tell and the guy that bought it was also a machinist and able to make a new wheel. He also bought all my old Gates equipment, most of my mics, and rents it out to movie production companies since he lives in Hollywood. I guess he has a warehouse full of old audio equipment that he restores and rents out. I saw photos of all his jukeboxes and drooled for days hahaha!
Harmon Kardon made a great tube amp. I had one for many years that I used in my shop/studio. It was all open because I never had a cover for it. I sold it because some guy offered me an outrageous price for it.
Heh, interesting. I got sudden, severe arthritis in both wrists in April. I had to close my business and retire. It has since gone mostly from my wrists and into my hands -- although it seems to have stabilized. At first it didn't affect my playing, but in the past couple of months it has. In June I sold all my instruments except a Takamine acoustic/electric guitar. I still try to play it although certain (left hand) positions really hurt. Am I in "The Golden Years" yet?
As I bet a lot of you know, if you're trying to figure out what some musician is doing: Record it at 7.5 IPS then play it back on 3.75 IPS. It takes getting used to, but at least you don't have to re-tune -- it will drop by exactly one octave.
Interesting, the decrease in speed will also decrease to Fidelity (frequency range), it sounds very interesting.
Yes, even a higher note on a guitar will sound like something played on a bass. As I said, it takes getting used to. Not sure how the physics works out, but an exact doubling or halving in playback speed will only change the octave, not the tuning. I've not kept up, but I think there is a way with modern digital tech where you can change the speed but keep the playback frequency the same.