Some rumble bumble

So I get a call one day back in September or August from Nolan, one of my partners in crime for thrifting. Well I'm sitting at work while he and his friend Philip are out doing their own thrifting. They find this awesome Rotel Preamp and Yamaha setup, so I tell them to hold it while I run over from work. Upon arriving I notice this little gem sitting on the floor with the grille on. It just looked like some cheap $20 subwoofer until I took the grille offf and googled the model. MK VX-7. It's a 50 watt 8" powered subwoofer with some very nice looking gold RCA plugs. It's missing the fuse holder cap but I figure it's an easy fix. I wheel this and all the other stuff with me out. Nolan takes this gem home for a month and does nothing with it!

Well a month passes and I ask for it back so I can work on it. Of course it doesn't power on. I search high and low for a fuse holder to no avail. I even purchase a replacement holder with cap. The old one is very well attached so I decide to open up the plate amp, and install the new fuse holder in place of the old one, but I did not affix it to the outside plate as it was not an easy removal. I put the appropriate fuse in and powered it on. It works! This thing moves a ridiculous amount of air. There's an odd whistling however, coming from the original fuse holder. I've got nothing to put on it so I fill the hole with liquid nails, and put another fuse in it to fill the void. Problem solved.

I plug this into my 2 channel system with my B&W DM2000 towers and let it rip. It's being fed a secondary RCA preout from my Rotel RC-972 preamp. The bass is tight and powerful. It certainly feels and sounds more than 50 watts. What a great find. Retail on this thing is somewhere in the $599 neighborhood, but MK is no longer in business. Still, for $5.98 this was one of the best finds to date. I have yet to decide whether I'm keeping it or not.

Ratings:

Price: $6
Status: Undecided
Condition: 3.75 Stars
Cost: 1 Star
Flippable: 5 Stars
Potential Income: 5 Stars