BoydB - are you sure you have big enough speakers? How many families sub rent from you for living space? :CAT:
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BoydB - are you sure you have big enough speakers? How many families sub rent from you for living space? :CAT:
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just picked up an adcom gfa 5800... a nelson pass design with the first 20 watts, class a amplification. 250/ channel at 8 ohms. thinking i might try it on my mids. 515b loaded 210 cabs.. is this a good idea? i really dont know much about amps. i am currently running anniversary series altec amps
Crown amps NOT being hi-fi...
Crown use to make their Studio Reference amp (don't know if they still do)..But when it came out it was getting rave reviews by many as being the BEST Solid-State Amp you could buy...no matter what the cost...And at the time they were competing with amps costing 3-5 times as much.
I've always liked the Crown sound....Super Clean...Very wide dynamic range....Great for playing Hard-Rock or Mozart. Playing classical music on with my Crown PL-4 and my Altec 15's was about as good as it gets...Nothing I ever heard could top it...I really hated removing the Pl-4 when I got home theater...But didn't have the room for another amp and pre-amp along with my PL-4. I also have problem with the right channel which I need to get fixed...Still want to keep the amp....I might have a room someday where I can hook it up with a new set of speakers (probably home built variation of the 15's or maybe even the 604's.
Don't remember ever hearing Crown on VOTT. Hafler, yes. And it's pretty darn good.
Not my favorite, but real good.
The best I've ever heard is McIntosh :Nodding:
Crown with Altec's is probably the common and popular setup. If a theater wasn't using Altec amps they were using Crowns. Almost every recording studio I ever went to all used Crown amps with Altec or JBL monitors. Not only did Crown amps sound good..they were built like tanks...Quote:
Originally Posted by Panomaniac
So I probably have heard the combo, just didn't know it.
Do you know why the Crown amps (and tape decks) were built like tanks?
I have to admit the minuscule 1.5 WPC of the single ended 45 amp really outshines anything else so far. However, I do happen to have a restored set of Mc 75's lying around that I could hook up just to see what they sound like.
Don't think I'm going to need all that power though....:eek:
By 'families' do you mean 'front loaded', 'rear loaded' etc? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Panomaniac
Unfortunately in recent years my horn hobby has been severely dampened (!) by the increasing care required by two elderly parents.
That's true. Each could serve as a two room apartment. ;)