Quote Originally Posted by MikeInNH View Post
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...
When Crown brought out the DC-300 in '68 or so it was not advertised as pro- or home-specific; it was just a high fidelity "laboratory amplifier" as the owner's manual stated. In the day there wasn't much market separation between pro- and home-audio. There was just what was considered good gear.Look in the links at 1950's Altec A-7 literature.
For example, The Grateful Dead used Mac maps, first tube then later SS, in their stage kit. Google old Dead photo's and you'll see.
Jonny A.