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Anybody familiar with the Altec 7180A...also known as EV AP2800?
Just scored one of these at a very reasonable price. Has a bit of a QSC look to it...possibly re-badged for Altec and EV.
Will try it myself when I can hook up some speakers that can handle a 400+W amp. At the moment, I have 755As on line...can't risk it.
Any info appreciated.
Joe Roberts
http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/STA...ltec/7180A.pdf
here's a link to the manual...
Thanks...have the manual and will have the amp in hand tonight.
Was more curious about comments on musical quality for home use.
I'm not much of a big SS amp guy. In fact, I am way more likely to run 4.37W tubes than 437W!
Joe
Is this a US made amp, or Korean?
The newer EV's are German (Dynacord) but have seen some Korean ones. It definitely isn't a QSC. Although some Altec/EV amps are similar in circuitry, am almost certain QSC never OEM'ed them anything.
Define "newer"......... since we're talking an Altec label, it goes back to the late 90's at least....... That's pre-Dynacord and EV being under the same ownership isn't it? I know the Altec mixer/amps (17xx, I think) that is commonly seen with 9444X's are Korean. Maybe those are earlier 90's or late 80? The Korean Altec stuff is what made me think this EV/Altec amp may be Korean sourced, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Guy
At least as far back as 98. My guess it's German, doesn't look Korean to me.
whitebroncoii could tell us, haven't seen him lately.
seems that 'a sort of irony' is present ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Audio_by_Goodwill
I'm missing it........ what's ironic?Quote:
Originally Posted by tomt
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Originally Posted by Geekstar
a good reason the have some old bose speakers
around the house.
'first test' for untried amps, or other experiments.
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Ironic that I started this thread and I was in Korea while the discussion continued. Got back last night.Quote:
seems that 'a sort of irony' is present ...
The amp was made in USA c. 1996. Quite solidly put together. I fired it up on a "disposable" pair of JBL bookshelf speakers I found at a thrift shop for $15.
The amp sounded "good" but perhaps not what I would want for hi-fi compared to say my 300B amp. I'll bet it sure can play loud though.
I see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geekstar
Comparing a solid state commercial amp with a 300B tube amp seems like comparing apples and fish to me........ maybe not, as I don't know a whole lot about tubes.Quote:
The amp sounded "good" but perhaps not what I would want for hi-fi compared to say my 300B amp. I'll bet it sure can play loud though.
Yeah, pretty much apples to fish. The big amp seemed less detailed, more electronic sounding, much more colored....but this is a very clean and detailed "sophisticated" tube amp. I can imagine some mediocre vintage tube amps sounding less detailed and more colored than the 500W Altec.
The thing that scared me is that the Altec sounded like it could blow the cones right out of the JBL bookshelf speakers on a loud transient, as it most certainly could if I cranked it up.
I have always run Altec horns with tubes for domestic use but there is a group of Altec fans in Japan who love to use big Altec SS amps on VOTs and similar. I saw a Japanese blog where a guy carefully restored a set of 210 cabs then bought a set of huge Altec amps that had stickers on them from the motor speedway they were surplussed out of! Dang, that must be loud!