Re: Happy St Patrick's Day, Boss!

Iain Churches wrote:

> "Arny Krueger"  wrote
> > "Iain Churches"  wrote
> >> "Eeyore"  wrote
> >>
> >>> For some bizarre reason I seem to have ended up being a
> >>> transformer winder more than I might care for.
> >>
> >> Graham. That's a craft which earns you considerable
> >> Brownie points.
> >>
> >> If the amp had been HIWATT I would have been
> >> *really* impressed:-)
> >
> > Anklebiter p***** judgement on real engineer. How Usenet! :-(
>
> Do you know the HIWATT amp, and its Dave
> Gilmour pedigree Arny? Have you ever seen one?
> Have you ever heard one? Have you ever played
> one?  No of course not. How Arny:-)))

To be fair, Hiwatts were  nothing special ! Just another guitar
amplifier with 4 EL34s and a pretty 'stock' circuit.

Now, I WAS impressed by some late Sound City 'touring amps'. These had 6
EL34s and a fairly high HT around 700V IIRC. I swear I saw 300 + W
'peaks' out of them.

I modded quite a few of them for the band 'Argent' since as supplied
their sensitivity was unusually low.

Nicely built with the chassis mounted on shock absorbing mounts. The
only other amps I saw with build quality that high were Oranges. They
even had individual bias trim pots.


Graham