BackBurner Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Check out this monster rig on E-bay right now . Huge !!! Look at the iron and tubes in this beast !! This rig could support a "fleet " of klipschorns . lol ALL ABOARD THE SS KLIPSCHSTER !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klipsch RF7 Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 That looks like freakin mainframe computer!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackBurner Posted March 15, 2004 Author Share Posted March 15, 2004 Doubles as a welder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Songer Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 200 watts per channel of triode power! McIntosh actually made a 350-watt version of these too. Aside to "Dead Heads"-- the Dead used these as PA amps in the late 1960's/early 1970's. I have never heard them used as Hi-Fi amps but have been told they are really something . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 ---------------- On 3/15/2004 11:43:56 AM Allan Songer wrote: 200 watts per channel of triode power! McIntosh actually made a 350-watt version of these too. Aside to "Dead Heads"-- the Dead used these as PA amps in the late 1960's/early 1970's. I have never heard them used as Hi-Fi amps but have been told they are really something . . . . ---------------- Allan, Was that what the Dead used when they had the "Wall of Sound?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klipsch RF7 Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Imagine trying to bias those bad boys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheltie dave Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 This is probably one of my buddies setups. He got five complete dual rigs when the shipyard in Maine closed out the tube powered ultrasonic sinks and started running a SS setup. He got these for a song. One bank still had the original tubes from 1961 in them, due to Macs being set up to loaf at about 60% of their output capability with these bad boys. When I was in Kittery back in 1985, the primary set had not been turned off for 14 years! The shipyard up there is chock full of oddball history. Our boat had a little tradition that every newbie had to spend a night sleeping in the penetentiary cell Aaron Burr was held pending trial after he killed Adams? in a pistol duel. They had some real nice 10 x 10 mahogany timbers in that building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Songer Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 I remember saying SOMETHING a couple of days ago about tubes in McIntosh amps lasting FOREVER. 14 years of continuous use it pretty damn impresssive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackBurner Posted March 15, 2004 Author Share Posted March 15, 2004 The build quality must be amazing to last that long , i'll bet they could last another lifetime in a mild home audio setting. No doubt they'd be a conversation starter. I could hear it now " OH !! be carefull kids those look dangerous " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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