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    Posted: 09 May 2012 at 4:10pm
Hi Folks, first post here, been lurking for a while.
Was after any info on an amp I recently acquired, can't find anything out on the net, mate who I got it off also has no idea.
It's currently running my Turbosound Impact's, was using an Austin Armstrong 409c until last week  which was a beast.

Anyway the amp is a Zoffmusic Comet, not had the lid off for a peak as yet, but it's pretty heavy,made in Germany.
Has xlr ins and outs jack in and binding post outs, also has a ground lift switch



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There certainly isn't a lot of info out there but google image pulls out plenty of other similar amps and also an internals pic.

Does look pretty old but solid.
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Just took off one of the side panels, for a sneaky peek, 2  transformers 1 per side, 2 silver caps, then a central cooling shaft, will get it on the bench over the weekend, give it a proper clean out, don't think this has been done for quite some time.
Find it quite dominant in the mid / high region, much more so that the 409c, thinking this is between 3 and 400 per side, the speakers are 16 ohms, which does not help
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Is it my imagination, what's up with the indicators? I hope it's just the angle of the shot but it looks like one side is in protect to me!
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Just the flash from the camera, amp was not turned on, switches would be illuminated if it were Smile
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looks cool
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Yeah looks like it's pretty well put together, it's a full on strip down job rather than just popping the lid, and it's only on loan while I decide if I want it or another one my mate has, so if I bend it I mend it.
Not really had much chance to give it a good blasting yet, neighbour has been home and still running one of the Turbo's in as it's got a new cone, so taking it steady yet
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Originally posted by Mrd999 Mrd999 wrote:

Just took off one of the side panels, for a sneaky peek, 2  transformers 1 per side, 2 silver caps, then a central cooling shaft, will get it on the bench over the weekend, give it a proper clean out, don't think this has been done for quite some time.
Find it quite dominant in the mid / high region, much more so that the 409c, thinking this is between 3 and 400 per side, the speakers are 16 ohms, which does not help

600 watts per channel @4ohms
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I'm absolutely loving those handles - so functional, almost industrial - very germanic!
 
Nice find, and from what Col's just posted, a pretty darn useful piece of kit because that'll be 600wpc of good old fashioned RMS watts, none of your PMPO/programme/fantasy stardust wattage, just good old fashioned grunt!
 
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I'm absolutely loving those handles - so functional, almost industrial - very germanic!
And very handy as it's pretty heavy

Yeah I love it, almost ww2 style, and that is quite some poke, Impacts only rated at 125 wrms 215 prog 315 peak, but they are 16 ohms

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Originally posted by Mrd999 Mrd999 wrote:

I'm absolutely loving those handles - so functional, almost industrial - very germanic!
And very handy as it's pretty heavy

Yeah I love it, almost ww2 style, and that is quite some poke, Impacts only rated at 125 wrms 215 prog 315 peak, but they are 16 ohms

The Austin Armstrong's not a light weight either for it's age, I think the 409c is about 450 per channel also @4ohms nice amps too had a few myself and really liked them, although some would disagree as they did have some reliability issues if abused.
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Learned something else then, thought the Austin was 400 per side, made in Cambridge apparently .
Did have a fault with my phono to xlr lead , was only really driving 1 channel, not sure how,as still had sound out of both speakers, but eq was showing right chan and not left on the output, could potentially be a fault with the Behringer deq1024 , have another bit of kit from them that needs re booting as lose a channel . Now the zoff is running at full whack, it's a monster.
I am assuming that running 16 ohm speakers will reduce the 600w to about 200w, or am I completely wrong in that assumption ?
Thinking of going down to 8 ohm drivers

Oh and this is the guts of the Austin




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