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Roman
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How do I prevent damaging my JBL 2245H's with too much power?
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Now that is lovely. Just out of curiosity,i see you have added a fan,what is approx. life expectancy of the valves in something like this? |
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Two fans actually the way these are run maybe 10years
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flinnt45
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Hi Roman choices re speakers i cannot advise
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valve head777
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Thanks. I wonder if the amp was built by a man called John Chambers. Several were built a few years ago. He's not the only builder tho. Edited by valve head777 - 24 February 2018 at 3:15pm |
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You mean the amp in the picture ?
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valve head777
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No, I know that's your beauty.....
John built some 1k mono blocks a number of years ago, can see pic's on the web, using 813's afaik. Edit.... Got valve number wrong Edited by valve head777 - 24 February 2018 at 4:05pm |
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When it arrived in New Zealand. Apparently it didn't work. It took a bit of rebuilding as I understand it. The buyer was disappointed. So the builder isn't respected.
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valve head777
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Not Mr Champs then, because he is respected. Was the designer for some guitar amps dating from the 60's. Maybe, if you are interested in valve amplifiers, Google John Chambers.
Why get one from England if builder available from NZ? Valve amps tend to need maintenance input to keep them running sweet. If the amp your mate bought was fundamentally flawed via design, then yeah, resect lost. Sorry to hear of your disappointment. As said by others, valves need dedication. You could get an equally vintage sound via old design MOSFET amps. Mofets also have some ofthe characteristics of valves. I also own Mr Eddie early mono block mosfet amps, and when pushed sound fantastic. Did you check the track I was on about earlier?? |
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Roman
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You mean John Holt's ali baba? Yes
Would I compromise sound quality by not using a reggae pre amp? I want to plug everything into an Allen and Heath Mix Wizard 16 channel mixer. I would utilise fancy tube phone pre's outputting line level to the mixer. The mixer would feed a crossover and the 4 way crossover over come back into 4 mixer channels that wouldn't be assigned to the master bus feeding the crossover, thus avoiding feedback. But outputting directly to the amps. Clever eh! Then I would have heaps of channels for mic's, effects and 8 track multi track audio for dubs like Mad Professor does. And of course I could control the crossover levels from the faders. Or maybe this is unnecessary if I just adjust crossover levels on the crossover? I wouldn't want to accidentally press the 'master bus' assign switches on the crossover channels creating a feedback loop.
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Can be done that way, just depends on your own preference.
sometimes known as a ghetto pre. Nobody has to have a reggae pre-amp |
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Great replys , info and reasonings
Superb!!! thanks all
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