Yorkville AP6040 amps for sub
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Topic: Yorkville AP6040 amps for sub
Posted By: levyte357
Subject: Yorkville AP6040 amps for sub
Date Posted: 27 November 2007 at 2:52pm
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Anyone in UK used these. Heard conflicting stories, but many people like them
Yorkville: AP
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Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 27 November 2007 at 5:57pm
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Looks like they cant be bridged??? ------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |
Posted By: doober
Date Posted: 27 November 2007 at 6:18pm
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Do you know of anywhere in the UK that sells them? Last time I looked I couldn't find any Yorkville dealers. ------------- Blahblahblah |
Posted By: shagnasty
Date Posted: 27 November 2007 at 9:08pm
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No 2 ohm drive so if it did bridge (you could try with a phase changer) it would only drive 8ohm in bridge anyway...
May use dual bridged modules to get that kinda power outta 30Kgs anyway!!!
(probably best to check with ameter BEFORE you try the pahse changer trick!!!)
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Posted By: Jhodas
Date Posted: 27 November 2007 at 10:09pm
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I can't get to their website...
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Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 28 November 2007 at 12:32am
Why would you want to bridge this ? It can do 2kwpc@ 4ohms, thats 2x 8ohm 18's per channel @ approx 1kw each. Job done. ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
tweeter box wrote:Posted By: Tekasis
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 8:03pm
Only found one user on here who rates them!.
http://www.speakerplans.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8918&PN=3 - http://www.speakerplans.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8918&PN=3
Any more ?
http://www.yorkville.com/products.asp?id=19&cat=8&type=30 - http://www.yorkville.com/products.asp?id=19&cat=8&type=30
Check out their service manual...
http://www.yorkville.com/downloads/servman/smap6040.pdf - http://www.yorkville.com/downloads/servman/smap6040.pdf
Don't seem like many manufactures supply this type of detailed info!!!
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Posted By: sKs01
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 8:19pm
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people seem to nod their head towards yorkville in general on psw for this sort of aplication, as above i didnt know their were any uk dealers?
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Posted By: doober
Date Posted: 27 July 2008 at 8:57pm
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I emailed the uk distributor http://mirep.co.uk/ - http://mirep.co.uk/ to try and get a price and try a demo unit, but never got a reply.
I take Dave Cordingly's opinion highly, I used to do parties with him years ago, he was never happy with the bass until eyeballs were wobbling and people were struggling to breathe. ------------- Blahblahblah |
Posted By: powerplant
Date Posted: 08 March 2012 at 7:22am
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Hello guys , looks like I am about to burst yorkville bag, the Ap 6040 is no miracle amp , just like crest 8001, qsc mx3000a , or EV p3000 operating at 2 ohm (also the ap 6020).
That is, 1400 watts, - 1600 watts , depending on either 20 - 20 hz @ 0.05 thd rating or 1 khz @ 1% thd Rating. All the amps are of the same class weighing in at 67 pounds same topology , Only way AP6040 can achieve the claimed 2000 watts of clean power is by driving only one channel at 4 ohms. These 4 ohm limit amps just run out of breath ( headroom) . The ap 6040 may sound just like the RMX 5050 or worst @ 4 ohms. bink's amp shoot out results were accurate. 1400 watts a 20 hz . just like crest 8001 2 ohm specs and 1700 watts @ 1 khz just like qsc mx3000 . therefore at clean real world power the ap 6040 is more like 1700 watts both channels driven , ( 3400 watts amp) . Ap 4040 follows the similar situation. Is similar to crown 2400 , and crest ca 9 . 2000 watts total real world clean power. Also AP 3400 . AB Test sounded same .
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Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 08 March 2012 at 9:34am
Since start of this thread, many amps have become available in UK that would smoke the Yorkville, @ 4 ohms stereo. Was told years ago they are a nightmare to service/repair, lost interest there and then. ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
Posted By: MessyM2k8
Date Posted: 08 March 2012 at 10:12am
| S DeXter on here had one. They are a nightmare to repair. |
Posted By: Earplug
Date Posted: 08 March 2012 at 10:35am
Yes. http://forum.speakerplans.com/help-needed-hk-vc-2400-yorkville-ap4040_topic61762_post615343.html?KW=yorkville#615343" rel="nofollow - http://forum.speakerplans.com/help-needed-hk-vc-2400-yorkville-ap4040_topic61762_post615343.html?KW=yorkville#615343 ------------- Earplugs Are For Wimps! |
Posted By: powerplant
Date Posted: 08 March 2012 at 12:32pm
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Without a doubt, the Ap series Power Amps are very reliable and durable with straight forward analog circuitry. However, here in trinidad the semiconductor market has lost its way totally in inferior chinese replacement parts and compounded by the nonavailability of precision specialized parts making proper restoration impossible. I have one ap 6040 that i purchased broken with the inention to restore as a project but have not done so in consequence of the above . Customer support also leaves much to be desired. and finally, the general cost of yorkville amps.
To replace the two circuit boards Yorkville charging $900 us . I can buy a used PL 6.0 , B stock crest CC5500, Peavey cs 4080 , crown ma3600 , .
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Posted By: kedwardsleisure
Date Posted: 08 March 2012 at 7:53pm
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Yorkville stuff built like brick toilets and very comprehensive service manuals. In the uk they are sold under the HK Audio brand which is distributed by John Hornby Skewes. ------------- Kevin North Staffordshire |
Posted By: C-Audiofreak
Date Posted: 08 January 2016 at 8:46am
| If the yorkville amps are only available in the uk under an HK badge how come a few yorkville badged amps crop up on the second hand market ? Are these imported by individuals? I've thought about importing a couple from the states but get them converted to 240v once here as I'm told the transformers have dual tapped transformer so the primary side to 240 instead of 110 would be a simple procedure I just want an AP6040 and another 2020 if I can get them |
Posted By: bass*en*mass
Date Posted: 08 January 2016 at 4:16pm
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these come up often on European main continent.. just have a look around.. Shipping aint that bad normally. |
Posted By: C-Audiofreak
Date Posted: 08 January 2016 at 4:22pm
| Do you mean Germany etc? |
Posted By: bass*en*mass
Date Posted: 08 January 2016 at 4:34pm
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for example.. shipping from Germany to uk up to 45kg is only 25€.. |
Posted By: shagnasty
Date Posted: 08 January 2016 at 4:43pm
If you do that get the fans checked, if they are DC, you are fine, but if they are AC powered, swap them, a US AC will will run slower in the UK (60Hz vs 50Hz) and may not be able to cool the amp properly...
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Posted By: kedwardsleisure
Date Posted: 09 January 2016 at 11:55am
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If you want to import themn you'd be better getting them from a european source as they'll be the correct voltage and there wont be a hefty import duty. I'm pretty sure they use DC variable speed fans...they're not that backward! According to Yorkville there's a trade distributor in Le Bourget France called Major Audio. And I didnt say they were ONLY available as HK in the UK..any dealer is free to import stuff from wherever they want. My post was 5 years ago and I don't even know if HK still use Yorkville. edit: just checked with HK and yes they still do them, called the VX series.  ------------- Kevin North Staffordshire |
Posted By: 70,s hero
Date Posted: 09 January 2016 at 6:02pm
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I have 4 H.K / Yorkville amps the 2400's , class A/B , quite happy with them, repaired a power supply on one, parts avaliable in U.K. Heavy old school amp ------------- Top banana |
Posted By: C-Audiofreak
Date Posted: 09 January 2016 at 6:58pm
| Hi mate I wasn't questioning what you said I was just saying they are very few and far between secondhand in the uk and only ever seem to find the HK vx series of amp which are rebadged ap series yorkville amps |
Posted By: kedwardsleisure
Date Posted: 12 January 2016 at 7:26pm
 Those AP / VX are a bit of a tight packed amp but the quality is fantastic. Shame they arent a more popular brand here as I'm sure they'd be appreciated ------------- Kevin North Staffordshire |
Posted By: C-Audiofreak
Date Posted: 12 January 2016 at 8:14pm
| The ap6040 that I'm after are 3u so prob not as tight packed as the AP4040 |
Posted By: ychole audio
Date Posted: 18 January 2016 at 10:06pm
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How is the Yorkville ap6040 compared to Crown Macro-tech 5002vz? Same power on paper.. ------------- I am ZERIEL'S dad!!! |
Posted By: C-Audiofreak
Date Posted: 18 January 2016 at 10:43pm
| Around £300 more expensive ychole |
Posted By: ychole audio
Date Posted: 18 January 2016 at 10:45pm
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Posted By: C-Audiofreak
Date Posted: 18 January 2016 at 10:48pm
| Prob I have not heard a 6040 but the 4040 sounds nice and never had the luxury of hearing the crown so can't pass comment the crown though is 2ohm capable whereas thi yorkville isn't |
Posted By: Bigbass77
Date Posted: 11 September 2016 at 4:35am
| I got one run 4 cerwin vega psx18b home use mainly deep deep bass can talk over it but jiggles your insides got eq n limiter |
Posted By: White Noise
Date Posted: 11 September 2016 at 10:28am
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We've had some ap6040's for a few years, great amps for the money ! used them mainly for sub and kick duty. will power four pd1850's, XB18's or pd156's pretty well I think Dave (Snafu sound system) imported them for his rig some years back... |