HH V800 (Brand New)
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Topic: HH V800 (Brand New)
Posted By: Dub Specialist
Subject: HH V800 (Brand New)
Date Posted: 22 March 2013 at 1:24am
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hiya is this true apprantly thay still build brand new ones? are thay identical build to the Original? anyone know what is the price of these are? might be worth getting one at least thay will last for the next 30/40 years for reliability  ive emailed about 5 dealers with no repley at all  .... http://www.hhelectronics.com/products/power-amplifiers/classic" rel="nofollow - http://www.hhelectronics.com/products/power-amplifiers/classic thank you.!
------------- treat all creation with respect. For music is sound...sound is vibration...vibration is energy... and energy begets life. Therein lies my passion! MUSIC IS LIFE 
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Posted By: B.P.Sound
Date Posted: 22 March 2013 at 6:46am
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Like the way the amp is shown running into 'CLIP'........ Can't really see the point in a 400/side (800W into 4 Ohm Bridged) amp now-a-days....All be-it 'REAL power. Loved these amps back in the day. I Had loads of them. ------------- http://www.londoneventrentals.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/LondonEventRentals |
Posted By: colint
Date Posted: 22 March 2013 at 4:33pm
The guitar boy's love them but they don't need mega watt amps which is part of the reason they still hold a reasonable price second hand (especially in the states) ------------- Never criticise another man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Once you have, call him what you like, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes! |
B.P.Sound wrote:Posted By: burningbush
Date Posted: 22 March 2013 at 4:48pm
The scalar amp looks abit (if you are drunk) like a S500d. With power compression and damping I can see a use for 400w aside  .------------- music is the message |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 5:06pm
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Jay,i also mailed them (and phoned them) a few times about these,no answer at all.which is a shame. To answer your question,not sure if its built like the old original one,that had 16 TO3 HH-badged Hitachi k135/j50 mosfets,which of course,are no longer made. How long will it last? Until we get to look at one,who knows what is inside and how long it will last? ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: Dub Specialist
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 5:27pm
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Thanks for the repley Ian appreciated , Interesting! think ill give that a miss then  ------------- treat all creation with respect. For music is sound...sound is vibration...vibration is energy... and energy begets life. Therein lies my passion! MUSIC IS LIFE
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Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 6:41pm
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Yeah,like i say,it may well be fine,but until someone here manages to get hold of one,and have a look inside,and test and listen to it,we dont know. ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: Dub Specialist
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 11:43pm
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Hey Ian found this looks very close layout? not sure on the output devices but caps/transformer look the same, ovisly cant tell exactly need better pics ect.. http://www.hhelectronics.com/products/power-amplifiers/classic/36" rel="nofollow - http://www.hhelectronics.com/products/power-amplifiers/classic/36 thanks
 ------------- treat all creation with respect. For music is sound...sound is vibration...vibration is energy... and energy begets life. Therein lies my passion! MUSIC IS LIFE
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Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 8:38am
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Yes,at first glance it does look like the old v800 doesn't it? ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 8:56am
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Wonder what it sounds like,and how much it is? Despite looking,as i said above,i cant find a price,or anyone who stocks one. ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: colint
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 9:11am
I doubt if you ever will either, the fact a company produces a product for that amount of time (gotta be getting on for two years now) and no ones seen of heard one seem very suspicious to me, the fact the don't reply to emails would make me even more suspicious why would you make a product then not go out of your way to supply it? Personally I think they've just hashed up something for advertising let's face it the V800 was/is a pretty iconic amp and quite well know throughout the world. As you've already said until someone get's their hands on one we'll never know. ------------- Never criticise another man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Once you have, call him what you like, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes! |
Posted By: GEB
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 7:00pm
| Those pics on their site are not of a new model. It has xlr outputs for a start! |
Posted By: colint
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 7:24pm
Yes I thought that too the rear veiw is a bit of a give away suppose it could be in keeping with the "vintage" theme but it's also had the rear handles removed and has cliff component style jack sockets for the inputs where as the original V800 had red jack in's with a silver knurled nut. No doubt they took a good condition V800 and tried to make it look a little different. The other thing that's odd is if you look at the dealer network on the HH site out of all of them only one lists any HH stuff (but not the V800) Most of the other sites listed direct back to the HH site. ------------- Never criticise another man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Once you have, call him what you like, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes! |
Posted By: GEB
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 9:04pm
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Plus I can't see a made in China label! Where exactly does it say it's been re released?
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Posted By: GAZ.
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 9:14pm
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I dont think they are actually making new V800's. I think its more showing you what they used to make back in the day for those that dont already know! ------------- 100% Earth Moving Bass |
Posted By: colint
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 9:26pm
The problem there is it's listed in the products section of their site. The other thing is this lot never made the V800 back in the day, although this company is listed as formed in 1984 the people running it now only bought it a few years ago so as far as the public are concerned it has not only the HH name but also the heritage when in fact it's a relativity new company. The daft thing is if they were to market the V800 in the USA they would probebly sell cart loads of them to Guitar players as they seem to be very valued out there ------------- Never criticise another man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Once you have, call him what you like, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes! |
Posted By: GAZ.
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 9:40pm
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Yeah it should be in the history section rather than the products section. ------------- 100% Earth Moving Bass |
Posted By: Dub Specialist
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 11:18pm
 ------------- treat all creation with respect. For music is sound...sound is vibration...vibration is energy... and energy begets life. Therein lies my passion! MUSIC IS LIFE
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Posted By: GAZ.
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 11:53pm
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XLR's haven't been used as speaker connectors for years. Theres no way they'd be manufacturing a new product with obsolete speaker connectors. Even if they were making V800's again they would have updated to speakon. ------------- 100% Earth Moving Bass |
Posted By: GEB
Date Posted: 25 March 2013 at 9:16am
Innit. That was my point I made earlier. Not sure what Dub is on about? |
Posted By: Parkend10
Date Posted: 25 March 2013 at 9:26pm
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There's probably enough new old stock parts in circulation to build a few "New" V800's but at what cost? A near mint V800 went for £380 on Ebay recently and fairly good condition ones go for around £140. If the transformer, FET's etc are OK, a bit of TLC and a few quid's worth of new components, they're good as new - probably run for another 30 years
How could a brand new re-issue unit ever be competitively priced and yet still as reliable as an original model?? China syndrome??? Interesting to note though, the V800 appeared on the new HH site very soon after a picture of one appeared on another site I know of Perhaps they're just testing the market. Drop by for a blether sometime Gavin. ------------- HH Concert Radial x 4 HH PRO 200 x 8 HH Concert Bass x 8 HH VX 1200PDC x 8 DBX Driverack, Behringer DCX2496, Behringer X32, HH Queensberry, HH MISCARA |
Posted By: burningbush
Date Posted: 26 March 2013 at 5:08pm
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Fit like? Any new purchases? ------------- music is the message |
Posted By: burningbush
Date Posted: 26 March 2013 at 5:13pm
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Do you want any V150Ls? ------------- music is the message |
Posted By: EmPro
Date Posted: 23 May 2024 at 9:24am
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V800-M900 (same amps by all means) will never be made again,the manufacturing cost at the same quality as old HH's is way to high for just 2x400w in a 4u 22kg monster,the Chinese people will do 2x400w in a 1U 0.5kg nowdays with a fraction of the cost! ------------- EmPro Audio |