for you Linear Power people....

[jol50]

Saw this on another site guy says its good but I don't know. LP amps NIB. What a pile of stuff! Is in German.

http://www.pimpmysound.com/advanced_...inear+Power%22

[tsmith1315]

I wouldn't consider myself a "Linear Power People", but wow, what a pile of NIB old stuff. I'd like to have just one for the collection...

Looks like they might be able to give tomtomjr a run for the money...

[tomtomjr]

I only have a few Linear amps. Maybe 10 total... But, I sure would like to snag a bunch of these. Still thinking about it.

[jol50]

Sorry some people are pretty weird about them. I never saw them as super special when I put them in new, a good amp yes but mighty expensive and sometimes other amps worked better on highs. They do have some power for what they are rated at, compared to other amps of the day....and today. I have two 1002 right now think I will sell them to a friend after I try one just for fun, don't think they are large enough for what I want. Then again the pair might do better than the 4x85 I have in there now I better try it.

[jol50]

Looks like the big ones are gone all the sudden....

[0ldSch00lf00l]

Originally posted by jol50
Looks like the big ones are gone all the sudden....

Watch Ray have a whole slew of NIB Linear Power amps for sale in the up and coming weeks

[anatech]

Hi,
I used to do warranty service on Linear Power. They did deliver the power and worked off of some pretty high rails. Too bad they didn't sound as clean as they could have.

I wouldn't mind reusing the toroid for a build. That and maybe the case work. The rest isn't worth keeping. The amplifier output transistors were those horrible MJ15015 and MJ15016 types. When repairing one, I use MJ15022 and MJ15023 types. The newer On Semi ones might work out better too.

Anyway, they had a great power supply for use with a home amp type circuit. I think the medium power models ran at around +/- 45 VDC! With that you could build on heck of a great sounding amplifier. With a new build, you could also install a shield between the power supply and audio circuits.

Why do I mention this? Not too many amps ran higher supply voltages. I gave away a couple older MGT 2100s and miss them. Those were another great candidate for a new build. They already used what was really a home amp circuit in the car. For the time, they sounded better than anything else out there. +/- 33 VDC rails.

-Chris

[0ldSch00lf00l]

Compared to a Rockford Fosgate Power 351S, I prefer the sound my Linear Power 1502IQ delivered to my mids and highs. Three different people could tell there was a difference between the Linear Power and Rockford Fosgate. The fosgate seemed to add some tone to the highs making the mid-range sound more dull and lifeless.

When performing the test, I also tried a Soundstream Reference 700S on my mids and highs. It was pretty much a toss up between the Soundstream and the Linear Power with regards to quality on the mids/highs.

[tsmith1315]

0ldsch00l:

It was pretty much a toss up between the Soundstream and the Linear Power with regards to quality on the mids/highs.

Same experience here. I had a Zapco Z220, LP 2002, and a Soundstream D200II. I loaned them -one at a time- to a friend who was taking Dr Leach's audio classes at GA Tech. Powering a pair of well-filtered Pioneer C16xxxx's with Vifa 27mm domes, and alternately a pair of (IIRC) Audio Concepts AC-12's with a Leach "Q-correction" circuit (similar to the Linkwitz transform). He's a smart guy with a good ear for sound who's still doing DIY home audio some 15yrs later.

The system sounded very good, though the pioneers required serious notch filters.

End result:
The LP was a better midbass performer, but otherwise was pretty much a toss up. My affinity for Zapco products led me to keep the Z220 and trade the others off.

[jol50]

Yeah good old Ray, I have to send something to him too.

When I was installing LP new we ran SS amp on highs for high end systems. They were cleaner and brighter sounding. You could take a 2002 and a SS that size and everything above the mid sounded better on the SS, but the LP would go louder with more bass and slightly warmer sounding. SS was sort of cold sounding, but that was fine on highs. We used mostly LP and some RF on near anything high powered. Also sold pioneer and kenwood, they could not keep up in the power wars. Some of the larger kenwood worked well though for mid size amps...and the other day I had a new-ish silver and an old black kenwood, the output sections were about identical. They don't look that impressive inside either but they work...and run hot.

Thanks for the informative posts guys.

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