Your Old Amplifiers

[S.C]

As every active board members know Brain put up a grp buy for the NIGC PCB Kit and I will have a nicer GC soon. However, how many of you have an older amp lay around the table with dirt on the surface? For me, I do have an ugly IGC...... Now I want to ask you guys what will you do about it?

1. Stripe it down and improve it
2. Leave it alone
3. Make 2 additional channels with the old parts in your better amp, then it will become a 4 channels(In my case, it will be NIGC +IGC.... I know it won't blance.)
4. Make the old amp's part for some other use ( Can I possiblly make an IGC Sub amp?) [ 2.1 I'm dreaming....]
5. Make it a good gift

What will you do ?

P.S: If I get more PCB I will definatly do no 3 hehe

[Nuuk]

Good question S.C.

I have a pair of modified Arcam A60 amps which I put a lot of time and money into. I don't know if I would get what they are worth by selling them and my friends would want a Gainclone now anyway.

I could use some of the parts (the traffos will do for Gainclones) but breaking up projects that I spent so much time and effort on seems wrong, and a waste of very good amps.

So at the moment they are redundant which is a kind of a waste too but I would guess that since the Gainclone got popular, there are quite a few people in similar circumstances.

[uvodee]

Originally posted by Nuuk

So at the moment they are redundant which is a kind of a waste too but I would guess that since the Gainclone got popular, there are quite a few people in similar circumstances.

Although I have fun building gc's and have done so quite a few times, even sold a couple fo them, I would NEVER, NEVER consider my OLD amp (very old) redundant or wastelike..... quad 33/303 is an little ANIMAL! and frankly still sounds better than anything else I have heard in a long (very) long time!

As I said I love listening to my latest gc ( and hopefully even more to the kit i ordered in the groupbuy) but I can hear the difference.
It is only with certain types of music (accoustic guitar etc) that the sound becomes slightly compareable!

that is ofcourse my opinion!

J-P

[Nuuk]

The difference is quite marginal with the A60's but what I like with the GC is the detail retrieval that enables me to hear things I didn't hear with the A60's.

[lgreen]

Good question. If you had this laying around:

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showt...517#post297517

(ugly amps thread, more pics)




What would you do with it? Its just too damn ugly! And way too big and heavy to do anything with. Guess I could take the parts off it, but then what to do with the kludgey case?

[S.C]

Go make yourself an Alpha -X in the huge case or some other beast out there.