Hello to all,
I'm a new member and this is my first thread...
Does anyone have any information on the Dunlap-Clarke Dreadnaught 500 power/amp? The only info I have on this model is that it was made in the U.S.A. circa 78, it was imported to England by Exposure Electronics before they made their own amplification. I believe it delivers about 600watts R.M.S. per channel into a 2ohm load and that's all the info I have on the unit.
Can anyone enlighten me?
Regards
Raymond.
I'm a new member and this is my first thread...
Does anyone have any information on the Dunlap-Clarke Dreadnaught 500 power/amp? The only info I have on this model is that it was made in the U.S.A. circa 78, it was imported to England by Exposure Electronics before they made their own amplification. I believe it delivers about 600watts R.M.S. per channel into a 2ohm load and that's all the info I have on the unit.
Can anyone enlighten me?
Regards
Raymond.
Well, it's been about 28 years, but I had occasion to peer inside one, and it seemed to be a conventional push-pull AB follower with a really big output stage. It recall that it had MJ802 and MH4502's (I could be mistaken) which were the biggest BJT's you could get back then and some serious fans.
I subsequently had a nice conversation with the designer (Ron Dunlap?) at a show. A very smart, nice guy, who by then had quit the business for other pursuits.
Probably not even Jam has schematics for this, but it was a simple enough circuit that you could reverse engineer it or otherwise service it if you had to.
I subsequently had a nice conversation with the designer (Ron Dunlap?) at a show. A very smart, nice guy, who by then had quit the business for other pursuits.
Probably not even Jam has schematics for this, but it was a simple enough circuit that you could reverse engineer it or otherwise service it if you had to.
Thank you Nelson,DJK and Jam for your positive response.
I bought the amplifier here in England together with the matching pre-amp, the power amp sounds a lot better than some of the well respected designs..... I use it with a Naim 42.5 pre/amp at the moment and it sounds very detailed and informative. I think that the power caps will need replacing as they are the original ones. I don't use the matching pre/amp as it sounds very constricted. My speakers are Linn Isobariks so I opted for an amplifier that will deliver a fairly large output into a low impedance load "I think the Linn's drop to 2ohm.
Thanks again.
Regards to you all.
Raymond.
I bought the amplifier here in England together with the matching pre-amp, the power amp sounds a lot better than some of the well respected designs..... I use it with a Naim 42.5 pre/amp at the moment and it sounds very detailed and informative. I think that the power caps will need replacing as they are the original ones. I don't use the matching pre/amp as it sounds very constricted. My speakers are Linn Isobariks so I opted for an amplifier that will deliver a fairly large output into a low impedance load "I think the Linn's drop to 2ohm.
Thanks again.
Regards to you all.
Raymond.
Re: Re: Re: Dunlap -Clarke Dreadnaught 500 Power/ amp.
The Frugal-phile(tm) in me loves those peanuts. Did you ever have a NAIM power amp in your system?
At the time we had the DC we were also selling NAIM 160s & 250s. The NAIMs were a bit more refined, but didn't have the balls of the DC.
dave
Raymond said:
The Frugal-phile(tm) in me loves those peanuts. Did you ever have a NAIM power amp in your system?
At the time we had the DC we were also selling NAIM 160s & 250s. The NAIMs were a bit more refined, but didn't have the balls of the DC.
dave
Dunlap Clarke 1000 schematic
While going thru a box of old stuff, I found a schematic
for the D/C 1000, Also, the Bose 500, the Infinity
Hybrid, and the Delta Concept one guitar amp.
They are blue-print size papers, not easy to scan.
I'll work on it.
JJT
www.jtashjian.com
While going thru a box of old stuff, I found a schematic
for the D/C 1000, Also, the Bose 500, the Infinity
Hybrid, and the Delta Concept one guitar amp.
They are blue-print size papers, not easy to scan.
I'll work on it.
JJT
www.jtashjian.com
Dunlop Clarke "Dreadnaut" still cranking!
I am new to this forum usually stay on AVS but I have a DC "dreaudnaut"
I think it's the 250, I had new caps put in it & it plays really nice, sounds like a Cyrus to me very musical. I'm ready to let it go & I saw the conversation & thought I'd say hello
I am new to this forum usually stay on AVS but I have a DC "dreaudnaut"
I think it's the 250, I had new caps put in it & it plays really nice, sounds like a Cyrus to me very musical. I'm ready to let it go & I saw the conversation & thought I'd say hello