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09-30-2010, 01:22 PM
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I'm looking for a rack mountable tube power amp specifically made for bass 300+W under $1500. I'm using a Marshall 100/100 all tube power section now, but would like to get something with more power for bass. I'm using an Bmax-T pre in front of it.
Thanks for your help.
-Mick
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09-30-2010, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Classickbass | Thanks... this is a head. I'd like to pick up a rackmountable power amp.
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09-30-2010, 02:47 PM
| | | | Ampeg made a 'power amp only' version of the SVT. A sextet of 6550s.
They don't come up too often, but there was one last year at Daddys Junky Music for 600 bucks.
They had listed it under the PA amps section. |
09-30-2010, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by adbass Ampeg made a 'power amp only' version of the SVT. A sextet of 6550s.
They don't come up too often, but there was one last year at Daddys Junky Music for 600 bucks.
They had listed it under the PA amps section. | Now that piques my interest! 6 6550's in an SVT power only configuration... do you know what the model number was/is?
And the Aggie has 8 6550's ... I'm sure that thing is crushing and sounds good! The Aggie sounds like it'd be out of my price range. Quote:
Originally Posted by Classickbass | Thanks... this is a head. I'd like to pick up a rackmountable power amp.
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Originally Posted by Adlerburg And the Aggie has 8 6550's ... I'm sure that thing is crushing and sounds good! The Aggie sounds like it'd be out of my price range. | It is a phenomenal amp. The Demeter also has eight 6550's. You should be able to get either of them used in your price range. |
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09-30-2010, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Adlerburg Thanks... this is a head. I'd like to pick up a rackmountable power amp. | Yeah but if you plugged your Bmax into its Effects Return jack you'd be bypassing the heads internal preamp/EQ and only using its tube poweramp section. A Mesa D-180, 400, 400+, SVT-II or SVT-IIpro could all be used like this, take up the same 4-rack space as their poweramp only variants, dont weigh much more, are usually much easier to locate and would also give you a built-in backup preamp in case you Bmax died, you wanted to blend/stack the 2 pre's together or someday you just wanted a different tone option.
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Originally Posted by RickenBoogie I think the Ampeg was called the SVT300. | Correct. |
09-30-2010, 08:17 PM
| | | | Or and SVT II Pro and don't use the preamp section; musch easier to find and not that much heavier |
09-30-2010, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Adlerburg And the Aggie has 8 6550's ... I'm sure that thing is crushing and sounds good! The Aggie sounds like it'd be out of my price range. | My Aggie DB728 crushes like a millstone. And it's within your price range: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showth...27#post9783227
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10-01-2010, 04:53 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Woodstock, NY | | | Between Aggie, Ampegs, Demeter, Boogies, Trace etc, I certainly have some great choices. Thanks to everyone for the help. My apologies if there was redundancy as a careful search unveiled a lot of previous info as well. Many choices and a lot to think about.
Thanks guys.
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