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Peavey Standard PA Series 260

powmetalbassist

powmetalbassist

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#1
So I picked up a Peavey Standard Series 260 today for $70 (just the head). I don't think I got ripped off, but It wasn't the greatest deal. Anyway I'm looking at getting cabs for it, but not sure what to get. If I'm reading the schematics right It is 130w per side at 4 ohms (260 watts for both hence the series name). Just trying to make sure I'm reading this right before I try to buy or hook up speakers to this thing.

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Additionally. wondering what year this came out and how I would date it. the 'Monitor' or Mark III version of this came out in 79' can't find a date for the 'Standard' PA/Mixer though.
 
#4
Are you sure it is not 130W, mono? I don't think it's stereo.

It looks an awful lot like a Peavey 260C, which is 130W mono @ 4ohms.

BTW, for comparison, the 260C schematic I have is dated 8/30/78, revised '86.

It also looks like it succeeded the Peavey Standard, this thing:
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#5
Yeah here is a pic of it serial number 4A-09023. I sent this info to Peavey yesterday, trying to figure out what I got.
 

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Are you asking me why I can't find the manual or why I would be working with such an outdated vintage piece of equipment? In answer to the first, I don't know why I can't nail down a manual. All the usual channels refer to the manual that supports the other version as I explained. Regarding the second, I picked the amp/mixer up at a pawn-shop I haunt regularly for less than seventy bucks and I gotta tell ya it's all that and a bag 'o chips. Nice clean punchy sound for the kind of old school protest material I do. So, got any ideas?
 
#13
No worries. Besides, you wouldn't use a "transformer" to convert 1/4 inch to xlr you'd use an adapter unless you're using an idiom that is uncommon in America. But I knew what you meant. Still lookin' for that manual though.
 
#15
Sure. It is in the sense that it transforms the connector from one format to another but then in the electronic context it isn't because it doesn't "transform" the signal strength, polarity, resistance, or capacitance of the carrier or variable electrical flow from source to amplification. I think of a transformer as impacting one or more of those aspects of the signal flow. But, as we all know, English is a slippery, flexibly elastic communicative modality that defies specificity and challenges the transmitter and receiver of information to achieve clarity, nes pas?
 
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powmetalbassist said:
So I picked up a Peavey Standard Series 260 today for $70 (just the head). I don't think I got ripped off, but It wasn't the greatest deal. Anyway I'm looking at getting cabs for it, but not sure what to get. If I'm reading the schematics right It is 130w per side at 4 ohms (260 watts for both hence the series name). Just trying to make sure I'm reading this right before I try to buy or hook up speakers to this thing.

http://www.peavey.com/assets/literature/manuals/80361027.pdf

Additionally. wondering what year this came out and how I would date it. the 'Monitor' or Mark III version of this came out in 79' can't find a date for the 'Standard' PA/Mixer though.
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#17
I know EXACTLY what you mean about the thrill of unearthing some hoary relic and actually having it power up. If it's Peavey, it probably WILL power up too. If you still need a manual, try manualslib.com. Good luck!
 

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