For the record, here are the reasons that I purchased from you guys:
1. I could tell immediately that you guys have a passion for your work, and a non-conformist attitude.
2. I read the the forum "off topic" section, and learned of Robin's work at Phase Linear. I am from that era. I was a DJ at the time. The power war years! Pioneer receivers with 300 watts per channel with built in waffle irons and huge knobs! The Phase amps were powerful, but kinda looked like those old western towns, with big fronts and not much in the rear lol. Wonder if anyone else remembers an amp called "AmpZilla"? I had Altec Lansing Voice of the Theater cabinets with EV and JBL drivers in my bedroom.
3. Anyone who designs a charge controller to look like a art deco pipe organ has to have a screw loose. My kind of people! ;D
Thanks Nashville !
We were also Spectro Acoustics from the 1970s making amplifiers and Equalizers and preamps and tuners etc...
Yes, we knew the Ampzilla guys. Weren't they in Colorado ?
Those were really fun days ! I was in the NW audio biz until 1994, when I went to Trace Engineering to do this
kind of stuff.
Hopefully you read the history article that Robin has been working on from time to time...
http://www.midnitesolar.com/pages/frontPage/nwHistory/history.php
boB
Oh hey Bob,
You were there too? Very cool. What was your role there? I saw Spectro Acoustics components at a mall in Michigan, if my memory serves me correctly. Can't remember the name of the store.
The days of bouncing Vu meter needles were fun. Large reels to reels meant you had made it in the world. Equalizers with the cool looking wave appearance were the bomb. Never mind your speakers really needed a completely different setting. Matsushita's Technics components were constantly racing against Pioneer's 1st place position. I bought neither, ultimately going with a large Onkyo TX 6500. One on the first quartz locked tuners. This unit followed me for years until one day around 2003, I donated it to GoodWill.
Today I have a Carver amp, Rotel Pre-amp tuner and B&W 805's. A good glass of wine can cultivate many more fine memories of an era gone by....
Ahhh yes....
Technics HAD to out-do Pioneer, adding LED Vu's and more power...
Ahh brushed aluminum..
What a GAS....
Damn; you guys make me nostalgic about the days when your amp could heat the room!
Sadly, I have sunk into the pit of a Bose acoustic wave machine.
Probably because of years of rock concerts without hearing protection, years at the range firing heavy calibers without same and coast to coast and border to border pushing those screaming Detroit diesels down the asphalt.
Now, what did you say? :o
Tom
Detroit Diesel: The most efficient method man has invented for turning diesel fuel into noise.
Quote from: dbcollen on December 23, 2012, 12:33:19 PM
Detroit Diesel: The most efficient method man has invented for turning diesel fuel into noise.
;D
Quote from: TomW on December 23, 2012, 11:37:55 AM
Damn; you guys make me nostalgic about the days when your amp could heat the room!
My old man had a tube amp ... I built my own outta transistors. Remember transistors?
Quote from: dbcollen on December 23, 2012, 12:33:19 PM
Detroit Diesel: The most efficient method man has invented for turning diesel fuel into noise.
The correct phrase is "Harley Davidson: converting fossil fuel into noise without the benefit of horsepower for 100 years."
Quote from: boB on December 23, 2012, 12:28:13 AM
Thanks Nashville !
We were also Spectro Acoustics from the 1970s making amplifiers and Equalizers and preamps and tuners etc...
Yes, we knew the Ampzilla guys. Weren't they in Colorado ?
Those were really fun days ! I was in the NW audio biz until 1994, when I went to Trace Engineering to do this
kind of stuff.
Hopefully you read the history article that Robin has been working on from time to time...
http://www.midnitesolar.com/pages/frontPage/nwHistory/history.php
boB
Originally GAS was in Chatsworth, CA.