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In Reply to: New old school coming home. posted by Steelhead on February 1, 2016 at 14:47:51:
Below: At the cabin running Paradigm Reference 40v3's
Above: Fisher 500c with grid resistor mod and 1uf Russian K40 pio caps.
Nice!
Those 30ish glorious tube watts should spank those LaScala's good. I had a pair of LaScala's years ago while I was in the service that I bought new from the base exchange for $1,250 in 1987. One night a buddy of mine and I got this bright idea to drive them with a monster Adcom amp. After a couple of hours of Judas Priest and AC/DC one them started smoking - a lot! We pried the cabinet apart and discovered that the voice coil got so FFFFING hot that it had started the cabinet on fire! Two days later after I sobered up I returned them to the BX for another pair......Bwah ha ha ha, to be 20 again.
If that 500c starts going through 7591's like a super model in in a pile of coke, you may want to do the grid resistor mod.
The LaScala will run on 5 watts but in my experience that doesn't leave enough headroom. In my experience they need at least double that to get it up.
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- RE: New old school coming home. - geezerrocket 17:05:11 02/04/16 (2)
- New old school coming home. - Steelhead 13:04:20 02/05/16 (1)
- Not A Bad Idea - geezerrocket 13:19:40 02/05/16 (0)
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