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In Reply to: RE: Here you go posted by neolith on May 19, 2017 at 14:27:56
Classic. They were the first Maggies I'd ever heard as well and that was the pair I bought.
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A Crown 5002 taken out of a closed down club is available near me. It is said to be in working order. What is a fair price for it? And what should I look out for?
I was going to demur to Satie, but I see he's already answered . . .
There is also a Crown K2 available from this club closure. How does it compare to the 5002?
Cheap and well regarded at its price point the K2 is OK. Definitely not a 5002. The 5002 is in a different class. The 5002 listed at $5k.
Everything I read indicates the Crown should be driving the bass panels. Can the Adcom be used on the MT panels?
Depending on what the Crown costs, I will have $500 - $1000 left in my budget. In order to bi-amp, I need a crossover. I can have my Adcom GTP-500 preamp serviced and use it though I would prefer a tube preamp.
As always, open to suggestions and solutions.
If you are going to have a Crown 5000 series or Macro Reference then start by using it for the entire speaker. and play that way for a while till you established how it sounds in your room once it is optimized as to positioning, Since those are 30-40 year old speakers they will need a shake down period to reveal delamination or any other problem they might have. That might eat the budget for biamping for a time - so don't prepare for it just yet. Once you are sure what you have has been repaired and will function for some time into the future then you start working towards tweaking the speaker and amplification.
Note what you find unsatisfying or lacking and then work with us to offer mods tweaks and to apply biamping and possibly DSP.
Thanks for the good advice Satie, as always. I see how easy it is to get sucked into the acquisition of one piece of equipment after another.
Will the Schiit SYS passive preamp work for the Crown or should I dig the Adcom preamp out?
The adcom preamp will do a better job so if you have one buried somewhere then do dig it up.
The 5002 will be delivered tonight for $750. It and the Adcom GTP-500 preamp will go in for service this weekend.Will the 5002 find the typical household 15 amp circuit adequate? Preamp and CD player will be the only other things plugged into that outlet.
Edits: 05/24/17
you can try with an extension chord to a 25 amp outlet that you get at home depot. The amp can take up a big portion of the 15 amps on startup so it needs to sit on a circuit (not just outlet) with no big power draw on it. Before I put in a separate panel for my basement listening room it was all off of one breaker and when the dehumidifier or sump operated switching on the amp could put you in the dark. Hopefully your living room outlets have nothing on their breaker circuit.
The Crown 5002 that I picked up is wired for 240v but apparently can be converted to 120v. Is there a preference for home use?
Also in addition to what Satie said 240V is balanced, so less likely to cause hum. The power company is doing you a big favor for free.
Downside, it's more dangerous if something goes wrong. You should also order new 240V connectors and receptacles (if you've rewired it yourself) so nobody plugs a 120V device into the outlet. I did that once when I moved into a new apartment with a miswired outlet and the next morning, discovered that my new torchiere lamp had melted!
Make sure you have a full 240V, if the cheapskate power company have you 2 legs of 3-phase commercial power like me you'll only have 207V and are better off using a single 120V line.
The preference is for the power rating you have available to you. If you have a 240 outlet for your room then it would be better to use that, gives more power.
Should be around $1500 depending on condition.
It is a matter of what it sounds like more than what it looks like. It could have been used in a badly ventilated rack and still look like it just came out of the box despite components being half way fried to death.
In a club environment the amp has a better chance to survive intact than a touring life on the road..
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