Hi Old School guy,
Ever hear of MGT? Those were good sounding amps. A home amp circuit with an inverter stuck on.
I still have my Nakamichi PA-300 II and PA-350 for the next car. Seems to me that car audio completely lost the idea of fidelity somewhere.
-Chris
Ever hear of MGT? Those were good sounding amps. A home amp circuit with an inverter stuck on.
I still have my Nakamichi PA-300 II and PA-350 for the next car. Seems to me that car audio completely lost the idea of fidelity somewhere.
-Chris
Well theres not much fidelity in hip hop and rap. and a majority used them for that in the 1990s .. it seems all it was__ was BASS and maybe some voice.anatech said:
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1975 ish. A Uher 4400 stereo open reel driving a pair of Grundig speakers.
First good one was a Concord HPL-200 (still got it!) with an MGT2100 and a variety of speakers. Kept burning out the woofers (never the tweeters) on my Jensen Co-ax's. Later I installed a pair of 12" free air woofers where the back seat used to go.
It was insane.
-Chris
1975 ish. A Uher 4400 stereo open reel driving a pair of Grundig speakers.
First good one was a Concord HPL-200 (still got it!) with an MGT2100 and a variety of speakers. Kept burning out the woofers (never the tweeters) on my Jensen Co-ax's. Later I installed a pair of 12" free air woofers where the back seat used to go.
It was insane.-Chris
hell i go first, In 1985 i had a 1964 VW beatle with 1700cc hi perf engine "i built" . That year a fried show me a Sanyo 100 watt amp 2x50 with built in motor that would adjust front and rear volume. I had a run of the mill tape deck so i said hell behind the back seat was a fairly big empty square space. i bought cheap presswood 3/4 made a box using 2 seperate chambers for a radio shack home speakers 12 " inch and cross network from radio shack and two large horn type tweeters "radio shack also" a power EQ drove the Sanyo high input . I think i was ahead of time becouse back then i never seen or heard a louder stereo than mine . And i used to go to the popular beach hangout. Theres was no 1 to compete. bass was not deep or very strong but it beat anything back then when most people had maybe 6x9. since it was a seal box was quite loud. people would bring theyr favor casset for me to play it. 1 year later i got rid of the VW and just laid off from the sound bit. It was not until early 1990s that the boom box and bigger amps started to show up in vehicles. But in this town im def know i was 1 of the very first. and people were not using 12/10/8 inch speakers in 1985 . 6x9 yes or oval 6 incher . in 1980 i did remenber the power EQ and some small boosters . That Sanyo 100 watt was the first . Any 1 here remember those Sanyo?.
well you beat me = But i swear here i never saw anything similar unless some rich kid had it in a upper section area had it and did not dare to leave home. and this is not a small city is actually 1 of the largest U.S city.anatech said:😀
1975 ish. A Uher 4400 stereo open reel driving a pair of Grundig speakers.
First good one was a Concord HPL-200 (still got it!) with an MGT2100 and a variety of speakers. Kept burning out the woofers (never the tweeters) on my Jensen Co-ax's. Later I installed a pair of 12" free air woofers where the back seat used to go.
-Chris
Clipped said:
Mosfet Power 650 on two 12" punch pro's so new they didn't even have writing on the dust covers yet...
Power 360 on four 8's for mid bass and four 6.5" + 1" components for mids and highs... Sony 7100ES TAPE deck, EQQ, and fun out the wazoo...
81 Corrolla. 12's were horn loaded.. Popped the seal on the rear windshield many times..
God bless the good old days.. When we were young and stupid..
Well I'm not young anymore but then there's that other thing... 🙂
EDIT: Now have Clarion pro DRX-9255, a/d/s/ P640.2, 4 x a/d/s/ 336.2is 6.5" + 1" components, all Silver plated teflon wire, a/d/s/ 10" woofer on Orion 2125SX with Erath Servo controller. Still not NEARLY as much fun as the old system....
Hi 70s music,
Believe me, I wasn't, nor am I rich. Lucky sometimes - yes.
I built a set of 8" B4 ported boxes for may little brother's bug. He ran an Concord HPL506 and a pair of MGT2100's (50 WPC RMS, 33 VDC rails, or 66 VDC total). The MGT's were out when the original Fosgate punch 250's were out. Killed them (22 VDC rails). Killer bug. Sound quality was way beyond the norm as well.
I do remember those Sanyo units. I fixed a few.
-Chris
Believe me, I wasn't, nor am I rich. Lucky sometimes - yes.
I built a set of 8" B4 ported boxes for may little brother's bug. He ran an Concord HPL506 and a pair of MGT2100's (50 WPC RMS, 33 VDC rails, or 66 VDC total). The MGT's were out when the original Fosgate punch 250's were out. Killed them (22 VDC rails). Killer bug. Sound quality was way beyond the norm as well.
I do remember those Sanyo units. I fixed a few.
Oh yeah! We also had something called disposable income. 😀
-Chris
I HEAR U . well im shock to find those were around but they had to be very expensive in term of 1984 dollars . I never seen or heard a vehicle with systems back them . Other than a tape deck with maybe a decent 6x9 or even 8 TRACKS! . Billy Idol did sound good on those radio shack speakers lol. The little Sanyo amp was not dirt cheap either . I cant find no info on those amps .anatech said:
Boy i feel old. "actually im " Besides the many very memorable early 70s concerts i went . My first ever true stereo sound in my ears was my motocross buddie, He had a Marantz quadraphonic reciver with only 2 of this super nice tower speakers the thing did play loud with a decent bass. This was 1974. 2 years earlier in 1972 another friend who was involve in a motorcycle accident took the money from the settlement and bought a set of Fisher floor speakers 12 inch , a Kenwood or Sony reciver "im not sure this days" and Reverb box i think the reverb box was also Fisher, it did sound decent . I think he paid like $1.200/ as much as my Honda Elsinore 125cc MX in 1974. he did not have enough Mula for a Marantz reciver. Owning a Marantz back then was like owning a Porche 911. He also had enough left over to buy a few pounds of M........a .the herbs did not last long.
Hi 70s music,
I was lucky (stupid) to work in audio back then. I sold Marantz and went on to become Marantz warranty. Excellent stuff that people really never "got". One fixed up today rocks and sounds great at the same time. Velvet glove.
Anyway, I bought everything at employee cost or bought non-working and repaired it. I had the advantage of being able to test everything and being able to know what you should buy.
-Chris
I was lucky (stupid) to work in audio back then. I sold Marantz and went on to become Marantz warranty. Excellent stuff that people really never "got". One fixed up today rocks and sounds great at the same time. Velvet glove.
Anyway, I bought everything at employee cost or bought non-working and repaired it. I had the advantage of being able to test everything and being able to know what you should buy.
-Chris
Not many could afford a Marantz back in the 1970s and even knowing that more exotic stuff also existed. A lighning thru my cb base antena destroy a SAE 2x100 watts amp that i got real cheap in 1990 built in 1973 . it had the silver face with two lagre watt meters it had 2 huge tansformer for each bank also 2 huge capacitors . and lots motorola TO-3 type transistors. I drove it with kenwood reciver it took 2 phono type plugs on each side L -R input. That amp sure sounded nice. oh everything alse burn too. it was my mess around garage sounds "in the garage".
SAE leftovers.
Bongiorno has had a hand in designing many fine audio products. He began his engineering career with Hadley Laboratories, then moved on to Marantz. As the director of engineering at Dynaco, he created the Dynaco 400. While serving as director of engineering at SAE (Scientific Audio Engineering), he invented the full-dual-differential, full-complementary amplifier topology concept that has become the standard for virtually all high-end power amps made today. After leaving SAE, he founded The Great American Sound Company (GAS), where the Ampzilla amplifier was born.
Bongiorno has had a hand in designing many fine audio products. He began his engineering career with Hadley Laboratories, then moved on to Marantz. As the director of engineering at Dynaco, he created the Dynaco 400. While serving as director of engineering at SAE (Scientific Audio Engineering), he invented the full-dual-differential, full-complementary amplifier topology concept that has become the standard for virtually all high-end power amps made today. After leaving SAE, he founded The Great American Sound Company (GAS), where the Ampzilla amplifier was born.
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