20,000 Watt, 5000 Lb Stereo Amplifier (Only $50,000).

FROM:

Now, ***THIS*** is what I call a SOUND SYSTEM !!!

(For STEREO, you'll need 2 of these)

Total audio output power (for two amps), 20KW. Tube filaments operate 6 volts @ 60 amps (each tube) Weight 5000 lbs

No schematic on website (Damnit).

ONLY $50,000 plus S+H.

The WL-5736 output tubes can be seen here:

Or buy one tube on ebay for $1665.00 plus $50 Shipping.

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(EQP) WEST-FG-10 Westinghouse type FG-10 Audio Amplifier - 10 kw. Accepts 600 ohm input signal, 10 mW maximum and produces 10 kw output at impedances from 1.6

distortion less than 5%. Reduced output available below 30 Hz and up to

Uses a McIntosh K-1071, 200 watt amplifier as a driver, feeding four (4) WL-5736 triodes with plate dissipation of 2500 watts per tube and maximum DC input power of 4200 watts.

Useful for driving vibration testing equipment or other industrial applications. Single channel, not stereo.

Another feature of this unit is that it only requires 23 square feet of floor space in a 82-1/2" tall cabinet. Condition of unit is excellent. Probably never used, but 60 years of dust. Manufactured in 1953. Weighs

• Input power: 230 or 460 vac, 3 phase @ 50 Hz or 60 Hz * Dimensions: 34" x 44" x 82-1/2"H

$25,000 each

Pah, you can get 40kW of amp in a 1U box with close to zero distortion for around $1500. Now THAT is an amplifier.

Gareth.

I think you're off by a decimal place unless the exchange rate has changed!

Does it come with a bridge? Usually stories like this involve the sale of a bridge.

Does it come with a bridge? Usually stories like this involve the sale of a bridge.

Those are vacuum cleaner watts.

I think you're off by a decimal place unless the exchange rate has changed!

Oops, so I am. Typo in translation

Gareth.

I think I remember seeing that same ad on the same store site probably going on ten years ago now. How many of them do they have? Are they still trying to sell the same one?

still trying to sell the same one? "

They must have a warehouse full of them. You know how strong the demand is. Everyone wants to put three phass power in their house right ? Around here you pay for that, not the power company. It is not cheap and is actually n ot available in most residential areas here.

And no mention of speakers. I am selling my Phase Linear because it blew so many speakers. What (watt) are we talking here ? A thousand speakers that can handle what, a couple thousand apiece ? That'll make you neighbors happ y, and I mean even if you are on a farm.

Things like this are made for like Woodstock. Not even to be used in the ci ty. Nice to imagine having one, but thing about the speakers.

And the cops. I have been in jail for a loud stereo. One day and actually i t was not bad. But still, I would have had a better time at hoe because the re was beer there.

so many speakers. What (watt) are we talking here ? A thousand speakers tha t can handle what, a couple thousand apiece ?

I am presently running an amp capable of 500 watts into its speakers (Citat ion 16 into Maggies). I can (and do) play at any volume I would care to - t hat is I could tolerate without ear damage - and without clipping. I have n o worries about speaker damage. The Citation 16, while not quite in the Pha se Linear 700B class, certainly is in the 400 class.

I use regularly two brute-force amps, both HK products (Citation 16 & 19). Again I can (and do) run *LOUD* and have never, repeat, never damaged a spe aker thereby. This is not to mention the several other amp & speaker combin ations in the inventory.

I suspect user-error.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

God that must sound terrible. I would never even contemplate buying amps made in Hong Kong (or mainland China for that matter). And I'd certainly never admit it in a newsgroup! I still think the best combo by far is Scandanavian amps like B&O coupled with English speakers such as Celestion, Tannoy, KEF & so forth. YMMV.

HK in this case refers to Harmon Kardon, not Hong Kong.

And made in Plainfield, Long Island, New York.

The only pacific rim audio equipment I use are CD changers from Sony, Japan. The rest is US or Euro in origin.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

I used to have an Onkyo TX-2500 mk2 receiver from around 1978; I thought it was pretty nice! for being a "low-end" Japanese receiver from that era. Got lost in a move I think, wish I knew what happened to it...

NOT OVER 24k ?

I TRIED ONE AT Farragut. 9 0R 12 HORN CONES. LOUD. ACROOSS THE RIVER N THRU THE WOODS NO PROBLEM ...EXPECT THE RIG WAS PRE ADJUSTED TO NOT BREAK GLASS...PROB KOREAN SURPLUS.

PLEASED FINDING EVERYONE WAS AMUSED.

what the f*ck.