Re: 1969 B-3

[Dallas Selman <dselman@islandnet.com>]

At 11:07 PM 4/4/96 -0500, Bt1955@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 96-04-04 22:11:29 EST, you write:
>
>>>Seriously, for somebody contemplating a soldi state preamp, what is
>>the value of the A0-28 out of an A100? 
>
>Dallas as far as I am concerened if the preamp is working fine, I would say 
>no less than $400 to $500 dollars. I might be wrong, but if you look at the
>preamp
>under neath most of it is hard wired. If you had to go out and buy lets say
>a typical hand wired guitar amp lets say just the head alone, theese guys
>charge about $1000 - $2000. So why should that preamp be any different. 
>
>Sure maybe you change the caps in it, you spend about $100 if you do it
>yourself.
>The power transformer, output transformers, percussion transformers, to
>replace
>this stuff costs alot of cash. So if you have a good preamp they are worth
>money.
>
>There is a hell of a lot more to the original preamps VS the solid state
>ones.
>I love Bill beers solid state preamp, it sounds great, but no-body could ever
>convince me that they are better than the originals.You can add a bass and
>treble control to the original, there is a quality of tone that the solid
>state ones
>just cannot produce. You might not ever hear it if your playing with a band,
>but when you are home with a couple of nice Leslies the difference is night
>and day. That is my personal feeling. 
>
>Tony
>
>Thanks, that helps....when I think of putting saw to A100 i kinda cringe,
it would be
a complicated undertaking to chop a Hammond unless you were a bit of a pro
techie.
I am a bit of a shipwright, or used to be in the younger daze, but still....
Anyway, I don't play out so why chop, and why change the preamp.  What I need to
do is tube up my solid state leslie, it sounds like snot.


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Dallas Selman