First, I rarely do this sort of PSA post -- and for all I know, I am totally screwing up someone's sleeper purchase with this -- but to the right person the above title means a lot.
Someone in Cincinnati (or that area) is selling a PAIR of I.T. Verdin company "Bell Ringers of America" carillon amplifiers. These amps are very rare, and are basically McIntosh MC100 amps in an enclosed, wall mountable housing:
Link
I bought an MC100 a few years ago, and did as much research as I could into the MC100 before hand. In the process of researching that amp I learned of these amps with nearly identical internals, which McIntosh made for the I.T. Verdin company, who sold them to churches and schools as institutional amplifiers. If the MC100 is among the rarest of McIntosh amplifiers -- something like 369 made in total? -- these are similarly rare. And this guy is selling a pair of them.
The one other thing I can add/remember from my earlier search is that I think these amps had a slightly different frequency response from the factory -- maybe 100hz to 20k hz, vs 20hz to 20k hz? If these are similar to the ones I read about, they are essentially 100 watt mono amps, the big brother to the MC50.
I never deleted my ebay feed for this search, as this showed up in my in box today. I am in no position to buy them, as I already have too many amps, and the seller is in Cincinnati and looking for a local sale only. But this could be a great find to the right Deadhead.
Not affiliated with the seller in any way, just passing on some interesting info.
Cheers,
REJ
Someone in Cincinnati (or that area) is selling a PAIR of I.T. Verdin company "Bell Ringers of America" carillon amplifiers. These amps are very rare, and are basically McIntosh MC100 amps in an enclosed, wall mountable housing:
Link
I bought an MC100 a few years ago, and did as much research as I could into the MC100 before hand. In the process of researching that amp I learned of these amps with nearly identical internals, which McIntosh made for the I.T. Verdin company, who sold them to churches and schools as institutional amplifiers. If the MC100 is among the rarest of McIntosh amplifiers -- something like 369 made in total? -- these are similarly rare. And this guy is selling a pair of them.
The one other thing I can add/remember from my earlier search is that I think these amps had a slightly different frequency response from the factory -- maybe 100hz to 20k hz, vs 20hz to 20k hz? If these are similar to the ones I read about, they are essentially 100 watt mono amps, the big brother to the MC50.
I never deleted my ebay feed for this search, as this showed up in my in box today. I am in no position to buy them, as I already have too many amps, and the seller is in Cincinnati and looking for a local sale only. But this could be a great find to the right Deadhead.
Not affiliated with the seller in any way, just passing on some interesting info.
Cheers,
REJ
Last edited by redeyedjim on Fri Oct 10, 2014 3:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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