www.orphanaudio.com

[ubxf]

Hello
it looks like it could become a good source of info
www.orphanaudio.com
francois

 

[soundguy]

and thus concludes the era of affordable american recording console junk.

dave

 

[MikoKensington]

People are starting to snatch up that ADM stuff. SHame. I figured I'd buy some at some point. But the rising prices are making it seem like less of a bargain.

 

[b3groover]

I guess he's out of the Quad Eight stuff.

 

[sverige_cruz]

I guess he's out of the Quad Eight stuff.

I don't think so - I think he's just changed the site and getting things in order. He told me a while back that he was going to add schematics and stuff to his site eventually. Might be interesting. ??

-- Jesus

 

[hitchhiker]

[quote author="soundguy"]and thus concludes the era of affordable american recording console junk.

dave[/quote]

so true, I bought my ca-127 and 137 amps about two years ago and now
people want 3 and 4 times what I paid. For my future QE opamps I
think I'll have to go DIY. I sure wish I could afford a few more ca-137s :sad:

Lance

 

[MikoKensington]

Yeah, I got my QE 127a's on ebay for $40 a piece. People want $250 or more for them now? I hate this business, sometimes.

 

[soundguy]

I bought an american console for a very fair price, well, ridiculous price actually, and is among the best sounding consoles I have ever heard, totally crazy. The way things are going, when Im done with that thing, if the day ever comes, thats my 401K right there...

paying TONS of money for those QE 127's in alot of ways is sorta silly, the opamp isnt potted and we have schems and layouts, it isnt very hard at all to build one of those up compared to a 325. A friend built one from scratch and there isnt any voodoo about those opamps on those cards. Its an early jensen transformer on there, so when you buy one thats pretty much what you are paying for, I would love to know he closest current jensen equivalent, I bet its one of the cheaper ones for sure. Thats not a very clean sounding transformer, for a jensen...

Im glad I was able to get some of these at a fair (although not bargain basement) price, they are good utility amplifiers for sure. Easy to build and get right though, paying tons of money for these doesnt make too much sense to me.

dave

 

[Scodiddly]

Pbbbttt. That equipment was going to get expensive anyway, even with the TapeOp forums down.

 

[soundguy]

I dont think neve got really expensive until there was an online resourse or two that put all the info together in one convenient place, what drove the price up was more people less afraid of it as the documentation was available. For some american console manufacturers there is scarce info and not really a place to cull it together minus one Q8 forum that nobody ever reads.

dave

 

[wilebee]

hey dave I think the jensen equivalent is a jt-123 I've seen it on some of my docomentation as a specked output transformer Wil