2020年2月7日 · I'm possibly in the market for a good bang-for-your-buck vintage solid-state power amp. I like my current Jolida 1000p, but the tubes I like are very expensive, and they don't last long. What are some opinions on the Dynaco 400 series? 200 watts per channel, vintage solid-state, pretty cheap used.

2020年9月25日 · Dynaco SS gear is not generally all that well thought of. At least this is true with the Pat 4 and Pat 5 preamps. Most mods of these preamps usually completely gut the chassis and throw a new tube design in the chassis.

2024年5月9日 · Dynaco equipment is like the Model T of audio....mass produced, surprisingly good within limits, easy to repair/restore/modify. I believe that audio, like most hobbies, has a point of diminishing returns, beyond which one has to spend every increasing amounts of money for incrementally smaller improvements.

2017年8月17日 · The other compelling option I have been looking at is a pair of MC30's. They cost about three times as much as the Dynaco option and have half the power. The other benefit of the Dynaco is that at 60 watts, I could use them with a pair of Paradigm Studio 100's I have in storage if I didn't like them better than the Fisher.

2013年10月6日 · The Dynaco PAT-4 - in stock form - is one of the harsher bits of gear I've heard. I've owned three of them - one back in 1990 as a cheap stand-in for a preamplifier when I was broker than a church mouse.

2016年8月25日 · The OLD Wharfedales were very-similar to the Dynacos in terms of the midrange. The ones from their heyday with the cone-tweeters are probably the most-Dynaco-like, oddly-enough, but that's because they used ported/vented designs and alnico drivers. 3. vented (or ported) bass-response with a Dynaco-like sound - Woofer-size may come into play here.

2016年8月25日 · the dynaco a 25 do have good solid bass, somewhat loose though. adding a subwoofer to the atc scm7 will add much of the missing weight tbh. if I A-B the dynaco to the atc scm7 + sub, theres not much the a-25 do better except higher spl …

2010年5月24日 · On the upstairs second system, the Dynaco PAS-3X was taken out and the PAT-4 installed. Paired with the McIntosh MC-250, this could have been a fairly common solid-state system back in 1969! The sound was certainly different than the previous preamplifier as this classic all solid-state combination was faster and had deeper bass.

2009年1月25日 · Carl - Dynaco ST-70, nice little amp in my opinion with a few judicious updates/mods - not the last word in accuracy but a nice warm tube sound kinda in the MC30 sound neighborhood for a lot less cash.

2017年4月24日 · Dynaco PAS would be the natural partner - also lots of modifications and parts out there for this preamp. A stock PAS - especially with aged parts - can sound rather "tubey" / overly warm, but a new power supply cap, plus coupling caps really helps. I recently built a "new" Dynaco PAS that has all new parts, including the chassis, for ~$500.