It's great to see that on this wee-forum the guy who makes Matrix amps makes an effort to contribute!
Good luck to him and all he does.
Yesterday a lush amp came in the post that I won for a mere fifty quid. In its day this brand was a leading British manufacturer of bespoke amps. And this amp would have cost over five hundred pounds a quarter of a century ago! It’s minimalistic appearance is a joy to behold. Turning those volume control knobs is a superb feeling, as they have a subtle click for each calibrated rise in volume.
I look at this UK amp and see simplicity, solidity and were our sound-system culture more mainstream and recognized, an iconic design!
All hail the UK amp makers. For where would the cabinet makers be without them! (Looking to foreign makers).
When my A.S.S systems are up and running I’d like to have them powered solely by British amps if possible, if I find something I like. At present I acquire C-Audios. It’s a shame they’re not in production these days.
If I were in a position of political power with near unlimited funds at my disposal for reasons i don't have time to mention here, but sound equipment featured in the equation for some reason. I would take this design icon to a small British amp making company, tell them to change nothing about its outward construction, but strip out the insides and replace it with five versions. A 2000watt version, a 3000watt version, a 5000watt version, a 7000watt version and a 10,000watt version. None of which would be more than two units tall.
I would obviously see to it the company had the funds to make it so. Sadly such investment from the state, comes to the manufactures of death devices such as new missiles and other morbid crap. Or when our money has to be used to refinance the corrupt banks.
I do not see any point in redesigning the wheel when it comes to speaker cabinets, as I think the best has been done. I do believe radical progression in our industry lies in amplifier design. Electronics is an exponentially rapidly emerging technological manifestation. Whereas speaker cabinet design is about ones individual abilities in carpentry, coupled with prowess in mathematics and physics. I don’t think you’ll see better cabs in our age than what came out of the A.S.S factory.
Whereas with amplifiers it’s a different matter altogether. I’m yet to see a large range of power amps from multiple manufacturers where standard top of the line is a two unit 10k amp. Or 15k two unit amp that can run at 1 ohm
What a joy it would be to be able to power 30K from six units of rack space (3 two unit amps) and not be limited to just one or two manufacturers offering such amps. As personally I’ve peeked at what Void and Infinite offer and I don’t dig their appearance.
It’s a shame that we CURRENTLY live on a world where much of the resources of wealthy nations is dedicated to spending billions of pounds on the latest greatest and most up to datest method to exterminate ever larger swaths of humanity.
There are numerous more advanced worlds in our galaxy than where we live, that left the death destruction and extermination of their planets fellow citizens behind thousands upon thousands of years ago. I wonder what their amps and sound systems are like, as their aptitude with electronics is more than most people can imagine.
