I have good memories of coming across the NZ made Craft Audio C3&C4 combination at a hifi shop in Ponsonby (don't recall name of the establishment). There were 2 hifi shops more or less just on opposite sides of the street in the Ponsonby area in the late 1980(s)- anybody?
Reproduction from the C3&C4 was extremely enticing but was priced at more than double of my total budget for a complete hifi set (just started working about a year then and the car was a more important requirement in Auckland, as the density was alike that of Los Angeles then).
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For those not familiar with hifi history in New Zealand, Craft Audio was founded by Gary Morrison who later join Peter Thomson at Plinius - his audio relevant experience help shape the Plinius sound of today.
You can read the NZAudio interview with Gary Morrison about the early days of Plinius and when Gary join Peter at Plinius Audio.
Another great looking (& sounding) NZ amp design.
ReplyDeleteGary M of course, now owns Pure Audio.
Have the C3 and C4 and just listening to them now and best of the two is the power amp...the C3...The Preamp is fine but doesn't seem to have the charisma of more recent designs. A bit hifi sounding...I suppose the heavy bias of using 071 IC opamp's inside might be one of the reasons...more recent better op amp technology would probably redress this view althou for 1985 this is a great effort...The power amp in comparison is a great sounding product even today...effortless and confident sounding plus all those Mosfet outputs give it a decent character. I hate to think what the build cost of this amp is today...
ReplyDeleteOIC ... thanks for the information, hardly any on the web nowadays
ReplyDeleteHi anyone know where i could get a circuit diagram for a C5 amp ??
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