Why are attentuators so expensive?

[PUCKBOY99]

Re: Why are attentuators so expensive?

They list new for $300. I picked mine up for $225 plus shipping from a guy on thegearpage.net.

That Legacy is working out great for me but MAN is it heavy artillery when it comes to volume. I literally had soundmen yelling at me that it was still too loud last week and it was on 2.

Hey, that's not too bad. That's what I paid for a new Weber Stereo MASS.

Good luck....look forward to the review

[shredaholic]

Re: Why are attentuators so expensive?

PPIMV - $8.00

sorted.

[tone4days]

Re: Why are attentuators so expensive?

.. Those run for only $800 brand new.

you help me make my point, friend

think of the price of that toy in relation to what most people pay for housing in a month ... or car payments .. or whatever ...

when the price of the amp grows into 4 digits, my point becomes even clearer ...


are attenuators engineered to manage heat dissipation too? ... something like a resistor network in a paintcan filled with tar like they use in the power transformers on the utility poles? shunt the unwaned power to the resistor grid and let them get hot, but the tar will serve as a heat sink to keep them from roasting?

or do i have that all wrong?

t4d

[Kommerzbassist]

Re: Why are attentuators so expensive?

Actually this is how attenuators work... they produce heat by sucking up the power from the amp (which is quite much) that is then again dissipated.

[B2D]

Re: Why are attentuators so expensive?

you help me make my point, friend

think of the price of that toy in relation to what most people pay for housing in a month ... or car payments .. or whatever ...

when the price of the amp grows into 4 digits, my point becomes even clearer ...

are attenuators engineered to manage heat dissipation too? ... something like a resistor network in a paintcan filled with tar like they use in the power transformers on the utility poles? shunt the unwaned power to the resistor grid and let them get hot, but the tar will serve as a heat sink to keep them from roasting?

or do i have that all wrong?

t4d

$800 amp thats loud as a maw faw + $225 to make it sound good at low levels.... yeah i guess you're right. I guess not many people think of some "inexpensive" amps being loud SOBs though.

I've heard many heads that were louder, mind you, but the tone of this amp is raging and brutal... its very fat and very smooth. Not as gainy as you'd think either. What it lacks in gain it makes up for in pure balls and harmonic overtones. This is an amp that LIKES high volume settings.