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Post by fjam82 on Mar 1, 2007 22:59:50 GMT -7
Proud new owner of a Delta 88. This thing is ridiculous!!!! Blew me out of the water in 2 seconds flat!
Anybody know of any mods available by Dr.Z or anybody else?? This amp can only get better!!!
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Post by Lefty on Mar 3, 2007 21:36:29 GMT -7
It was perfected on the Doc's bench, you can't mess with perfection. One more brush stroke and you'll ruin the whole painting.
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Post by mward on Mar 5, 2007 8:07:23 GMT -7
Proud new owner of a Delta 88. This thing is ridiculous!!!! Blew me out of the water in 2 seconds flat! Anybody know of any mods available by Dr.Z or anybody else?? This amp can only get better!!! It's so bad it has nowhere to go but up? I bought a Dr. Z because it was perfect as delivered, not because it needed mods. If I wanted to buy an amp that needed help I would have bought something at guitar center. I would just play it. The docs amps are so sonically complex that it takes a while to get used to all the subtle nuances available without going in and messing the circuit up. Lots of modders have found, when messing with one of doc's creations, that the way he built it is the way it sounds the best. Doc isn't some hack, he REALLY understands what is going on in an amp and builds them to work together as a whole unit greater than the sum of the parts. Messing around in there is only going to make it sound worse.
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Post by aj1169 on Mar 5, 2007 8:23:36 GMT -7
What type of mods are you looking for? I'm not sure I would buy a new amp and start looking to mod it right away. I'm not saying you're wrong for wanting to do that, but I would at least put some time on the amp as is before looking to make changes, especially if you're already happy with the tone.
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Post by LeftyLang on Mar 5, 2007 21:26:26 GMT -7
For more clean headroom & output... bias the amp to 50 mA
Check with the Doc first on this one to make sure the warranty is still OK when you do this ?
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Post by Shannon on Mar 6, 2007 21:11:42 GMT -7
There is so much you can change with just your speaker selection. You don't need to go into the amp IMHO. If the speakers don't get you to where you want to be, play with some tubes. If that doesn't work, trade it for a different flavored Z. Your happy place is out there, the fun part is finding it.
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Post by myles on Mar 22, 2007 10:39:41 GMT -7
If you want the amp to have much more clean headroom, perhaps to be used as a bass amp as and idea or a big clean amp that will have above KT-45 clean headroom change the 220K (I believe but do not remember for sure) plate resistors on the phase inverter to 100k. This will clean up the amp in trade for getting the stock amp's cool agressive tone at any level so to get an agressive tone you will have to really crank it higher.
Watch out though at high levels .... it may say "88" on the front of the amp but I have pulled 31.2 volts into 8 ohm load at 1 kHz with these amps with a solid state rectifier and this is 121.68 watts. Watch those speakers!
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Post by fjam82 on Mar 22, 2007 13:16:11 GMT -7
I think I'll stick to it as is, it's amazing and I would not want to screw with the tone...
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Post by Don on May 20, 2007 8:09:38 GMT -7
Proud new owner of a Delta 88. This thing is ridiculous!!!! Blew me out of the water in 2 seconds flat! Anybody know of any mods available by Dr.Z or anybody else?? This amp can only get better!!! Why would you want to mod such a great amplifier. The 88 is in a league all it's own. If you're looking for something different, add another Z to your arsenal!
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