Take a look at some of Crown's early technology with a figurehead of the industry! Gerald Stanley looks back at the creation of the DC300 series. If you have a Crown amplifier in need of service, we can help: crownservice.aetechron.com/
J. Gordon Holt of Stereophile really liked this amp and reviewed it in 1970 saying "Summing up, then, we would venture to say that this is the best power amplifier that is currently available, regardless of cost. We will even go so far as to guess that it will not be possible to build a better one, although we have some times been proven wrong on some similarly rash statements in the past. One thing we are quite certain of, though, is that this amplifier has spoiled us."
i'm still using a dc300A Labortory Power Amplifer today, had to do alot of work to it buts its still an amazing amp with great sound quality, i even used it to watch this video
Nice, I'd love to visit the museum someday. I currently still own and use almost daily, a D-75, 2 DC-300A series 2, a Comtech 800, and 2 Comtech 1610 amps. Just today I received an RTA-2 which is in good working order.
I worked for a super smart fella, in the '80's. It was a Hi-Fi repair shop and we were a Crown warranty station. My boss was friends with Gerald and they would chat about circuitry, etc. From the conversations that I heard that they had, you knew that Gerald was/is immensely smart. There was a piece of the circuit, where a transistor was in a really odd position in the circuit. I think one of their grounded bridge designs. There's a mirror amplifier circuit that swings the voltage on the Vcc/Rail capacitor(s). In that Vcc swinger amplifier, was the weird transistor. My boss asked Gerald, "This one stumps me. What does that do?". (Gerald) "Oh, that shorts out the base-Emitter capacitance shutting the transistor transistor off, faster.". He was very clever. I've worked on some of the Techron's Amps (spun out of Crown) and it has the similar M-600 Grounded Bridge, many, many outputs and the analog thermal computer. Yup, he is at the top of the heap. Thank you, Gerald, for all of your cool, innovative designs that harness huge while keeping SOA within bounds.
It is people like Nikolai Tesla, Elon Musk or Gerald Stanley that change the world for a better place. And the DC300 was a giant leap forward in the solid-state amplification world. Thank you, Mr Stanley, for your incredible work over the years. Bless you. I hope to visit the museum one day soon. It goes without saying I could not live without my DC300s (and all my vintage Crown gear, for that matter). And thank you Harman Group to maintain the Crown legacy alive.
Problem: Solid state amps burn out too easily, and without so much as a flash or pop. Crown: Here's your solution, an amp that works! D. Hafler (Hafler) and B. Carver (Phase Linear): Here's your solution - amps that catch fire under heavy load! There's more than one way to skin a cat!
