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  • what is that blue glow in the tubes?

  • That is creepy cool!

  • @histelek

    I almost forgot about the music and just watched the tubes light up! :) where did you find this amp?

  • As it can be seen, output tube plates are of a dull red coloration even without modulation (steady current on B class) to get almost white red when current peaks grows according to modulation on program peaks. Could be it dangerous for power tubes or otherwise RMS power is under anodic dissipation levels for these tubes even during peaks?.

    Which is the real working mode of this amp? A-B or pure B class?. Thanks in advance.

  • beautiful!

  • It seems as though the lights in the room get dim every time the amplifier starts putting out more power.

  • @td1238 Could be the camera's exposure. :)

  • Very nice!

  • What is this song? With video 10 / 5 + sub

  • So beautiful indeed. It the power RMS? Which speakers are you running?

  • Amplifier and visualization, all in one! :)

  • i want.

  • I love the way the amp meter jumps at 2:45 when the bass pedal notes of the organ sound

  • look how the lamps glow !

    they are so beautiful

  • Now play some drum and base and watch it light up :DD

  • прквосходно!

  • its looks like my New 3Kw Audio Engine power amplifier using in the power supply 10 3DG4 in pararel in the power output 24 PL509 power pentodes

  • hmm my yamaha amp lcd screen dims itself to when bass hits.. and lights up...

    lololol thats almost the same

  • Can i request a song?

    Fire up "dyers eve" with metallica....

    you rock

  • What kind of speakers did you used for the 1000 watt?

    Nice to see how that old equipment is in working orde!

    Thanks for showing us.

  • God I love organ bass...

  • perfect music for a piece of serious electronic machinery like this. music plus "visuals" give me chills. i can imagine this beast in some retro science fiction movie ( with rivets ) -of something by "doc" smith...the shields, driven to their utmost, held... - with those rectifiers flaring, pulsing in the background...

    FYI: tho 3-phase isn't strictly necessary from a power standpoint, full wave rectification of 3-phase current gives surprisingly low ripple without the use of any filter caps.

  • I'm hopefully getting three-phase power installed.......... :-))

    What a fantastic device !!

    Category: "Electroporn" ?

  • i love watching the rectifiers.........look almost alive

  • man id love to see this live i cant imagine how loud this would be

    i have a 50W tube amp with kt88 and i think it's loud.......

    wonderful congratulations

  • Fantastic ..... thats the true soud and power of valve amplifiers....

    The superb Orgelsinfonie Nr. 5 - Toccata is make the ground trembling :))

    SUPER!!!!

  • Gosh that thing is beautiful...

  • Wat kon Philips toch mooie dingen bouwen in de jaren 50!! Zelf doe ik "bescheiden" met een versterker met 8x EL95 (stereo) gedeeltelijk gebaseerd op een versterkeridee van Philips eveneens uit de jaren 50 die toen in hun televisietoestellen zat om ijzer (de eindtrafo) te sparen. Goh, aan ijzer in deze EL6471 geen gebrek, wat een prachtig en indrukwekkend apparaat!

    mombert...

  • when I mean run them I am not talking about into a load resistor as you have done, I actually have a pair of JBL theater speakers here that are the size of large moving boxes and have a 2kw RMS rating, even though my 90 watt per channel receiver drives them nicely,. I would LOVE to hear them driven at a full 1kw real RMS power especially with this recording, it would be almost like being there! with the 32ft bass pedal shaking the floor and scaring everyone there! if it's too loud, your too old

  • I wish I could get two of these amplifiers and run them here hooked to a pair of peavy monitors which can easily handle the 1kw these amps put out, also with a few simple wiring changes to the power transformer these can run off 120v single phase input, the diagram on the site you showed shows this, I would LOVE to get two of them and restore both and listen to this in my front room on two big peavy or JBL theater speakers, it would be AMAZING! Even lady gaga would be amazing on two of these!

  • @grassulo Sorry to dissapoint you, but the diagram you refer to shows the OUTPUT voltage, not the mains input. The connections are to the output transformer. In public address work the output is usually expressed as a voltage, not an output impedance. Still a very nice piece of gear though !

  • @grassulo Sorry to dissapoint you, but the diagram you refer to shows the OUTPUT voltage, not the mains input. The connections are to the output transformer. In public address work the output is usually expressed as a voltage, not an output impedance, as tapped step-down transformers are used at each speaker to give the required volume from that particular speaker.. Still a very nice piece of gear though !

  • im sorry but tube amps are just plaing freaky looking from the shape of the tubs to how they work and light up lol

  • im sure the Geiger Counter and Electric Meter are dancing together when drive that monster at full power :D

  • The organ's 32-foot pedal diaphones (fog horns) really make the blue mercury vapor rectifier tubes conduct and light up. : - )

  • Yeaahhh!! Totally AWESOME!!!!!

  • This amplifier and the music is an absolute pleasure to watch over and over again.

  • This amplifier and the music is an absolute pleasure to watch over and over again.

  • I generally a fan of high power solid state amplifiers because they give you consistent reliable performance, but you get the special elegant visuals of tubes. This looks impressive and I bet the video does not do it justice compared to actually seeing it in front of you.

  • @Cringle84 I don't think you are going to get the incredible rich dimensional sound from a solid state amp as you would a tube unit. I could never go back to solid state.I have a 30 watt 1960's Sears Silvertone hiFI hooked up to my /TV DVD/VCR and the sound is breathtaking, better than any solid state or digital setup, 3O tube watts is quite loud and bassy for a living room setup as long as you have really good spekers.

  • @Thermionman1970 No doubt there are Tube amplifiers that have great sound, depending on design, some sound terrible as well. Same applies to Solid state, sound quality varies, When one wants flawless sound from Solid state, they would usually go for the high-current designs employing class AB, or Class A, there are Solid state amps that have terrible distortion performance, example: some commercial PA solid states used for nightclubs are designed to give out heaps of sound but harsh on the ear.

  • i wanna hear some hardstyle!

  • a beautiful organ piece (Widor's Symphony No. 5 is one of my favorites) and a beautiful amp. could you put up an english-language website on the history/uses of this amp?

  • Thanks for your comment. I´m sorry not to know the history of this amp/model, I hope myself someone makes suche a website...

  • @histelek I found an even better solution; a Google Translate plugin for Firefox.

  • All I can say is...WOOOOW! THAT is the most GORGEOUS looking, operating & sounding amp I have EVER SEEN! THANKS SO MUCH for this video!! I want one! ;)

  • Hammer teil

  • What speakers were you driving

  • Is there any way I could find the schematic for this Giant? this is incredible and the

    shear output is mindblowing

  • se me hace agua el plug!

  • AWESOME!

  • Is that the Daniel Chorzempa recording on Phillips 410 054-2?

    Are those 866-A merc rectifiers in the back?

    I must say, it puts on an impressive light show!

  • The recording is Ben van Oosten, organ St.Ooen. The mv-rectifieres are of the type DCG4/1000

  • This really takes my mind back to another time! The bass takes power from the rectifiers and lights them up. Is this a full-wave 3-phase power supply with six rectifiers?

  • Thaks for your comment. Yes, as you´ve explained

  • I love this amp....

  • Pisses self at 2:46. WOW! what a wonderfully visual show of mans control over the electron.

  • @lazzer408 Pegs the meter too! :)

  • Amazing

  • When it somes to quality and/or raw power, you just can't beat tubes(valves).

  • That blue light really is amazingly pretty

  • An amazing piece of art.

    This beats any new amplifier anytime.

    Just the light show by itself in fantastic.

    Excellent audio too.

    Thanks for posting.

  • amazing ...

  • wow power! and it looks good

  • Now that is what I call an amplifier. Look and learn dear audiophiles.

  • awesome!! good choice of music!!!!!!

  • Where did this amplifier come from?

  • Play some Dance, Techno beats on this Tube Monster... i would like to hear that.. :))))))))))

  • Its absolute nice to see the "thing is alive" Superiour clip! Thanks for it!

  • Where would this have been originally used ?

  • The description, that is vislible at google, speaks abaout audio applications - maybe also in the 50s big speakers have existed, like the Blatthaller prewar...

  • great, simply great, to see what engineering could do. to see this amp is like watch a work of art, imagine how the electrones fly through the vac. this amplifier is a monster, a beautiful monster from a time where the possibilities of technician where only a little bit of them what we can do today. treat this amp good and let it play from time to time, its worth to hear his voice also in 100 years. love this vid :-) *thumbs up*

  • Thank you very much for your words!

  • The organist i think is Ben van Oosten on the Cavaillé-Coll organ at St. Oeun in Roeun.

  • Yes, you are right

  • Perfect for morning wake-up!

  • Nice amp, way cool mercury rectifiers!

  • I would like to see a 10:1 scale model of this machine amplify the sound of a live performance of this piece performed at the Saint-Joseph Oratory with canons blasting away like in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, fireworks shooting out of the dome roof and then having the massive rectifiers explode in random succession.

  • Beautiful...

    This combines my love of organ music, vintage audio, and electricity.

  • lol you don´t need a lightshow

  • A REEEL Amplifer. No audiophoolery here

    What speaker system is handling all of this audio?

  • In this video a second amplifier is connected, the 1kW amp works in a load resistor (I´ve mentioned that in the "Toccata video", forgot it doing here). I will try to make a video with the original sound of this amplifier in future.

  • Look out for all the X-rays. Yykes!!!!!

  • Thank you for your comment. It`s French Romantic organ music, Widor: Toccata from his 5th symphony

  • Holy shi- -cries- it is... beautiful!!! What is this music played on this piece of artwork?

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