As per Glenn's vociferously stated wishes this will not happen.
In praise of Glenn Croft
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As per Glenn's vociferously stated wishes this will not happen.
matodono1
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OK, here is a Glen 911 story?
Back in the mid 1980s I used to occasionally bump into Glen at Hifi_Dave's shop Radlett Audio. Glen used to come in a variety of 911's, but the one that stood out for me was a lovely 3.2 Carrera in Martini colours, similar to the one below.
In the early 1990s I became very friendly with Tom Fletcher of Nottingham Analogue fame and we did some Hi-Fi Shows together, plus I helped him with a couple of his projects. Tom suggested I become a Croft dealer so I called up Glen and ordered a couple of amps. This was well before I started my own Tron brand. I knew the Croft amps quite well as I had serviced most of the range since about 1986 and owned his top model "The Mega". Anyway, Glen used to deliver his amps by hand, so I used to get a nice visit from him, usually on his way back to Erdington from delivering to his London dealers. I remember one visit, I was in the workshop and I heard this very loud exhaust noise coming up the road, which could only have been from a Porsche flat 6. After handing me a nice Epoch preamplifier, I couldn't help but notice this extremely strong smell, which was a combination of petrol, oil and exhaust fumes which must have come from Glens clothes. We had a cup of tea together then I got to check out his 911. This 911 was a far cry from the one he had in Martini colours. This one was completely stripped out with no insulation or sound deadening inside, lighten to the absolute limit, even more so than the RS model, plus the engine had been tweaked too. I couldn't help noticing that behind the seat there were some big holes in the body work above and around the gearbox. You could see the road plus the gearbox and engine through these holes. Ahh! That's were the smell came from! After about an hour Glen got back in his 911 and sped back to Erdington, with all my neighbours pulling back their curtains trying to see what was making all the noise...
Was that the tatty red one with the shiny Compomotive alloys and sun faded perspex windows?
There was a second seat sat on a pile of packing boxes in his front room to be fitted if he ever had to take a passenger.
It was always hilarious to me.
M
matodono1
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He took the Quads to Scarborough along with lots of spare panels. They never did get reinstated into a system which I often asked him about. He was happy enough with what he had in the workshop.
M
Thats the one.
Radlett Audio
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When I first started selling Croft amps in the early 80s, there was no packing, just black plastic bin bags smelling of cat wee.
Always makes me smile when customers ask about the " instruction book" and "warranty certificate". Good luck with that..
Always makes me smile when customers ask about the " instruction book" and "warranty certificate". Good luck with that..
beammeup
pfm Member
Have a croft Six Pack and seen off others at ten times the price
Looking back at this older thread daytona - I have PM'd you for advice about Croft in general because it certainly looks like you have the experience .... (or I will PM you shortly).
There have been almost countless circuits used by Glenn over the years, inside boxes that were labelled with far fewer model designations. Many of the circuits are available online and if one thing is for sure, none of them were ever potted, so copying is simplicity itself. Comments from Jez Arkless over time suggests that the circuits are very far from revolutionary anyway.
Surely producing the very same but with another brand on the boxes would be more than viable???? Comment @G T Audio or @Radlett Audio ?
Surely producing the very same but with another brand on the boxes would be more than viable???? Comment @G T Audio or @Radlett Audio ?
I seem to recall that Audio flair in London offered that facility as an after market mod. Maybe they still do.
As I said in an earlier post. Servicing/repairing Glenn's amp should not be a problem for any competent engineer. I did it for many years both as a Croft dealer and also for other HiFi Dealers in and around the south of England. If you have any mono amps make sure you get the other matching amplifier done at the same time, otherwise the amps may sound different if any parts have to be replaced.
It can be done...
Not quite the same issue as Graham raises, but I bought a second Series 5 for bi-amping, and when I looked underneath there were a few differences, including the values of the coupling caps.
I bought all my Croft gear from KJ West One, and they told me that you could never rely on two of his amps being the same, even when the serial numbers were very close (as mine were).
Alex
KJ were correct. I never found two of Glenn's power amps the same when they had been bought separately, as in one started off as a stereo amp and then a second one was bought and then both were modded for monoblock operation. OK you will get the same output, but if they are built with different components inside, ultimately the two amps will sound slightly different.
matodono1
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They only existed if Adrian at Audioflair modified them. He had permission from Glenn to do so as he was a personal friend. https://audioflair.co.uk/ a remote pot is easy enough to retrofit.
matodono1
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That was true in the early years, however after the breakup of Eminent Audio the range was standardised and remained unmolested in the Croft Acoustics (second era). Unless of course the customer requested custom upgrades, but essentially all of the Micro 25s, Rs, Series 7s, Rs, were consistent from 2007 onwards.
M
Impossible to prove one way or the other, but I very much doubt that that is true. It had not been the case before.
If you add the word "nominally" in there somewhere, you would be on far safer ground.
paulfromcamden
Baffled
Photo of Micro 25 Basic I used to own.
Photo of Micro 25 Basic from the Dr John Cheap Tube Audio blog.
Photo of Micro 25 Basic from the Dr John Cheap Tube Audio blog.