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Ferrograph Amp

yes I remember them well. Well made amp, if my memory right, when you record on tape, to make more gain you turn volume control up. which is do have negative effect if you dont want more sound. I dont think it same animal as your quad. The amp I do have strong money in sound terms is Sugden A21, class A amp. Not a lot of output but the inky blackness that that comes out is fantasic. You need speakers easy to drive or last I listen to one with Rodgers BBC monitors LS35a close up was memorys you dont forget.
 
Ferrograph F307.

f307-fullview.jpg


Yes, very good integrated 25wpc amp.

Not a rarity, I have a Mk 1 and a Mk
2, I have no idea what the differences
between them are, sorry.

If in gwo and a tidy wooden cased
version I would say 30ish UKP

Specs / Info fyi...

http://www.ferrograph.info/pages/hifipage.htm

http://www.ferrograph.info/pages/f307spec.htm
 
Yep, I'll dive in with a thumbs-up too. Very nice amplifier - sounds good and is well made. Strangely overlooked for some reason and, as Darmok says, about £30 is normal for a good one.

I'd grab it.
 
Brian, we must stop meeting like this :D

I knew the amp from my slavish reading of HiFi Sound magazine, but didn't get to use and hear one until the end of its life around 1977. The mk2 was a pleasant little amp with no "solid state nasties" as I recall. I don't know how it would compare today though, but if it's cheap (under £40) and in good nick, I'd take a punt on it for its looks as much as anything else, as I suspect the controls and switches will have gone a bit noisy and some of the caps may be out of spec now.
 
O, I don't want it , Dave, and I don't need it. I just saw it and was interested. I remember seeing it it magazines when it was a new product. At the time I daily used a Ferrograph tape recorder with the same style front panel - lovely machine. No, it wasn't mine. I was a technician in a University Physics Department - we had a few Ferrograph Tape Recorders - we had more Tektronix Oscilloscopes

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/scopes/tek.html#Oscilloscopes

Beautiful machines - all valves! We wheeled them round on their custom made prams.
 
I bought a Ferrograph F307 a couple of months ago - 40 quid I believe. It's immaculate and rather stylish.

As to sound, it's a bit vague and warm in comparison to modern amps but that is the way I've found most old SS amps to be. As to valve based vintage amps like the Radford STA-15 I've just acquired, well, that's a different class altogether.
 
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