The reason I have the AL-1500 is because it takes less than 60 watts of
drive for 1500 watts on most bands, this save running the modern 100
watt exciters flat out. Your right no one pays 3500 for it, more like
2600. As you mention below it is nice to have the headroom, better to
run the 8877 at less rated max power than run a pair of 3-500's flat
out.
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Of those choices, I'd go with the AL-80B or AL-572. I've had both and
both were decent amps, although I had some trouble with the 572. If you
go that route, I'd wire the transformed to get about 2.5 kV HV, rather
than the normal 2.8-3 kV, because the Chinese 572Bs don't like 3 kV.
Nobody pays $3500 for a AL-1500 or AL-1200. Whatever someone pays,
they're not paying for the extra 200 watts, they're paying for the extra
500 or 1000 watts, whether for headroom or actual output power.
R Atkins wrote:
> Without getting into the "why would anybody pay $3500 for the
AL-1200/1500 for 200 watts more?" questions, let me ask...
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> Why would anybody pay $500 more for the AL-800 than the AL-572 when it
has slightly lower power output and the tubes cost 9 times as much?
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> .. and why would anybody pay only $100 less for 1000 rather than a
13000 watt amp when the tubes cost 4 times as much?
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> I'm sure I'm overlooking something here, but not sure what.
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> Thanks!
> Rusty
> K0FE
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