700 series II is great amp
A friend of mine still has his
Regards, Ron
The Mattes was made in Chicago.
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tinevalen
the first amplifier i recall as being 100wpc and over, or (then) "super-amp" material was the Mattes SSP200, a 100 wpc pwer amplifier. i believe within a year of it's release Mattes produced the SSA 200 which was an integrated amplifier. I owned an SSA200 and ran a pair of Altec-Lansing Flamenco's (see Bogator's avatar). It was a very good-looking piece of equipment, with a very coplex control panel. :blink::blink:I haven't been able to find a picture of any Mattes components online, and even mention of it is hard to come by. there is some discussion at this link.
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/arc...p/t-25298.html
and roger russel of mcintosh fame also has a review of one for sale at
http://www.roger-russell.com/magrevhf.htm
The factory was not to far from school. One I stopped over and talked to the owner and designer of the Mattes amp. I was a very interesting, the amp operated class A up to 15 w then switched over to class AB. HK used this concept in HK Ciation 16.