Dover DA-50 demo

FourT6and2 said:
There is some behind-the-scenes drama regarding this. He worked at Hiwatt, including on the Super-Hi project with Fortin. I think he then left to start Dover and work with Fortin on the Sigil. That didn't go well. Then left Dover, smoked a boatload of crack and decided to start Valhalla, where he's trying to sell Hiwatt clones for $15,000.
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FourT6and2 said:
There is some behind-the-scenes drama regarding this. He worked at Hiwatt, including on the Super-Hi project with Fortin. I think he then left to start Dover and work with Fortin on the Sigil. That didn't go well. Then left Dover to start Valhalla, where he's trying to sell Hiwatt clones for $15,000.
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Wonder what the drama is/was?
 
2dor said:
IIRC it was the "standby" issue with the Fortin Sigil.
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I do remember that, but was that a design flaw, or build flaw? I know they were made in the same factory as the Dover DA20, and Victory, no?
 
napalmdeath said:
I do remember that, but was that a design flaw, or build flaw? I know they were made in the same factory as the Dover DA20, and Victory, no?
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Not sure it ever got to the point of a public conclusion on what the root cause was (design or build) but I do recall a lot of folks crying out over it.
 
2dor said:
Not sure it ever got to the point of a public conclusion on what the root cause was (design or build) but I do recall a lot of folks crying out over it.
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Oh yeah, that one blew up all over the internet with the first initial case. The buyer went into full meltdown mode over it, and alot of back and forth with Fortin. It's interesting though, the Dover DA20 did the same thing on standby. They have bleed too.
 
Maybe it's been mentioned already: the guy (Michael Mayer) who owned 75% of Dover Amps is involved with those high priced furniture pieces at Valhalla Amplification.

Maybe someone can get their Dover fix with a Valhalla? :scared:
 
dooredge said:
Maybe it's been mentioned already: the guy (Michael Mayer) who owned 75% of Dover Amps is involved with those high priced furniture pieces at Valhalla Amplification.

Maybe someone can get their Dover fix with a Valhalla? :scared:
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Did you see the prices? Good lord..
 
napalmdeath said:
Did you see the prices? Good lord..
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LOL, I did. Someone here posted awhile back about the Vahalla amps & prices. Ridiculous.

I found it interesting, when Dover closed up shop, it's net assets were around $25k. Not sure how they couldn't make Dover fly let alone how MM is going to have any real success with the Vahalla brand at such an insane price point.

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
 
FourT6and2 said:
There is some behind-the-scenes drama regarding this. He worked at Hiwatt, including on the Super-Hi project with Fortin. I think he then left to start Dover and work with Fortin on the Sigil. That didn't go well. Then left Dover to start Valhalla, where he's trying to sell Hiwatt clones for $15,000.
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$15k? think I saw one amp was $20k :ROFLMAO:
 
WizardSouth-JP said:
the website seems to have vanished - kinda like the spoke from the weed he was puffin on
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Website is still up...

Here's a photo of one of those $20,000 amps lol...

Looks VERY close to current Hiwatts. He built my first Super-Hi 50. Looks 95% identical.

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Imagine spending 20k on an amp and you get modern production components rather than discontinued vintage mojo parts, paralleled resistors because he didn’t have the right value on hand, and clipped component leads floating in the chassis.
 
mnemonic said:
Imagine spending 20k on an amp and you get modern production components rather than discontinued vintage mojo parts, paralleled resistors because he didn’t have the right value on hand, and clipped component leads floating in the chassis.
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Good thing they banned Larry or he'd probably up his prices to $15k and extend lead times to 1 years since demand would increase substantially at that price.😉
 
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