Monday, May 30, 2011

Tech Talk - Masco MA-17 (1946)


Masco Amplifiers were largely a mail order brand available through LaMasco heads with custom speaker cabinets or make a combination amp cabinet. They amps often have multiple speaker outputs to accomodate a variety of speaker combinations. The microphone input is perfect for a high impedance mic such as the JT-30.

MASCO stands for Mark Alan Sampson Company and the amps were produced on Long Island, NY during the 1940s and 1950s. The circuits in Masco amps were often incuded in SAMS photofacts and appear regularly on eBay.

These are almost always amps with two 6V6 tubes and older preamp tubes.
1x10" LANEY model "Disco Cabinet" (closed back)

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