Heritage Grandchild (500 series 670?!)

Cool but why? And honestly I’ll bet one of the biggest issues is it doesn’t run cool at all.

The only reason I can see for this is a dealer, in a rack with a UL approved PSU you have a UL approved 670 clone, now how many public buildings in CA need a 670?.

1/4 of the gain reduction tubes. Big part of the actual action.

The attempt doesn't bother me at all. I'd go into it not expecting it to sound like a real Fairchild...but my interest is piqued.

The marketing spin: we reduced the weight. expense of new tubes and heat, see we are geniuses, well in the Apple sense at least.

Honestly I don’t have a problem except the idea of a name implying a Fairchild. In my eyes this trend of using names that imply a Classic, but really don’t have much to do with the original is just opening one’s self up to internet ridicule. It was. grand idea but any fairly intelligent Child can tell it’s not a Fairchild.

I wonder how it compares to the Anamod 660 - 500 series unit. It can still be found in the used market.

Heritage Pricing on a couple of their items doesn't make sense to me, and I wonder what I'm missing?. Asking 10k USD for their 670 puts it out of reach for all but those thinking about the Unfairchild, which I would think is a very small market of potential buyers to begin with. So to get even 50% of that small market share at best to cover your R & D, overhead and make a worthwhile profit for your Company to justify the product development choice doesn't seem logical to me when I see dealers still sitting with their original stock order of them at those retail prices. Even the less costly 5.5k Heritage 660 demo model with 1k off of the list on sale for 4.5k at VK is still sitting there month after month etc.... it just appears to me they've priced themselves out of too much of the market , but I must be missing something.

-----So while 2k is within a larger number of consumer budgets.....I'd think the number of buyers willing to pay 2k for a 500 series product is again much smaller and more discerning and the product will have to prove itself worth the price difference over average 500 series I don't see happening in volume........but maybe all my years as a musician for a living has me out of touch with just how many high income jobs there are out there with disposable hobbyist income,......yet all those sitting Heritage 670/660s at U.S. retail suggest to me otherwise...

Hunch and strictly a hunch, first 2 rack units at such different price points get confusing, second, look at how the Warm CL1B is being criticized, with this it’s “well we had to make a bunch of compromises to physically fit and meet the power limitations of the 500 series format.” The part they won’t admit 500 series probably cut the street price by $500.

Man you would think I work for a manufacturer after reading that.

I doubt this makes much heat at all.

VPR alliance spec is a 130ma per rail.

medias.audiofanzine.com/files/api-vpr-500-spec-479213.pdf

Pretty sure that’s the original standard and API raised it within the last decade as it all got away from them. Anyway, the standard is only about what works in their racks or others that bother to get VPR approval, and we know that ship is long sailed….

Current is slightly over 200mA per rail per slot. So 200 is the figure to compare with 130, not 400. Sorry if the info provided is confusing. We will clarify this.