Heritage Grandchild (500 series 670?!)

They just posted some demos. Would love to hear what people who have experience with the 19 inch recreations have to say. I imagine it's not very close, but it sounds pretty good as it's own thing.

Dang thing sounds great! I am wondering if it would be best to have a separate 500 series rack for just this unit.

So, it is really not $1000 a channel, because rack space (the power supply) costs money too.  Looks like they are using Heritage's 4 space rack, which is excellent!

All the louder parts sounded better. Lol.

I just listened streaming to my tv, so don’t know what I can actually hear…but it sounded pretty good to me.

Another good option is the IGS Panzer which can supply up to 420mA per slot. Designed with tube based 500 series units in mind because IGS also make a few of those. Quiet, linear supply, highly recommended.

Ya, definitely needs better level matching, which highlights the fact that it has no output gain/trim. I just realized they did share uncompressed dry and wet files in the YouTube description so the demos can be level matched. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Du3oymgpLzL9SCpjsCEbVNbvKIBXqlNo

I have a pair of Anamod AM660's if you want me to run the same files through.  

Leaving the specifics to you, I'd be particularly keen to hear:

1) Examples for which an *authentic* (e.g. an OG or legit full rack clone from HA or Stam) is famous for.

2) Some off label uses that might not traditionally be considered for the Fairchild just to see how flexible this particular beast is.

I'd also *especially* need to hear your review and see on your future video that sidechain filter back and forth in its two frequency positions and the roll off at the higher frequency setting for each relevant track.

3 positions total, which is three unseats from the chassis and 3 reseats per clip.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but not doing so would be an incomplete review for TapeOp.

Especially because currently that's what no one is doing. Understandably so because it's ridiculously difficult to do so.

I realize that will require you to remove and then reseat the device each and every time. I'm be especially concerned about wear and tear on the card if I had to pop it out and then for every single sidechain flick.

Fairchilds excel at being able to compress a lot without sounding over-squashed, so I’d love to hear the Heritage at more extreme settings. I’ve come across a lot of units that can come fairly close with subtle settings but they start to fall apart when pushed hard.

Just to be clear in case folks missed the correction from earlier, the unit in question actually uses 200mA per slot, so 400mA is the TOTAL consumption.

Where would you put that gain control?

In a purely relative way, looking at the pictures I’ve seen the price tag of £1750 seems a bit steep to me for what is clearly a couple or three hundred quids worth of components.

Yes I get the whole thing about time to construct, gov taxes etc.

But still there’s wasn’t much R&D by definition of what it is.

There appears to be a “wow it’s a Fairchild” tax on this product.

I’m sure it sounds very good and it sure looks good, I just think the asking price is very high.

I only payed twice that price (plus £500) for my full size point to point - hand wired - Phoenix Mastering plus - running on 350v NOS tubes and is stereo not mono.