1976 Dunlap-Clarke Dreadnaught 500 Amplifier

1976 Dunlap-Clarke
Dreadnaught 500 Amplifier

Condition:  Excellent. In storage since the 1986.

Power:  250 watts per channel into 8 ohms, 300 watts
per channel @ 4 ohms.

Dimensions:  17-1/2” W (19” with faceplate), 7” H (with
feet), 16” D.

Weight:  50 lbs (approx.)

MSRP: $969

Asking Price: $750 plus $150 UPS packing
and shipping (local pickup acceptable)

Remarks Found Online:

• “These were very bullet
  proof amps made during the mid/late 70's. Very powerful, all doubled their
  power as the load halved, pure complimentary design, which was very rare
  at the time, very open, transparent and neutral in tonal balance, very
  un-solid state sounding. I owned a 500 which was supposed to be 250
  watts/chan 8 ohms. My unit had been tweaked it so it was more like 380
  watts/channel.”


• “I sold the products in
  the New England area in the mid 1970s. The owners were actually doctors (
  Ron Dunlap and Mel Clarke ). Ron developed the amps to be tanklike because
  he owned Dayton Wright electrostatic speakers which were very difficult to
  drive. We used them at the store I worked at to drive the Koss Model 1
  electrostat and also to really light up DQ-10s. Great guys who built great
  gear.”


• “Dr. Ron Dunlap as a
  serious hobby designed a series of amps under the name Dunlap-Clarke, out
  of the Boston area (Watertown), called the Dreadnaught. This was in the
  late 70s. There was the brutish 1000, the smaller but still massive 500,
  and the smaller, but still impressively large 250. These amps were mich
  liked by members of the Boston Audio Society and were a great choice to
  feed early power hungry pigs like AR 9s and Dahlquist DQ-10s.”