Dynacord K-50 Favorit I 112 Combo

German-built Dynacord K-50 Favorit I Combo which probably dates to the early 70's. It's very heavy and upright-standing with tilt legs. It is a 4-channel hybrid amp that uses transistor preamps combined with a tube output section. I sold it (baad move) in '96 so I don't remember clearly, but I think it uses a pair of EL-34's and an ECC-81/12AT7 phase inverter/driver. It has Tele and DIN inputs/outputs on the front and rear panels. Each of the four input channels has concentric gain and EQ controls, and there is also a master section in the center along with a level meter.
There are (at least) two 1/4" speaker output jacks, and I see, to remember it being switchable to drive 4, 8, 16 ohm loads (not sure, but maybe it also had a 100v line carrier output).

I used it mostly with a single humbucker 80's jap strat. The guitar playing was loud and fat with lots of dynamics and this amp did a good (although strange) job of it. Sometimes I used it with a pair of open-back Celestion 12" 30w boxes, sometimes by itself. I didn't always use pedals, but a Yamaha Tone Booster TB-01 (also impossible to find these days.. mail me if you wanna sell one) helped a lot to add brightness and punch to the humbucker and transistor pre. For distortion I used a 70's Big Muff and a Boss Blues Driver. Now, without the pedals, I could bring the amp to distort, and man, talk about crazy distortion.. Not always useful, but sometimes fun. The sound would choke out completely as soon as I didn't play, making it sound a bit like a Twin with dying valves - say, a bit like the guitar sound of early Gang of Four. Clean sounds were good if I added a little Tone Booster to it. The output valves would start to sing if I played loud enough. Nice! This is not by any means a slick, nice sounding amp. It's a strange animal, not useful for all playing styles, but still, I liked it. It had soul. How stupid was i to sell it. Can't find one anywhere.. As if it never existed.

Always worked fine and seemed to be able to withstand extremely low impedance (I used it with the build in 12" Dynacord 16 ohm and two 12" Celestion 8 ohm's, and sometimes added a Selmer 18" 4 ohm.. This would be death for most amps.. But this one didn't stutter - well, it did, but it never broke, just sounded lovely crazy when I did this :)

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I like excentric things, and this was a way excentric amp. Just added it to the database here 'coz it wasn't here at all.