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Hafler 220a

Anyone familiar with this amp? Is this essentially a 220 or really a new model.

I ask for two reasons. I used to own a Hafler DH 200 and liked the sound, so I am thinking of getting another with an eye toward modding in the future. However, and this brings up the second point, I am somewhat skeptical about 'newer' hafler amps. It seems like these are really geared toward a professional setting or even musicians. This worries me because very often the amp sound for a HT and the amp a musician uses at a gig is really a different beast (or so I understand). So I really have no interest in something that is essentially a pretty Peavey, I would be very interested in a version of the original 220.

I checked the forum records and it seems that no one has ever written about this amp before. So hopefully this isn't a dead subject.
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jedinite24
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Did the Hafler 220a amps come with a face plate and rack handles? On another popular auction site I saw a Hafler DH-220 with the 220a on a face plate with rack handles. This face plate didn't look like the add-ons I've seen previously where the face plate and rack handles got screwed on.

I enjoyed the following Hafler amps: DH-220, XL-280, and DH-500.

The later one I really want to try is the Hafler 9505.
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zydo
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The original 220 is a great little amp. I still have one. I bought it in about 1984. I still use it from time to time. They come up fairly often. You should be able to get one fairly cheap if you wanted to.
rodman99999
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That's correct Mofi- K for kit and A for assembled. I was the Hafler dealer in Winter Park, Florida, when they first got rolling. My customers always had me do the assembly, with my little tweeks added. I miss Dynaco & Hafler both. Of course- neither would be the same without David.
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mofimadness
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I was a Hafler dealer back in the day and I'm pretty sure that the DH-220A was the factory "a"ssembled unit and a DH220K was the "k"it. Same amp, but one was in kit form and one was already built. That's the way I remember it anyway.
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