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Author Topic: I got an amp for the home theatre! Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-18-2005 07:34 PM                     What do you think of this? KinTek stuff: a KT-1003 stereo processor, a Digimate 1100 quad amplifier, and a KT-1045 monitor/exciter power supply. I looked thru the manuals, and figured I'd find manuals. Alas... No manuals.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 10-18-2005 07:39 PM                     Nothing great there, unless you got it for free, and maybe not even then .... I may have a manual; have to check. Is that the processor that needed an external PC board (had a D9 connector)for set up?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 10-18-2005 08:13 PM                        Wow, do I ever remember Kintek. Unreliable, not as good audio as Dolby and cost more as well. Louis  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-18-2005 08:19 PM                     Hmm. I've heard KinTek stories from our tech. My theatre has a bunch of them, but are being replaced projector by projector. Trust me. This amplifier will never be overloaded in my house.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-18-2005 11:51 PM                     Crapaplex Odeon used TONS of those Kintek units for their mono houses.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-19-2005 06:49 AM                     What is the BIG problem with this equipment? John W: I do need a manual. Another question: When were these units built?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-19-2005 02:56 PM                     [QUOTEWhat is the BIG problem with this equipment? [/QUOTE] At least 97.698% of all the requipment Kintek prodiced has died more than once.... The worst of all were the exciter supplies! I reccomend that you fuse your speakers! I once put one of those amps out of its misery at the rifle range . Mark  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 10-20-2005 07:38 AM                     Sorry, Bruce. I checked the manual pile, but no KT-1003. I do have a KT-800 processor and a KT-60 subwoofer manual, which you are welcome to if they are close.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-20-2005 07:55 AM                     Thank you for looking, John. I'll keep looking. KinTek: Bad soldering? Bad designs? Underrated parts? Whats the real problem?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-20-2005 08:15 AM                     quote: Bruce McGee KinTek: Bad soldering? Bad designs? Underrated parts? Whats the real problem? All of the above really. They were either a part of DBX or owned by DBX or it might have been the other way round... what ever it was we had just as much trouble with DBX back when I worked in HI-Fi repair in the early 70's.... MArk  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-20-2005 09:48 AM                     I beleieve they were all part of Unisync back then those kintek digmate plug in amps were a marvel of engineering when they worked  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-20-2005 06:37 PM                     Gord, You mean that we'd marvel at them IF THEY WORKED..... very little stuff that company produced actually worked right out of the box.... I can remember one friend that worked for UA and had installed a bunch of the center/surround units in a complex and only two out of 8 worked. Mark  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-20-2005 06:39 PM                     I look forward to seeing what this set-up will do. If it dies, well, look what I have invested in it. The home theatre sound system basically sucks at this point. All consumer stereo equipment. Has never sounded very good, and really sounds bad when projecting stereo prints. Has a very hollow sound. I'm slowly aquiring sound loops. I got a 6K loop the other day. I also have a new 'slit' lens. New one has a very fine slit compared to the old original. EDIT: Mark, you replied while I was writing. Reminds me of old early solid state TV's. Our repair shop went thru a spell of new TV's dead out of the box. If nothing else, I can troubleshoot the KinTeks... if a manual pops up for it...  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-20-2005 08:10 PM                     There was a manual in one of the Cineplex booths in the Boise/Nampa area a number of years back. Perhaps Monte could nose around and see if its still there.... Mark  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-21-2005 02:25 AM                     Yea, I think that I know were these manuals are since our storerooms are loaded with these Kintek monsters that were taken out when we converted all of the mono houses to stereo. I'll let you know when I get there Friday and pass the note down the pipe. thx-Monte  |  IP: Logged

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