my old Orion 250-hcca

[chillin 10+ year member]

well I was asking about my amp almost a year ago and helotaxi was saying something wasnt adding up because it is gold and is an hcca. I guess they didnt come that way. So now that I got a camera and the amp is out of my car maybe someone can tell me if this is some weird model.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1661/dsc00003qp8.jpg

first time uploading a pic so i hope this works

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[chillin 10+ year member]

 

[BassBallin]

ive never seen a gold one

 

[chillin 10+ year member]

yeah helotaxi said orion made gold amps, but it was not the hcca version. I bought it used about 5 years ago so I have no idea what the deal is

 

[frzninvt 10+ year member]

The gold plated versions were the "GS" line. The 250 HCCA equivalent would have been the GS-300 but it is not 1 ohm stable it is essentially a 2150SX with premium hand picked and hand matched parts then it was fine tuned by the Senior Engineers at Orion at the time.

I can't view the photos, and I can't view the link from here at work but the amp should be marked with the GS model on it. The heat sink could have also been gold plated by someone at some point if it does not bear the GS model number on it.

I will look at the photo later when I get home.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Odd. That looks like it was a special one-off. Hang on to that amp.

 

[chillin 10+ year member]

Thanks for the info. I will be holding onto it.

 

[SilverSquared 10+ year member]

Its not the same as the HCCAs, its fairly weaker, but....the case itself is worth more than 3-250 HCCAs. lol.

That looks like a plated 1st gen. Not original. Have you seen the insides? Are they gold as well? The 1st gen of any HCCA was pretty much a flaw. They are not nearlt as strong as the 2nd and 3rd generation HCCAs

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

either way you have a pretty valueble amp there. I would try to take some pics of the inside and post them, you will get alot more info if you do.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Doing a little research, it looks like that is a gen 1 250 HCCA that has been plated. Still a cool amp.