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CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU!
You've just become the proud owner of the world's most musical power amplifier: The
Strategy 400™ Stereo. All of our efforts have been directed at making this a special piece of
equipment -- a fine hand-made musical instrument -- that we hope you'll enjoy and treasure
for many years to come. Your total satisfaction is our highest priority and we appreciate your
good word-of-mouth referrals. So when people compliment you on your sound, you can
smile knowingly and hopefully you'll tell them a bit about us.
VACUUM TUBE AUDIO
People who don't know about MESA/Boogie are usually surprised when they learn that we
make amplifiers using vacuum tubes. They think tubes are some obsolete relic of a primeval
electronic age, long ago faded from earth. And that's largely true-- but with two notable
exceptions: TV picture tubes and Audio.
Have you ever heard of a tube amp claiming to have "that great transistor sound"'? Neither
have we. So here's a clue that many knowledgeable types -- even the latest MOS-FET
designers -- hold good tube sound as the standard for comparison. And now, with the
introduction of the Strategy 400 Stereo, a new, higher level of musical performance has
been made available -- and at a very affordable price when compared to the few fabulously
expensive "esoteric" tube.
DESCRIPTION AND FEATURES
The Strategy 400 Stereo is a modern, all-tube power amplifier-hand-built in the musical
instrument tradition. Producing 200 watts of mid-band power-- the Strategy excels in
playback systems-especially home stereo--and is unequaled for musical instrument
performance including guitar, bass, keyboards and electronic drums. In all of these
applications the Strategy will deliver state-of-the-art performance and almost certainly sound
much better than whatever is presently being used. You will enjoy an outstanding musical
richness that is the result of year's of careful design and refinement spanning the range from
individual components to overall concept.
INPUT CONNECTORS
Each channel of the Strategy includes a 1/4 inch input jack plus a female 3-pin XLR
connector. The XLR is wired as an unbalanced input with pin 2 hot and pins 1 and 3
grounded. An additional 1/4 inch jack offers access to both channels simultaneously and is
labeled "Parallel Inputs A+B". Located on the rear deck of the chassis, this is a mono jack
with a built-in switch so that a single mono cable will drive both channels of the amplifier. It is
vital when using this jack that both channels be connected to separate speaker loads or
damage to the output tubes and/or transformers may result. You can listen to each channel
individually by using the Standby switches although a slight distortion may occur when
using the Parallel Input Jack if one channel is operating and the other channel is standing
by. When both channels are ON, this slight distortion will go away entirely.
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