CPM Sound Equipment amps (anybody knows about them?)

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CPM Sound Equipment amps (anybody knows about them?)

Post by teteitor » Wed Jul 03, 2019 5:19 pm

Hi!

This is the only place where I found something about this 'brand' of amps, in one link they talked about it but... I have another different model!!

I received as a present in Australia, and really love it... it's just MASSIVE. Checking the BIAS and doing the setup, we realised that the output transformer runs at 820V, and the preamp is solid state, so makes me suspect about a MusicMan Design, but still I couldn't found nothing.

You can see attached some photos, and the amp schematics too, makes me suspect that maybe CPM is a German place were they copy or restore from some models, like Hovercraft amps nowadays for example.

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Post by CPM guy » Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:26 am

Hi !

I am Uve and i can tell you something about the CPM Sound Equipment Hardware, because i was involved in this Project,
almost from the beginning to the End .

CPM means Club for Progressive Music - CPM.
It was located in Erlangen, Germany. Erlangen is a town about 20km north of Nuremberg, Bavaria.

It was opend by some Music mad Students in 1967 to suport the new 'progressive' style of Music,
not only (but mostly) Rock, but also others like Jazz, ...
It was located in the middle of the Students Part of Erlangen and began with a kind of Music Pub, every day different Musicstyles.
A lot of interested Musicians meet ther, foundet was the Project by a Guy named Gunter Tanhäuser.

Very early they noticed, that there is no low price Equipment for music loving Starters and they begin to develope
Speaker Boxes for their own Bands.

About 1970 they moved to the new Location in Füther Str. - an old House including the Music Pub and the Manufacturing of all kind of Music Equipment - Amps, Speaker Cabinets for Music and Bands, Mixing Tables . . .

In the last step they moved to Eltersdorf, a suburban Part of Erlangen with the Manufacturing.

All the stuf, they produced was own developed and own build. No Repair, restauration, copy of anything.
The Developer behind the Project was an Engeneer named Bernd Joos, a genious Man, died mutch too jung in the 1990's.

I worked for this Project from 1968 to the End of this 'Company' in 1980 as the Man for the Wooden Part.
If you knock on the Case ot the Amplyfier, you knock on a Part, build by me !

Hope i can help you,

Best regards from still in Erlangen living - Uve

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Re: CPM Sound Equipment amps (anybody knows about them?)

Post by CorporateDisguise » Sun Feb 28, 2021 5:40 am

Wow! That is really cool? So CPM started as an organization to help bring together musicians? Sounds like a really cool company, doing good things for the right reasons.

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Post by Scout » Sun Feb 28, 2021 6:17 am

“ Man for the wooden part” , :-* that.

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Post by Singlebladepickup » Sun Feb 28, 2021 6:38 am

I liked "much too Jung", although that's a sad tale. Pretty cool to hear from someone involved.

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Re: CPM Sound Equipment amps (anybody knows about them?)

Post by 46346 » Thu Mar 04, 2021 1:45 am

amazing!
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Post by DeathJag » Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:36 am

Holy shit! Incredible!

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Post by fisonic » Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:20 am

Wow, thats got some iron. The blendable treble/bass input & EQ section has a definite HiWatt flavour. Nice!

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