{"id":62,"date":"2013-04-07T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rerunelectronicscom.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/07\/il-binson"},"modified":"2018-11-03T09:06:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T09:06:02","slug":"il-binson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Il Binson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/binson-front-3\u2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"574\" height=\"523\" src=\"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/binson-front-3\u2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2018\" data-link=\"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/?attachment_id=2018\" class=\"wp-image-2018 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/binson-front-3\u2022.jpg 574w, http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/binson-front-3\u2022-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><i>Built for Zach Van Hoozer<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Il Binson began it&#8217;s life as a Binson HiFi 20 amplifier. \u00a0When it arrived at Rerun it was in a very poor condition&#8211; the output transformer was blown, the speaker was destroyed, and it had numerous cosmetic problems including a ripped grille cloth. \u00a0As Zach was looking for something with a bit more power than the original offered anyhow, we decided to go for bigger output tubes as well as installing a reverb and tremolo.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Although Italians are famous for their temperamental behavior, this amp really fought the changes in a dramatic fashion! \u00a0Probably the most important change was removing a large section of the back panel to create a better airflow &#8212; the new KT77s are cathode biased which means they run hot. \u00a0Other difficulties included finding a good spot in the small cabinet for the reverb tank, and working out a tremolo circuit that was slow and deep enough without robbing too much of the natural sound and volume.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">All in all, this is a great size and sound, definitely vintage with some modern touches. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built for Zach Van Hoozer \u00a0 Il Binson began it&#8217;s life as a Binson HiFi 20 amplifier. \u00a0When it arrived at Rerun it was in a very poor condition&#8211; the output transformer was blown, the speaker was destroyed, and it had numerous cosmetic problems including a ripped grille cloth. \u00a0As Zach was looking for something &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/?p=62\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Il Binson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instrument-amplifiers","post_format-post-format-image"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"rerun","author_link":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/author\/rerun"},"featured_img":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/binson-front-3\u2022-300x273.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/binson-front-3\u2022.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/?cat=5\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Instrument Amplifiers<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Instrument Amplifiers<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 13 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 2013-04-07","modified":"Updated on 2018-11-03"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 2013-04-07 16:08","modified":"Updated on 2018-11-03 09:06"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papHjQ-10","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rerun-electronics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}