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What's up with Hiwatt in the USA? On the start page it says "Hiwatt Amplification has stopped operations until further notice".

http://www.hiwatt.com/

My apologies if this is old news.

Very cool! 5845 here! It lives a comfortable life in the rehearsal studio, since I don't have the heart to take it out anymore. Hence my recent interest in S-W, thinking that a S-W P.A. 200 will be a decent substitute (possibly after modification). At least it has better handles than the Hiwatt. :) ...

Ah, interesting! (Meanwhile I just took a look in the registry and found DR203 and DR112 entries with S/N in the 900 range, thereby proving that they existed at least back in 1970.) Anyway, if there's actually no real Hiwatt link, I'm more inclined to think that someone deliberately at some point tr...

I agree that it's beyond doubt that the amp was built by S-W. However it seems unlikely to me that the name is a coincident. Component date codes would have been helpful, but I'd say the amp was built in 1969 or later, in which case a London based amp manufacturer must surely have been aware of Hiwa...

Hi all, first time poster here. My apologies if this has been covered already (I didn't find anything with a search, neither here, nor at hiwatt.org). What's your take on the below "Hiwatt": Hiwatt P.A. 150 Like the author points out, it's nearly identical to a Simms-Watts P.A. 100 Apart f...