Anybody remember G.A.S.

When I was going to college I worked at a dealer part-time who had the G.A.S. line. It was heavily promoted and sold well although I didn't care for the sound,(too strident and fatigueing). I sold a lot of the GAS Grandson amps.This was so long ago that I can't remember all the names in the line. They all had strange names. I think there was a Thalia preamp and I'm not certain but I think one of the bigger amps was called Ampzilla.Then there was Son of Ampzilla. I think they had a moving coil cartridge that was pretty good.I think it was called Black Beauty, unless that was from someone else. My memory has faded a little after 25 years and then there was about 15 years where I got away from the audio scene completely. The equipment was well built and looked nice,though.I believe GAS stood for Great American Sound Co.

James Bongiorno is back in business and using the GAS name again. His new amp is called Ampzilla 2000 and supposedly sounds pretty good. I think it is a straight Class B design, not running in Class A bias at any point of operation. As such, it should run pretty cool, even when standing on the throttle. Sean
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Ampzilla, Son of Ampzilla, Grandson of Ampzilla. Thaedra, Thoebe, Black Beauty, Charlie the Tuner and Godzilla.........I have one of their posters that looks like Star Wars except it says Stereo Wars and instead of spacecraft it has Great American Sound gear shooting down Mitsubishi, Denon and ARC gear....The new amp is a four pole design and sounded fine used at the CES last year....