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Levinson 33H buzzing on standby

Hi All,
I just noticed that my pair of Levinson 33H emits a buzzing sound from the tweeter when it is on Standby (blinking red).

When the amps are turned on, the buzzing sound goes away and is replaced with a slight hissing sound.

When I connect the speakers to my Levinson 433, there is no buzzing...so I'm guessing its not my power/equipment that is causing the problem.

I took the amps into my local service shop and they are telling me that its "normal" behaviour.

Does anyone (perhaps someone with 33Hs) confirm this is normal?

Thanks, Ray
raysam

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renjy651
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Levinson 33H amp uses phillips capacitors. Also these inferior phillips capacitors were used in 331/332/333/334/335/336.

Levinson 33H uses four filter capacitors at 60000uf at 100V and two regulator capacitors at 1900uf/150V. When these phillips caps go bad you will get buzzing,distortion and amp shutting down etc. I recommend replacing these filter caps with cornell dubilier cap at 76000uf/100V. Three inches in diameter and 5.8 inches long. For regulator caps at 1900uf/250V. 1.39 inches in diameter and 4 inches long. You will hear a huge improvement in sound. And using a higher value filter capacitor helps the cap to run cooler.
renjy651
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Just for the record the original Levinson 33H Filter Capcitors were made by Philips part# 3186FH603U075DPA2. 60000uf/75V.(2.5 inches in diameter and 5.6 inches long)
Cornell dubilier makes these caps at 2.5 inches in diameter. I recommend either 62000uf/75V also 68000uf/75V both very expensive since these caps are 2.5 inches in diameter.
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