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Velodyne DD15 - worth repairing the plate amp?

The amp in my 2008 Velodyne DD15 is dead as a door nail. 

How good is this old marvel compared to today's offerings?

Worth investing another $500 (to have amp repaired, incl roundtrip shipping, tax, etc)? Or just use as passive sub?

How does it compete to modern subs, for example SBS SB-2000 or SB-3000 (both under $1k pre owned)?

kraftwerkturbo
jazzguy43
32 posts
 

try the folks in new jersey, they are velodyne repair wizards!!! and very reasonably priced as well.

rwwear
2,848 posts
 

The DD-15 is still a great sub. I own two. I recently repaired one of mine myself. I ended up having to replace the amp which costs around $370.00 from Velodyne in Germany plus about $180.00 for shipping. I had replaced all of the caps on the main board but it didn’t fix the problem.

The DD-15 was $5000.00 new and still competes with the best available. REL is not a real sub IMO. They don't even go down to 20hz.

You can’t just replace the plate amp with an off the shelf version as someone suggested. The Velodyne amp is 1350 watts plus eq and much more is involved.

If you contact Velodyne speak to Lorenzo.
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Velodyne Acoustics GmbH | Alsterkrugchaussee 435 | 22335 Hamburg | GERMANY
Tel.: 0049 - (0)40 - 238 307 880 | Fax: 0049 - (0)40 - 533 204 59
www.velodyneacoustics.com
 

 

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m-db
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@rwwear     [Velodyne Acoustics GmbH | Alsterkrugchaussee 435 | 22335 Hamburg | GERMANY Tel.: 0049 - (0)40 - 238 307 880 | Fax: 0049 - (0)40 - 533 204 59.}

Terrific first hand information.  Your's is the first I've heard from anyone who has dealt with Velodyne GmbH directly. Interesting to have idea about shipping cost. Thanks for posting.

Did the plate they provided appear to be new old stock or repaired? 

jr19
48 posts
 

the amp man repaired my 2011 DD 12+. i sent him the amp plate. he made repairs. works great. if you could find a DD 15+....... never mind...$800 bucks......

kraftwerkturbo OP
310 posts
 
crustycoot Have quote from EBC NJ, but long wait (currently as short as 6 weeks, but ’warning’ is "up to 12 weeks". Their cost $320 (incl return shipping,excl tax and outbound shipping), $360 total. Amp Man $350 plus tax plus outbound shipping ($400 total).

Looks like the 2 small caps on the incoming power board leaked out. Not sure if other components got damaged by it, or if only the 2 caps need to be replaced, or maybe the entire small board. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18LVto77k__xPTrGlQ4Q3esq5PzzkAk5a/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1TsCafd4P1z3w5DEDdw_B3MWv48PMd3/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZKaSQHnQC_jouzuFT03W9LzfpeVrpU_S/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cR_o3tYEfWqLq3c8pqSGbQOu3eIMXhYL/view?usp=sharing

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