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| Pass X150.5 or Odyssey Stratos monos? Hifigeorge: but anything Odyssey that he ever mentioned is negative. This is incorrect, only the stereo’s that are made into monoblocks Klaus. The stereo’s amps I’ve said sound quite good if you search. This was after my friend who was going to ... | |
| Meridian G08 repair? jrun They’re getting old now and it uses a cheap dvd drive, sounds like the lasers shot. Just get a new drive and instal it, quite easy to do. Just the laser is cheaper but harder to do.https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p238005... | |
| INPUT/OUTPUT IMPEDANCE antho768 OP I don’t want to over think this, but I just pulled the trigger on a power amp rated at 10k(RCA) 15k(XLR) input impedance. Problem is I don’t know the output impedance of my pre/pro(Marantz av7705). The 7705 being solid state "should" b... | |
| Dedicated 20 amp circuit - Electrician laughed! put your hifi on a battery. it don’t get any better than that Not if there’s a nasty inverter involved, solar or battery, it can be worse as I found out, because the inverters are even worse than SMP’s for injecting nasty HF noise into your house... | |
| Vtl 5.5 series 1, David Berning TF-10 or Melos SHA-Gold? I owned a Melos SHA Gold it started to have problems. I was able to get it repaired by the original designer and then sold it.Today, I am not sure if it can be repaired if needed to be.It can be repaired.They had lots of problems with the " Por... | |
| How a pair of Mark Levinson ML2 stands with the best amps today ? Here is an very old shot of the ML3 I had to repair 200 W/channel at 8 ohms, 400 W/ch at 4 ohms, 800 W/ch at 2 ohms It opens up like a clam very thoughtful design for techs and you can power it up like that, it was so big it wouldn’t fit on my wo... | |
| How a pair of Mark Levinson ML2 stands with the best amps today ? Today's ML's don't have much feedback as the distortion specs show on the 534 and 536 poweramps. The the poweramps have input sensitivity that's almost 3v for full output this is a low gain amp, and distortion figures of 0.3%THD showing low feedb... | |
| WOULD IT BE DUMB TO BUY A MARK LEVINSON NO 23.5 Caps have been tested at 70 years old and still held up. It’s total BS to replace them unless they fail. I bet the repair shops love your money Georgie You've been sold a furphy.They dry out and loose capacity.And I don’t do repair shops. | |
| WOULD IT BE DUMB TO BUY A MARK LEVINSON NO 23.5 The engineers at MADRIGAL designed the 23.5 to last a LIFETIME. Which iN electronics terms is 50 YEARS. Sorry but that's a bit of BS they told you, for electro's to last that long .Cheers George | |
| WOULD IT BE DUMB TO BUY A MARK LEVINSON NO 23.5 George Meyer told me to do NOTHING to the amp unless it breaks. I wouldn't either, but the way you were talking sounded like you were going to. If you do then do as I said with the cap banks.The 23.5 also killed a MACINTOSH mc402 . The sound ... | |
| WOULD IT BE DUMB TO BUY A MARK LEVINSON NO 23.5 jeffvegas OP George Meyer for a 2 grand fix, If you do that, then for that price he’s replacing the electrolytic power supply caps (and all others). Get him to replace the (high esr) big power supply caps per channel with banks of many 105c low e... | |
| best budget amp/preamp for B&W 805 D3s petar3 OP I have only $1k budget for a new integrated amp. As I mentioned above, is in your price range new. And you can send it back after a good week of listening if not happy.https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/best-budget-amp-preamp-... | |
| How a pair of Mark Levinson ML2 stands with the best amps today ? Here’s lots of info on them https://www.marklev.com/2013/04/ The WTconcept resto site was a great to see one with dozens of HD pics gets a complete resto job done, http://www.wtconcept.com/levinsonml2/ but it closed down, even "WayBack Machine... | |
| How a pair of Mark Levinson ML2 stands with the best amps today ? I think the ML2’s over the Classe by quite a margin. The Classe uses Darlington output transistors combined driver/output, not great can’t be controlled as well, never really caught on in hiend audio. file:///C:/Users/georg/Downloads/Classe%20DR... | |
| best budget amp/preamp for B&W 805 D3s petar3 OP best budget amp/preamp for B&W 805 D3s Stereophile:"The B&W’s voltage sensitivity is specified as 88dB/2.83V/m; my estimate was slightly higher than this, at 88.4dB(B). The nominal impedance is 8 ohms; the solid trace in fig.1 r... |