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| My Amp is Broken - Not Sure What to Do - Any Recommendations? "Do you guys think it would alter the sound to replace the 3281D and 1302D Thermal Trak transistors with NJL3281DG (NPN) NJL1302DG (PNP) Thermal Trak transistors, and do you think the work to match the output devices would be difficult or highly i... | |
| My Amp is Broken - Not Sure What to Do - Any Recommendations? johnsonwu, cool! | |
| My Amp is Broken - Not Sure What to Do - Any Recommendations? Ouch! The government regulates support for equipment, but sometimes even that ends up being ignored. A manufacturer is supposed to stock enough spares to last X years depending upon the product. Stereos are likely about 3 years. Near the end of tu... | |
| Big vintage amps worth paying for and keeping for a long time Spellcheck got me, it didn't like hording and changed it to horsing.... | |
| Big vintage amps worth paying for and keeping for a long time Any old amp should be checked for snubbers. If there is no snubber circuit for the bridge rectifiers then they should be replaced with soft recovery rectifiers. Beyond that, finding repair parts can be difficult to pretty much if not impossible. T... | |
| My Amp is Broken - Not Sure What to Do - Any Recommendations? Look, I have B&W 801M’s with all caps in series with the speakers bypassed with Audyn True Copper Max caps. Thiel CS-7 speakers, Paradigm Studio Reference 100 V2’s Ellis Audio 1801’s, KEF Reference 105s I have had Quad ELS57s, Acoustat 3300’s ... | |
| My Amp is Broken - Not Sure What to Do - Any Recommendations? Oh, there is one other option I could suggest. Vandersteens are not the most articulate speakers out there, so you can probably procrastinate doing a bridge rectifier mod to it, but there is a PS Audio 200C amplifier on eBay right now. I think he ... | |
| My Amp is Broken - Not Sure What to Do - Any Recommendations? Parts go obsolete, I've had to run down a lot of obsolete parts, some companies have made products using discontinued parts, knowing before their production run that the parts had been discontinued! If you really liked that amp, I'd contact Roy Mo... | |
| The "how many reviews it got" rule Here is the thing, you give an item a bad review, and you implicitly insult people who went out and bought one. They get upset, regardless how spot on, or perhaps even generous the review, and they will not renew their subscription. Subscriptions ... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Hi Dsper,The Coda would likely have been improved by using soft recovery rectifiers. IMO there should only be 3 choices. Clear, articulate gear, less so, and dark. The only matching ought to be how much of each one wants. Unfortunately, things lik... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Now that I think more about it, the tube preamp has a closely regulated power supply AND when I used standard 6X5GT rectifiers the preamp didn't sound all that good, I put in a Bendix 5852 and it sounded much better. Additionally, I used a couple ... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Dave_b, I used to be pretty skeptical about power cords and such, it's also interesting that you mentioned SS being sensitive. When I bought my Yggdrasil DAC it was really bright. I initially thought that it was something downstream, an interconne... | |
| Is there actually a difference? Dave_b, only that when doing an A/B particularly with consumer vs transparent articulate equipment, listeners ought to be able to identify each, though which they prefer would be a matter of taste. As for us, when we do something to our system it'... | |
| Is there actually a difference? Dave_b, taking time to get a handle on a system's sound isn't the same as being able to hear differences. Before you take a hearing test, you are supposed to have had 8 hours of only low level noise, that can impact an A/B test. OTOH, if someone c... | |
| Is there actually a difference? In my opinion, it would be VERY easy to set up a double blind test where people would be unable to hear differences in various equipment. I would love to find a skeptic to work with where I pick the speakers, and the high end equipment. The speake... |