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| Fixing a Broken NAD C320BEE In my experience, a "few blown capacitors" will be just the tip of the iceberg. Electrolytic capacitors blow for only a few reasons:1. Installed backwards2. Incorrect voltage rating for the circuit3. Extreme age (10-20 years), they dry out then ne... | |
| I need help bad It's a fire waiting to happen. The Motherboards of all Arcam AVR-2XX-3XX units cooked themselves to death along with those for the AVP700 which went 2x faster due to the lack of cooling vents in the top cover!Arcam service nearly died over that ba... | |
| Musical Fidelity Tri Vista SACD Elberoth2 is correct. I am US service manager for dCS and our P8i and Verdi Encore were also units left without parts for the same Philips Mechanism's. The Philips 5.2 Mech is a universal CD/SACD/DVD mechanism that is totally proprietary with its ... | |
| Can I replace/repair a Phillips SACD transport? My post had several early paragraphs cut off.What I had tried to say was that although Philips ceased supporting the 5.2 SACD/DVD Mechanism, at least there are some OPU's (Optical Pickup Unit=Laser Block) left and thank God the laser still fixes 8... | |
| Can I replace/repair a Phillips SACD transport? ..then any competent tech should be able to repair any of the Philips Screwed-over brands; EMM, MF, Accuphase and dCS (P8i and Verdi Encore).I am dCS US Service Manager and I repair Philips transports weekly (as long as it's not a motor, which in ... | |
| Do Old CD Players Require Servicing Like Amps? More so; any component with moving parts (disc drives, tape decks, etc) will require more service than an amp (unless the amp is poorly designed, incorrectly biased or RoHS compliant!).SACD's laser averages 2-4 years (at least for Sony and Philips... | |
| Mcintosh Volume control acting erratic As an Authorized McIntosh repair center, we have had more than 2 Optical Encoders fail (one in an MX-132 and another in a C2200 I seem to recall) and they reflect your exact symptoms when failing. Take her in for service and McIntosh will take car... | |
| DCS 1394 problem Pss,Make sure all 3 units are set for "1394ID=0".I am the dCS North America Service Center, by the way.Tel: (703) 349-6989Steve GeorgedCS America | |
| I Just Don't Hear It - I wish I did If you hold your 'hit' in so long you start to gray out, that is when you achieve total clarity. Ultimate tweak, I tell ya... | |
| Best Integrated Amp You Ever Heard? Own it: 1964 HH Scott 222D with 7189A output tubes (not EL84's) so I get true 22wpc.I am service eng for several super high end brands, and have yet to have this amp beaten by much at all with any level of separates. Something to be said for one l... | |
| NAD 370 capacitor source REPLACE ALL 4 AT THE SAME TIME. Also, I haven't seen too many power amps that had a B+ capacitor blow that didn't cause other damage, so bring her up slowly on a varaic measuring DC offset.Also the glue the factory puts on the bottom of the cap to... | |
| Why not cryo AFTER break in of product? Obviously you have to ship your entire rack, complete, to the Cryo Lab, have them dunk the entire stack; rack, cones, components and all, then ship it home without budging a thing, you'd be in seventh heaven.Wonder if someone could to on-site Cryo... | |
| Should I do it or Not??? Tech question Part 2 Roy, if the repaired channel (transistors or heatsinks) runs at the same temperature as the other channel (neither warmer or cooler), then don't worry about bias as long it sounds great.IF the bias were too high, the new transistors would get hott... | |
| If cables can break-in, can they then wear-out? As a former test equipment calibration lab tech, you'd think I felt measurements were everything, but I have seen far too many components (cables included) that measure EXACTLY the same with steady state signals sound vastly different with music.N... | |
| DIY Anti-IC project I found a similar result fiddling with DIY Pre-Out Amp-In jumpers. Using a single strand of solid copper from AudioQuest Type-4 was OK, but the same RCA's with a single strand of solid copper CAT-5 wire of same length was the best; clearer and fas... |