rickysnit
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| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? No, I’d bet something happened. A mod gone wrong, there is something missing. Anyway, I think it could be universally agreed that type of outcome is significantly unlikely in any normal scenario. Some other poster suggested rectifiers, there is so... | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? ok, I read the post, that is quite a bit different. Backfiring amp! lol Good thing you don't have one in that kind of shape! | |
| Naim NAC-N 272 with non-Naim power amp Seems like a decent thing to me. It's like cooking, put all sorts of tasty ingredients together, get a tasty result. Probably the same with the Naim and some other decent amp. Like you say, it's just the dorky connectors they use. | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? So all of this is based on an anecdotal 'exploding cap' experience from some dude?.. I've embraced capacitors as a topic across audio enthusiasts; the mystery around them, the (at times) compulsion to replace, the continual attribution of any tech... | |
| Repair your Cambridge Audio 840E volume contol issues So I thought I got it with the heat mod posted above - no, issues persist. I too replaced the relays the OP DHL suggested - Fujitsu SW-9-W-K, all 28 of them. I just desoldered the old and put in new, no sockets. The job was easy enough, took a lit... | |
| Amp straight into the wall a clean 20 amp home run number 12 romex straight to a hospital grade gound fault receptacle That'll do it :) lol | |
| Parasound HCA-1000A Modifications I was looking at one of these with modifications in mind - Did you mod and test as you went? I would be willing to bet a capacitor refresh and wire made the biggest difference. $100 all in on parts, I was considering $100 on new cable alone - sign... | |
| Power cords or power conditioner Sure, I'll pile on with more anecdotal stuff.. What is very interesting is the general and maybe overall support for power cables, but such a mixed range of support on cables relating to the actual signal itself. A few folks mentioned power condit... | |
| Bypassing / Jumping Pots? Ex: Rotel RB-1050 or Parasound HCA-1000a I was thinking the former, but you're right, it might just not be worth it.. | |
| Bypassing / Jumping Pots? Ex: Rotel RB-1050 or Parasound HCA-1000a It's nice equipment? Just wondering if people see anything else I may not. | |
| Technics SU-R1000 Ha Touché! | |
| Technics SU-R1000 Half loaf, fully baked.. | |
| Amp Internal Wire That’s awesome.. Hard to describe the silver sound other than HiFi in every true sense of the term. | |
| Upsizing Capacitors People spend months or years designing amps and other people who think they know better want to "improve" on the design. Where's the facepalm emoji? Sheesh. I used a car analogy in another thread, have always had the same logic on auto "upgrade... | |
| Amp Internal Wire 2 days, 3 evenings of this Mundorf cable in my amp - Every 4B-ST should have this, I'm so glad I did it.. I think I'm going to order another 1M, chop it up into 20cm increments for speaker jumpers. 4B-ST even today isn't a cheap amp, but I now hav... |