A customer of mine recently purchased some great new Accuphase gear and brought a couple of pieces over for me to look at. First up, we have an amazing Accuphase C-280 preamplifier. This was Accuphase’s statement preamplifier in the 1980s and it is an amazing piece of engineering. With complete dual-mono construction, including two transformers, the […]
I am about to embark on a Krell KSA-200S Class-A Amplifier Repair and Restoration for a good friend of mine. As many of you will know, the Krell KSA-200S is a beast of an amplifier, up there with the very best products Krell ever made. It is almost unliftable by one person, being hewn from solid
UPDATE – SOLD! One of the nicest pieces I currently have for sale is this gorgeous, vintage, one-owner from new, Luxman SQ-505 integrated amplifier. Priced to sell at a ridiculous $395, contact me for details. This amp is a vintage model, made in 1968 or 69 and being a Luxman it’s a very cool piece.
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In this second article on the Marantz SC-80 and SM-80, we look at the SM-80 power amplifier and a tricky repair and restoration. The Marantz SM-80 stereo power amplifier is a reasonably powerful, well-made, mid-range consumer amplifier from around 1990. It typically sold with its companion, the Marantz SC-80 preamplifier and I have just finished
In this article, I discuss the history of the LM3886/chip-amp/gaincard and run through building my own dual-mono LM3886 gainclone amplifier. The LM3886 is one of Texas Instrument’s single-chip monolithic amplifier integrated circuits. It’s almost an entire amplifier-on-a-chip, with only a few extra parts required to build a fully functional, high-performance amplifier. The LM3886 features low
