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01-07-2015, 09:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bethany CT
Posts: 2,885
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Originally Posted by JohnR
Oooohhhhh - Going to the Dark Side 
Read through AudioKarma and some other tube sections/places.
Vintage stereo gear is addicting. I decided NOT to go down that road |
Problem is I grew up with a Scott 340b as our family stereo. It then became my stereo in college. About 10 years ago I put it in my dad's basement since I couldn't afford to have it restored and I won't do cap jobs. A couple weeks ago I told my dad to bring it up so I could get it restored. He tells me it fell off a shelf in the basement this fall and the glass cracked so he threw it out. I can't get over it... I have been on Audio karma not stop since and can't stay out of thrift shops, but it is needle in a hay stack since they apparently became hot stuff recently.
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No, no, no. we’re 30… 30, three zero.
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01-08-2015, 01:28 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: guilford CT
Posts: 858
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whats a cap job?
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01-08-2015, 02:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
Posts: 3,228
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Originally Posted by bobber
whats a cap job?
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Capacitors. ie; solid state tech |
The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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01-08-2015, 08:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bethany CT
Posts: 2,885
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Originally Posted by bobber
whats a cap job?
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There are a couple different capacitors. The ones that often need to be changed are electrolytic capacitors. Among other things, they filter out dc voltage coming from the power supply. They are chemical based and wear out kind of like a battery and the amps performance is greatly diminished. The fun with the caps is that they store a charge. Some of them as much as 500v or so even when the amp is unplugged. You have to intentionally/carefully/knowledgeably/safely discharge them or they can discharge to you. Not my cup of tea. Besides it is a lot of un-soldering/re-soldering and I find much soldering to be a tedious pain. |
No, no, no. we’re 30… 30, three zero.
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01-08-2015, 10:15 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,365
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I picked up an old early 70s Marantz 2240, serviced, and a pair of 1980s Klipsch Heresys. Sounds spectacular, tubelike but not quite tube sound. I showed my son how rock is supposed to be listened to, not through earbuds from an iPhone. He is only allowed to go to 5 on the volume knob  |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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01-10-2015, 10:43 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,879
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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