On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Walt Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/29/2012 10:36 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> On Aug 29, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Walt Gilbert wrote: >> >>> After many years of stalwart service to my steadily declining auditory >>> senses, my beloved A/V receiver finally gave up the ghost last night. This >>> marks the beginning of an extended period of listening to my PC's audio >>> through cheap-ass earbuds. >>> >>> (SOB!!!) >> >> The power amp half of my beloved NAD 3020 is no longer working. Someone >> guessed that the problem might be electrolytic capacitors that are no longer >> capacitors. A couple years ago my Hafler XL280 also died. I feel your pain. >> >> At the moment, for parties, I'm feeding the preamp out of the NAD into my >> Pan Galactic Ghetto Blaster: >> http://red4est.com/pggb/ >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > Yikes, Larry! An NAD and a Hafler -- that's two pretty bad losses. > > I once had an NAD tuner that was pretty nice, and I know their amps are > their bread and butter. As for the Hafler -- those things are legendary.
Legendary with good reason. My Hafler DH-200 power amp that I built from a kit in 1981 still works and sounds great (but is unused as my present speakers are bi-amped studio monitors [balanced XLR inputs]). My 1981 Hafler DH-110 preamp was working perfectly until a month ago went it went silent. Might be a fuse. So I switched to my backup preamp: a Dynaco PAT-4, also courtesy David Hafler, that I built circa 1973. The sound is muddier and I suspect some component deterioration. Needs its contacts cleaned too, but it works and movie-watching is uninterrupted. The writing is on the wall for equipment with RCA interconnects though. It is getting harder to find stuff that isn't purely digital these days. I'll have to eventually give in and spend some money on new boxes one of these days. I feel like one of those crazy photographers who is bemoaning the coming loss of flapping mirrors and manual lenses. ;-) > But, that Pan Galactic Ghetto Blaster is one impressive piece of equipment! > Love it! Hmmm. Not very hi-fi, I suspect. ;-) -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
