On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > 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]).
Unfortunately, when I installed a subwoofer (the low bass of my Klipsch Heresies have always been a bit lacking, but I couldn't afford the Fortes when I bought the Heresies) at some point things got moved around and there was a dead short across the outputs, and it seems that the power transistors protected the fuses. Replacing the transistors would cost more than a used amp. > > 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. ;-) Much better than you might expect, and very hi-fi for a a boom box. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
