Beware old man time, when buying older used solid-state amps. Make sure you can listen to it BEFORE you buy it. Make sure to take the top off and check the PS Filter Caps as well as ALL electrolytic caps on the boards. If the caps are dried out or have leaked onto output boards it is bad news and big bucks to fix. The GFA-565 Mono Blocks were great bargins and good mid-fi amps in there day. Due to a flaw in long term thinking, most a junk now due to caps that have leaked all over the output boards. People have packed them away, taken them out 10 years later and just fired them up instead of looking inside first. Hey what is that hum, what is that smell, how come my speakers don't work when I put my new amp back? Make sure the output caps are OK or you could kill a good pair of speakers.
I buy mostly used gear, but one needs to be careful or they will end up spending more money then if they bought new. Happy hunting and shopping. -- iPhone Media Room: Transporter, Vandersteen Quatro Signature, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center Channel, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco 710, RAM Oppo DV970HD, VeraStarr 6.4SE Living Room: Squeezebox 3, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold Bedroom: Squeezebox 3, Thiel 2.3, NAD C370 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40244 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
