Hi mates,
i'm interested in Hi-Fi since my early youth. Started with Dual, changed to Denon and bought a Michaelson & Austin M100 + TVP-X combo in the early nineties, because they where the best sounding amps i've ever heard, but always broke. So the friend didn't wanted to keep them.
First i changed parts, fixed connections, changed the burnt, broken pcbs in the M100s and had a good working pair for some years. Then one audio transformer blew up and i had the chance to buy a new pair from the manufacturer of the originals. Now the second one blew up and took the pcb with it.
Another permanent project is a Sherwood S-5500 III and a tuner of that age. Worked like a charm even with nearly non functioning tubes and capacitors. Changed some of the capacitors and used it for some time to drive a pair of Martin Logan CLS, but suddenly it stopped working. Found a bad tube and changed it. Had one channel back, but the other was dead and some deadly current on the chassis. Found a broken heater connection with a cable loose, fixed that and had the voltage on the rca inputs after that.
So there are two projects to work on.
i'm interested in Hi-Fi since my early youth. Started with Dual, changed to Denon and bought a Michaelson & Austin M100 + TVP-X combo in the early nineties, because they where the best sounding amps i've ever heard, but always broke. So the friend didn't wanted to keep them.
First i changed parts, fixed connections, changed the burnt, broken pcbs in the M100s and had a good working pair for some years. Then one audio transformer blew up and i had the chance to buy a new pair from the manufacturer of the originals. Now the second one blew up and took the pcb with it.
Another permanent project is a Sherwood S-5500 III and a tuner of that age. Worked like a charm even with nearly non functioning tubes and capacitors. Changed some of the capacitors and used it for some time to drive a pair of Martin Logan CLS, but suddenly it stopped working. Found a bad tube and changed it. Had one channel back, but the other was dead and some deadly current on the chassis. Found a broken heater connection with a cable loose, fixed that and had the voltage on the rca inputs after that.
So there are two projects to work on.
Tony Michaelson started as a musician who liked to hear on his recordings, what he played. So he founded Michaelson & Austin with a Kevin Austin. They broke up and Michaelson started Musical Fidelity, which had some problems with reliability too. 😉
Somewhere early in all this trouble Tim de Paravicini stumbled in and fixed and/or delivered new designs and ideas.
So i think you either love it or throw it as far as possible.
Somewhere early in all this trouble Tim de Paravicini stumbled in and fixed and/or delivered new designs and ideas.
So i think you either love it or throw it as far as possible.