Rotel RA-985BX integrated amp
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| Posted on March 5, 2015 at 05:45:34 | ||
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Location: midwest Joined: March 8, 2003 |
Last week I won on ebay a Rotel RA-985BX integrated amplifier. I paid $183 including shipping. It arrived Tuesday and I have had two evenings of listening to it. On both evenings it sounded fine for about 3 hours, and after three hours started making noise in the left channel. The noise sounds like what you would get listening to a really weak FM station. The noise level is constant, unaffected by the volume control setting, and is present with all sources. Only the mute eliminates the noise. I turned the amp off for about 15 minutes to let it cool off. When I turned it back on, the noise was gone for a while, but returned when the amp had been running for about a half hour. I asked the seller for a refund, and his initial offer was for a partial refund of $100. A local repair shop, without seeing the amp said the it might cost $100-150 to fix it, but the cost could be much higher. I don't want to sink good money after bad into this amp. It was an $800 amp when new, but is now about 15 years old. I would be willing to spend a couple hundred to get it fixed, but much more than that and I am thinking I would be better off with a different amp. The amp will be driving a pair of Paradigm Studio 60 v.2 speakers. I will use it with a Yamaha RX-V2300, which will I use for HT and FM. The Yamaha has pre-outputs which I connect to the integrated. I had been using a Denon PMA-520 for music. The reason for getting the Rotel was to get improved 2 channel performance for music, which it does provide when it is not making the noise. So should I take the $100 and get the Rotel repaired, or start over? Any advice from the experts here would be greatly appreciated.
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| RE: Rotel RA-985BX integrated amp, posted on March 5, 2015 at 08:54:48 | |
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Posts: 4393
Location: SF Bay Joined: August 16, 2001 |
agreed - Take the $100 and have the unit fixed- Happy Listening
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