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In Reply to: RE: Sherwood S5000 - heat destroying wires?? posted by ToddM on July 17, 2014 at 11:08:12
you have more patience than I do. It must be fun too fix everything and make it work. I think I would just buy a new one. I told members that I had a Pioneer VSX D1S and they suggested it may be time to retire it. What was the MSRP when new on this? Good job!!
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... that's about $1650.00 today. By contrast, a modern equivalent product in terms of circuit design, reviews, etc, is the Leben CS-300, which is in the $4000.00 ballpark.
Gold-plated tube shields notwithstanding, the quality seems to be in the same league (the S500 weighs more, and is smaller, so more iron in there for the transformers, is my guess), and I like the looks of the Sherwood lots more. Plus, I got a GREAT price on it, and like to do the rebuild, so it's a win-win with the S5000.
"I think I would just buy a new one".
It's not easy to find a new Sherwood S5000.
Yes, except that he has one of the finest little integrated amps ever made. The iron is very good, probably among the best you will ever find in an integrated amp of that power level. The circuit is very good and the chassis is all copper. No, it isn't a Citation II, but if you put forth the effort you can correct a few things Sherwood did to build it to a price point, but you are leaving their circuit intact, just improving the bias and power supplies and rebuilding the amp circuit with better parts than were available in 1960 or 65 when it was built. The result is a stunningly good little amp that will run another 30 years. Most of the modern stuff is built on flimsy pc boards, this amp is point to point wired. When it comes down to it, the quality of an amp is really dependent on three things. The quality of the iron, the quality of the circuit, and the quality of the power supply. Most modern amps have mediocre iron unless you pay a lot of money for them. The good vintage amps have killer iron. Many modern amps have adequate power supplies, but for an extra $50 in parts they could have killer power supplies. Everything is built to a price point. Of course there are great modern amps, but you pay big bucks for them. If he does the work himself he will have a $500-$750 amp that will blow away anything he could buy at that price point and it has a good phono section to boot. Even if he paid someone like me he would still have a $1000 amp. Quite frankly, if you put one of these properly rebuilt up against a Jolida or something else that you pay $1000 for, the Sherwood would kill it.
cheers,
Don
Ditto ditto ditto..The transfer characteristics on the Sherwood iron is phenomenal and that and the copper chassis and simplified circuits are what make those amps so nice.
Honest amplification is better than excessive 2nd order distortion anytime.
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