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In Reply to: RE: Restore and upgrade that baby. posted by Michael Samra on December 10, 2014 at 13:46:52
Thanks, Mike and Airtime!
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I understand that this pre has some followers in the vintage world. I have never done a comparison between it a say a C22 , Marantz 1 or 7 ARC SP3 etc.
I have a 3 or 4 vintage pre's (some mentioned above) and the Fisher is not in the same regard as those from a collector's point of view. I don't think you would do any harm by thoughtfully replacing the electrolytics with FP cans that mostly match the look of the originals.
I have actually done that on some Marantz pieces by re-stuffing with small high performance radials. You can't tell. On the other hand hook it up ,ramp it up and listen and measure. You may have to do nothing at all. Ends up being cheaper and it may be what the collector of such a piece may want in the end.
IOW I would not touch it unless it demonstrated failure - if it demonstrates hum, motor boating etc change them and you won't loose much if anything on that piece.
You can always modify the heck out of it per Samra but unless it is for personal use only I would not do it to any Mac, Marantz and maybe this Fisher piece. It really degrades perceived selling value. (Citation stuff is not quite collector's territory and is routinely modified so does not follow the same logic.) It will undoubtably sound "better" but at a price.
YMMV and all that. Good luck with it.
AJ
Again,he is using this for himself and you are not modifying anything...You are simply changing capacitors for better quality ones and a couple resistors.There is no chassis cutting and breaking anything up.You do it so you can put the original type parts back in if you go to sell it.
This is why you goop the parts in and not drill holes and put in clamps.
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