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In Reply to: RE: Fisher 500C for sale on CL posted by vinnie2 on June 06, 2015 at 04:16:39
I've been told the 500C is a very nice amp, especially once rebuilt. But paying premium dollar for a vintage amp and than in my case needing someone like Mike Samara to rebuild it, one ends up with a lot of money in the unit. There is a point in my opinion to just buy a 4-8 year old ARC, CJ, or Quicksilver. But if you can find such an amp at a great price and than have someone like Samara who knows what he is doing go through it, you can really have something that sounds fantastic. From the pics, that 500C does look very nice. I should have asked him if it had the original tubes in it.
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Trouble is it is not an amp, it is a receiver. They have just too darned many parts to suit my taste. Too many old components to fail, too many things in the way of the music. Give me a nice simple SET amp and a nice simple tube line stage and a nice simple phono stage, all diy of course. Not only do you save a ton of money and get better quality and better music, but you a acquire a hobby that you can enjoy for a life time.
You don't have to be a EE to do it either. You just have to have enough common sense to follow well established safety rules and enough moxy to be able to learn to read and follow schematics. Neither of those are too hard and they get easier as you go. There are enough proven designs out there to last anyone for many years, and the schems are free on the internet. The physical skills of connecting wires and soldering just take a little practice. Start simple and workyour way up.
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I have a Lafayette tube receiver, an I know what you mean. It is such a huge undertaking to repair everything. Fortunately for me, much was already done by the previous owner for the Lafayette. Even a Scott integrated can be intimidating. This is why I prefer separates (preamp, power amp, tuner. You can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Dave
tube stuff wasn't that hard to find, I had 2 Sansui 500's one in decent working order the other w/o OPT's.
I pulled the OPT's out of the good one and built my first 45 SET, the other I rebuilt the power supply to CLC supply and used it as a preamp with Phono and AM/FM receiver ( sold on ebay).
I found one more Sansui 500 w/o OPTs, I built a CLC power supply for it and used small German OPT's and made it SEP outputs. Fun projects...
Just do it!
Willie
I think you sell yourself short. These days instructions on how to restore gear is easy to come by. You have places like this to help explain and advise. Restoring gear is where most of us start and the first step to building from scratch.
No prior electrical/electronics knowledge is needed. It does help if you know what a screwdriver is but not necessary. Ability to follow instructions and know when to ask for help is all it takes. IMHO you would have to try pretty hard, and ignore a lot of things (like smoke/flames), to do serious/costly damage.
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