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In Reply to: RE: Grommes 40PG Crosses the Finish Line posted by Craig941 on January 01, 2017 at 15:27:30
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Just sand and paint the cover of that one output transformer and put a new heavier duty AC cord on it and you are good to go Craig.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Super nice restoration.You were wise to ask Mike for advice on the rebuild.How does it sound?What are your source components & speakers?Enjoy!
It's back on the bench for the new power cord. I have a pair of Genesis Physics 410's and a pair of Thiel 3.6's. I'll see how it sounds with both. The Thiels are 4 ohm. Now that the holidays are over there will be more time to just sit and listen.
Use the Genesis speakers! Thiels, even the small ones, have very nasty dips in their impedance curves. That's not the sort of thing to connect to a refurbed Grommes amp.
JMO, Thiels work best when fed by tubed preamplification and very high quality SS power amplification. The impedance characteristics of Thiel speakers make them bad choices for mating to mass market SS and most tube equipment.
I would mate little Thiels to a H/K Cit. 2 in good repair, on the 4 Ω taps. However, even the outstanding "Deuce" should not be mated to big Theils. Big Thiels dip down to 1 Ω, perhaps a tad lower. :> ((
Eli D.
Another shot...
Thanks!
I plan to start seriously listening to it this week. But from what I heard on my bench through some minimus 7's, I'm not going to be disappointed.
Here's a before shot:
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