Servicing both SS and valve equipment.

Vintech
4A Riverbank Rd, N Lynn
Ph 826 4442

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Rang Mark today to discuss repair of my Rotel RCD 990 CD player. Very helpful, and will take it in to him next week. He advises he has a large Alsatian dog who may be roaming free! So may pay to ring or txt him before entering the property!

Jake?Jack? didn't even bark at me but he does look very menacing!

Still waiting on my krell irs been with him for nearlt 4 months now , im praying she will be home soon

Manager & Product specialist at Rapallo AV & HI-FI

May 27, 2017 19:46:54 GMT 12 deano1974 said:

Still waiting on my krell irs been with him for nearlt 4 months now , im praying she will be home soon

Dropped my Rotel CD player off today. Mark very busy and said he won't be able to look at it for three weeks, then pointed at a Krell amplifier in pieces on the bench and said he was putting more hours in on that than he will be able to charge for!  Said he was being dicked around by Krell and had trouble getting parts!   So, deano1974, doubt it will be home soon!  At least he is working on it!

Lucky I bought the Perreaux prisma 350 then thanks Sub for the information, A long and winding road comes to mind

Manager & Product specialist at Rapallo AV & HI-FI

Called Mark and told him not to stress as i have bought a new amp lol he seemed relieved poor guy, he is such a cool guy though spoke highly of sub and a dude with a sonic cleaning machine so either admin or citreón 😉

Manager & Product specialist at Rapallo AV & HI-FI

Mark sorted a pair of old McLaren 601 & 701 for me last year that fell from a great height.
Superb guy, easy to deal with and the price was more than reasonable.

Valve & Idler nut!

I tracked down and spoke with Mark today re a possible repair to a friend's Perraux SA80B.
Same number and address, but no longer 'vintech'.
Instead, amprepair.co.nz/ - focusing mainly on guitar amps now, and didn't want to know about an old Perraux;-

I asked why, a nightmare? Ah, everything drifts, mosfet outputs unobtainium. I said likely driver stages, he agreed...
It's just the power amp section way down in one channel, as a start. Muffled too, apparently.
He put me on to a local friend of his, semi retired, I spoke with him then my friend, and they're meeting up tomorrow.

A quietly friendly chap. If it all works out and and he agrees, I might publish his details later. Only name & ph for now.

I'd earlier encouraged my friend to contact Perraux directly, see if they might help with schematics, service manual.
Especially since I found this Perraux Facebook page showing SA80B playing from a turntable.
www.facebook.com/perreaux.audio/posts/an-oldie-but-a-goodie-a-perreaux-sa80b-integrated-amplifier-manufactured-circa-1/123171324526595/

Actually the initial mention from my friend, taking out of storage, owned since new, was that the phono stage was noisy.
We've already investigated op-amp replacements. I've found drop-in lower noise replacements, and a source of originals.
But that's for further down the track. All that by ph & email, I can't look at it in my present situation, so good that someone else will.

Anybody know who else might look at older Perraux amps?

(Although I did encourage my friend to try emailing Perraux again, I don't think he did. I think he should try again. Maybe it got lost... ;=}))
(You'd think that if they had ancient schematics they might not mind sharing them with service techs willing to repair. They likely wouldn't?)

Thoughts, please ;-)


~ Ross