I Believe In Miracles
So, in the true spirit of Easter my much missed Mark Levinson 390CD has risen from the dead !!
Kind of.....
The problem with it was that the right channel would cut out sometimes minutes, sometimes hours after power up.
I took it to a couple of recommended hifi repair types who were unable to diagnose the exact fault but both felt that test and repair would be prohibitively expensive. Neither charged, which was amazing.
With nothing better to do this afternoon I thought I'd plug the deceased into my Soncoz SGD1 DAC which, together with an Audiolab 6000 Transport, I bought to replace it. (The new messiah ?)
It's sounding terrific. I tempted to say better than the Audiolab, but not significantly so. It's a beautifully engineered piece of kit though and I'm very pleased to have it operational again.
Looks like the Audiolab's gonna be on the sub's bench for now.
Mark Levinson 390 CD / Croft 25RS Special Preamp / Croft 7R mono Amps / Neat Ultimatum XLS Speakers