My (limited) hi fi journey

[Marc B]

an update to keep this merry blog going..

Well my Modwright Preamp arrived broken but is now fully working. It had the power switch damaged in transit and needed a bit of TLC and new valves..



But then to my horror... I knocked a cup of tea inside my new Classé CA-201 power amp.



so now I need to get all sorts of repair quotes and letters from various places before the insurance will pay out. hopefully it will be sorted in the next couple of weeks.

It's blowing the internal right side rail fuses if anyone knows what that is ?

in the mean time it's all boxed and ready to go...



So to keep me in music I did a trade for an Xbox 360 and games for one of these ...

Nice little hybrid amp. A Kora Explorer 90SI. It sounds quite good but doesn't seem to have the bottom end of a more beefy amp. I miss subsonic pulses



to be continued....

[Themis]

I used to have a Kora with Mulidine Arpége speakers. It works marvelously well with speakers that don't go under 50Hz.

[Marc B]

yeah I noticed.

I think my speakers are a too difficult load for it. It kinda coughs blood when I turn it up passed 3 o'clock. Choose the right music (ie not synthetic bass) and it sounds great. Though I'm just using it as a power amp at the mo via the HT direct inputs.

[Themis]

yeah I noticed.

I think my speakers are a too difficult load for it. It kinda coughs blood when I turn it up passed 3 o'clock. Choose the right music (ie not synthetic bass) and it sounds great. Though I'm just using it as a power amp at the mo via the HT direct inputs.

But as a whole, I love this amp.

[Marc B]

ha ha come on , It'll be up for sale soon and when people search for info on it on google they'll come across your post and won't buy it

[Themis]

ha ha come on , It'll be up for sale soon and when people search for info on it on google they'll come across your post and won't buy it

Well, I don't know what to say...

[Marc B]

ha ha , I was only joking mate

[Kris]

I'm impressed Marc. We share similar tastes in equipment (although I'd have gone for the Pass Labs amp instead!). Dali is one of my favourite speaker brands.

As for spilling your tea over your amp, ouch, I bet you were gutted. Maybe place it somewhere more sheltered next time?

One question if I may, what you got in the 19' rack server box?

[Marc B]

Cheers

Luckily it's getting fixed for £180 by the local Audio T shop , fingers crossed it's done this week.

The 19" rack PC is left overs from when I had the synths etc. I had it custom made to use with Cubase 5 and a couple of TC Powercore PCI cards, but when I sold the pro audio gear I kept hold of it.

I wish it was a bit smaller but can't bring myself to trade a pretty powerful pc in for a mac mini or something.

oh yeah , and the Kora amp went up in some flames after 3 days whoops

[St3v3]

Haha. Oh dear. I've noticed a theme of 'accidents' running through this thread