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I'm sure this has been asked many times before, but does anyone have a line on real VFETs? Specifically 2sk60 / 2aj18, for a TA-5650. I've got a unit with 2 bad VFETs and I'm on the fence about whether to hang on and try to find replacements, or just part the thing out. eBay seems to be chock...
weighing in at 51.26 Lbs. the transformer is probably the half of weight. This is a very clean second hand purchase, with just the left channel DC offset in the high 90's. Now both right and left DC run + - 2.0
This is my Pilot 245-A integrated amp just after I pulled it from it's console. Push-pull amplifier with 6BQ5/EL84 output tubes, about 20 watts per channel. This amp has the same output transformers as the venerable Pilot 232 amp. Note the faceplate in the background, and see the...
This is my Pilot 245A integrated tube amp - all cleaned up. Lots of elbow grease, Brasso, Nevr-Dull (magic stuff!). The amp was recapped with Orange Drops and Sprague Atoms throughout. It's a push-pull 6BQ5 with about 20watts output per channel.
I bought this new in Okinawa, Japan, in 1983, as near as I can recall. It used to put out 140 clean thumping amps into 4 ohms (AR 58s). Alas, it is fried. It works, but gets dreadfully hot, and the last repairman to work on it said it was all corroded inside, and that the last couple of...