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Sun Audio SV-2A3 Stereo Amp Refurbish

Customer: Gary Ralph

Completed on 08/13/12

Hi Min,

The amp made it back safe and sound.  Thanks for doing such a great job.  The sound is really clean and transparent, while still maintaining a nice sense of weight.  I'll report back in a few days after things have burned in a bit more, but i can tell you that I'm already very happy with the way that things turned put. Thanks for doing such a fantastic job.

All the best,

Gary
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After...

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This amp was previously tweaked by an electrical engineer who apparently forgot to add an filter capacitor for the driver stage per the original schematic. This was remediated by adding one.

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The driver circuit was rebuilt with quality cf resistors and bypass caps. Notice the Russian PIO coupling caps.

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The discrete 50 mfd/500 vdc caps were removed and replaced with a multi-sectioned electrolytic cap.

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The exterior of the amp was out of the scope of this refurbish work. The amp looks a bit up from the outside, but it's solid internally. 

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