dirtman
The Dirtman
I recently bought the amp off CL to give it to my youngest son for his birthday. It played but was quite noisy. Hissing a humming on various settings. I opened it up and could see signs of cap leakage so I decided to get on with it. I ordered all new Nichicon audio grade caps for everything. I also replaced a tantalums that are on the head amp board after reading several post about them here.
After the recap it sounded better sonically but had some snapping and popping and the hiss remained. Back to the search function I went and discovered that it had a couple 2sc458 trans in there. So I proceeded to change them out with a set of matched 2240s.
Now the crackling and popping is gone but the hiss and hum remain. This is where I could use a little help.
This is what it is doing:
Aux 2 - low level of hiss, variable with volume, music plays well.
Aux 1 - low level of hiss, variable with volume, slightly less than Aux 2.
Phono 2 - Much louder hiss, low level hum on the right channel. Hum gets a little quieter when i touch the volume knob.
Phono 1 - Same as phono 2 only not quite as loud.
Tape - Very loud hiss while on source. Almost sounds like a waterfall. a little hum. Behaves like aux 1 when I switch to tape mon. I played music through the tape mon and it plays/acts just like it was on Aux 1.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
After the recap it sounded better sonically but had some snapping and popping and the hiss remained. Back to the search function I went and discovered that it had a couple 2sc458 trans in there. So I proceeded to change them out with a set of matched 2240s.
Now the crackling and popping is gone but the hiss and hum remain. This is where I could use a little help.
This is what it is doing:
Aux 2 - low level of hiss, variable with volume, music plays well.
Aux 1 - low level of hiss, variable with volume, slightly less than Aux 2.
Phono 2 - Much louder hiss, low level hum on the right channel. Hum gets a little quieter when i touch the volume knob.
Phono 1 - Same as phono 2 only not quite as loud.
Tape - Very loud hiss while on source. Almost sounds like a waterfall. a little hum. Behaves like aux 1 when I switch to tape mon. I played music through the tape mon and it plays/acts just like it was on Aux 1.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.