L&M Electronics in Daly City, CA for Amp Repair?

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kimchee411

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Any SF Bay Area audioheads out there?

I'm not sure I'm posting this in the right place (was looking for "modern day" SS amps) but I have a Classe CAP-101 with a faint buzz/crackling in the highs coming from my right channel. I've been trying to find a place to get it fixed and the 2 small local shops I've contacted both referred me to L&M Electronics in Daly City. They are an authorized service center for Arcam, McIntosh, B&O, Yamaha, and Tascam, but not Classe.

There are only 3 dealers in the area, which appear to be subsidiaries of the same company. I believe they would send the unit back to Classe for repair, which I could do myself, but I would rather avoid the long turn around and high cost of going back to the manufacturer.

Anyone heard of, or have any experience with, L&M? They have 3 Yelp reviews, which are pretty positive.

BTW I know it's the amp. I've swapped inputs, cables, sources, speakers, even rooms.

Thanks in advance!
 
kimchee411 said:
Any SF Bay Area audioheads out there?

I'm not sure I'm posting this in the right place (was looking for "modern day" SS amps) but I have a Classe CAP-101 with a faint buzz/crackling in the highs coming from my right channel. I've been trying to find a place to get it fixed and the 2 small local shops I've contacted both referred me to L&M Electronics in Daly City. They are an authorized service center for Arcam, McIntosh, B&O, Yamaha, and Tascam, but not Classe.

There are only 3 dealers in the area, which appear to be subsidiaries of the same company. I believe they would send the unit back to Classe for repair, which I could do myself, but I would rather avoid the long turn around and high cost of going back to the manufacturer.

Anyone heard of, or have any experience with, L&M? They have 3 Yelp reviews, which are pretty positive.

BTW I know it's the amp. I've swapped inputs, cables, sources, speakers, even rooms.

Thanks in advance!
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I have a 33-year-old Teac RtoR deck that has been to L&M twice in its life for tune ups. I've also had an McIntosh tuner in there about a year ago. I was very happy with the experiences and everything is fine.

So I can recommend the shop. Given that, you might just call them and see if they'll work on your Classe.
 
L&M has been around at least from the early 80's maybe earlier. I think they've always been a McIntosh warranty station. Hell, they used to be an SAE warranty station.
 
Thanks for the replies. I took the amp into L&M over the weekend. They charge $50 for diagnostics and put that money towards the job if you decide you want the repair done. Fair enough. I hope they can fix the problem without breaking the bank!
 
Rocket99 said:
would never go there again ever
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Ok but who are you? All your doing is to sign up on sites to bad mouth a company because you think you have the power of the pen.

LOL
They just fixed my MC275 Mk VI, almost out of warranty mac picked up the service charge and I couldn't be happier with the service and turn around time.
 
By the way your MA5100 is needing restoration not just a quick fix. Cleaning and making a unit perfect would cost a lot more than a 3 hour service charge.

Rocket99 said:
dropped off a McINtosh MA5100 with one dead channel and messed up noisy dysfunctional pots across the front

$375 later the one side did work and the pots were all still trash
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Two year old thread. But, since it has been bumped....

My MC 2102 is still working fine. L&M was successful with the burning resistor problem. Later, I was able to fix on the meter by cleaning and tightening the lugs. What was the problem with your MC275?
 
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Cadillac Kid said:
Two year old thread. But, since it has been bumped....

My MC 2101 is still working fine. L&M was successful with the burning resistor problem. Later, I was able to fix on the meter by cleaning and tightening the lugs. What was the problem with your MC275?
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I have two of them and bought at two different stores a week apart. One of them would go into protection mod easier when the system was driven hard. After about 34 months the amp would have a hard time reseting till it didn't at all.

L&M told me they'll look at it in about ten days. Also if it's under three years to get them the receipt and I did, they expedited with mac and called me in five days and said my amps ready. I asked him what was wrong and he said he found a loose solder joint and fixed it. So far so good, it's been about three months now.
 
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