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After 22 years of daily use, my amplifier has started to produce a nasty noise from one channel, regardless of the volume position.
Can anyone recommend somewhere that could revive my poorly Musical Fidelity x-a2?
For MF gear: I came across recommendations for this chap (John Samson) on an audio forum:
https://jsaudiorepairs.co.uk/repairs/
As a guide: it was £110 for a repair to 1 dead channel on an A3.2
Super helpful and quick
Oxford Audio Repairs
07522 568560
I used these guys for a vintage marantz, helped that they were close to where I worked at the time!
Thank you both for your suggestions, neither of the companies had came up in my search- hence asking here for recommendations.
I knew Singletrack would have the answers 😄
Cheers jim👍
My local Audio T fixed an old Technics amp of mine, I'm in Cardiff but they may do this country wide.
Deco Audio, Aylesbury. Also an excellent hifi/record shop.
https://decoaudio.com/deco_audio_repairs.html
My old amp in the dining room has given up this week.
Luckily there’s a proper audio whizz dude near me I can call upon. In a brilliant bit of nominative determinism he’s called Bob Noyes!
my amplifier has started to produce a nasty noise from one channel
I had this on both channels. It was an easy fix though, it turned out someone had left a gangsta rap CD in the player.
Having seen the price of the new MF A1, I'm sending mine back for recapping! They sourced and original to design the new one. It's now 5x what I paid for mine.
@tired how much is that? I have an old Cambridge 540R from the cap plague era that needs a full recap and just the part cost alone is daft at the volumes I'd be buying them.
New gen A1 is £1500 for the integrated Class A biased amp
If you are in the South I'd try HiFi Hanger in Borden.
I've had stuff repaired and serviced through Audio Gold in Muswell Hill, N8. Superb old school proper hi-fi shop that won't bullshit you or try to upsell stupid nonsense like fancy interconnects etc. I had a pair of Audiolab amps fully repaired and serviced for £300, including a brand new transformer. A slightly dodgy input connector was also repaired. Came back good as new. Can't praise them enough. Grahams Hi-Fi in N1 are also very good I understand, as are Armstrong Audio in E17.
Having seen the price of the new MF A1, I’m sending mine back for recapping! They sourced and original to design the new one. It’s now 5x what I paid for mine.
The A1 is a very nice amplifier, lovely sound, sits alongside the likes of the Audiolab 8000A and the AR Cambridge A60 for that classic British amp sound. The original MF A1 was a bit more fussy over what speakers you could use with it, perhaps a little underpowered for the average living room, and prone to failures; a friend had his repaired 3 times before giving up and replacing it with something more modern. So a new, improved version which hopefully fixes the mistakes of the original, would be very nice. I had a loaner B200 while my Audiolabs were being sorted, and it was a very pleasant substitute. Doesn't get anywhere near as hot as the A1 (overheating was a main issue with the originals), has a good bit more power.