We repair
all Golden tube audio products. Of excellent design, these
units suffered from poor quality components, especially nearing
end of production,and erratic quality
control: There are many repair and upgrade alternatives with
these units so please feel free to call or e-mail for more
detailed information. Some specific items are listed below:
SE-40:
Channel drops out, one channel dead, no audio, no green light:
Caused by defective plate supply resistors, filament rectifier
for 6SN7's There are two alternative repairs for this model:
Repair / Upgrade (simple):
We replace the screen resistors with metal-oxide power types
and upgrade the bridge rectifier. cost 175.00
Full upgrade:
Replace all resistors with Metal-Oxide power types , Upgrade all
rectifiers with fast recovery types, correct any wiring defects
that are common to these units. Cost 275.00. As these sets used
good quality caps we do not usually replace them, but a premium
cap upgrade is available for an additional 125.00
SI-50:
Some poor quality resistors, bad soldering, undervalued
rectifiers.
Standard repair/upgrade 175.00, full upgrade (similar) to SE-40
above 275.00.
SE-100 to SE-845:
Usually had better grade parts, but near the end of production
were made with some really bad components. Usually just a few
bad resistors in set, with rest of high quality. We usually
just go through and upgrade what is of poor quality and leave
the rest. Cost range 175-225.00 depending on extent of parts
involved. Caps were good quality, really no advantage in
upgrade.
IMPORTANT: WE CANNOT SUPPLY ANY
PARTS FOR GT PRODUCTS. WE RECEIVE MANY REQUESTS
FOR OUTPUT/POWER TRANSFORMERS
and SI-50 IC's. WE HAVE NO SOURCE FOR THESE PARTS AS THERE IS NO
CURRENT PRODUCTION ON THESE ITEMS
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