It’s a cold solder joint. Classe quality went downhill after Glen Grue took over from David Reich at Classe. Your best bet is to have a tech go over every soldered connection.
Classe CA100 - Static, Cut Outs when cold. Ideas?
So I recently purchased a Classe CA100 amp. I removed my old amp from a perfectly working system and installed the Classe. Upon first playing music I immediately noticed something was wrong. The channels were dropping out at random and the was static coming through. I assumed the amp was broken.
Then as I left the music playing while I tried to to figure out the problem it seemed like the symptoms were going away. After an hour the amp sounded okay. Then today, after remaining on all night I played some tracks at a high volume and it seems okay. So I turned it off while I'm at work and I'm going to see how it does from cold again.
Any ideas what would cause this? There is a B&W service center (parent company of Classe) 10 mins from my house. I may look to see how much it would cost to give it a once-over. How much do you think?
Thanks
Then as I left the music playing while I tried to to figure out the problem it seemed like the symptoms were going away. After an hour the amp sounded okay. Then today, after remaining on all night I played some tracks at a high volume and it seems okay. So I turned it off while I'm at work and I'm going to see how it does from cold again.
Any ideas what would cause this? There is a B&W service center (parent company of Classe) 10 mins from my house. I may look to see how much it would cost to give it a once-over. How much do you think?
Thanks
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stereo I had the same exact problem with my Classe CAP 150, sent it back to Quebec twice, both times cold solder joints. It happened a third time and brought it to a local tech who found at least 6 more bad solder joints. Hence, have a local tech re-solder everything.Ouch! And all shipping is a nuisance - it's really one of the Dirty Little Secrets about hi-fi. |
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