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Audiogon Friday Feel Good Story of the Week

A number of you looked at and answered my question posted, uh, 10 days ago about stupid User Error on my part blowing the entire right channel of my beloved 1993 B&K ST-202+ Sonata amplifier. All the comments were appreciated even the less helpful ones. With your help, I was able to pick up a 1988 ST-202 that had just been redone properly at a very reasonable price. It arrived yesterday and I lugged it upstairs and simply connected it straight to the pre-amp.

Wow. Just wow. Because of the recent refurb it had, it actually trashed my Sonata who's last refurb was in 2007.

As I was sitting there a bit stunned and enjoying myself, I FORGOT that I had not hooked up the Sunfire SDS-12 subwoofer at all. I'll get to that in a couple of hours but I wanted to thank everyone for their comments and especially thank the wonderful fellow who found and sold me the Amp and also the person who recommended Deltronics in Chicago to repair my Sonata. If I can't find some place local, I will definitely go that route.

Thanks again everyone.

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alucard19
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I have had numerous audio gear repaired at Deltronics and they have been very professional and very good at repair and their prices will not put you into the poor house.I had a Parasound JC3 Jr. with a bad right channel fixed for only $250.00 and an old Kenwood KR8010 receiver that I have owned since 1978 that they repaired that needed new caps and a total rebuild of the left channel for only $350.00 both units are now working like new and I would not hesitate to take any other audio gear to them in the future.I'm lucky as I only live about 30 minutes away and can just drop things off in person.
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asvjerry
4,358 posts
 
MC, you're a surprise fer chure....a Ren & Stimpy 'woke'! *ROTFL*

('Log' fanboy, myself. We 'do' logs a lot, here...)

For the OP, (Happy you're happy, and that's what counts. 👍), I don't think hammers were involved.....;)
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jasonbourne52
2,863 posts
 
Direct Bypass on your Sonata Pro-10 means that the signal bypasses the gain stage and goes only through the volume pot. My PS Audio IV preamp has the same option. It lets you use the volume control higher up (where it is more linear) when connected with a device like a CD or DVD player with 2 volts output. More gain is not needed then!
elliottbnewcombjr
5,249 posts
 
OP,

congrats.

Have you considered, NOT hooking up the sub is WHY it sounds so good!!!???


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arcticdeth
1,549 posts
 
Deltronics I’m sure does good work.
a lot of Chicago shops, repair shops, swap parts, or use inferior parts.
im not saying the “DO”, I’m saying be careful.
  This is from experience at Martroy electronics. 
  Chicago repair shops, be careful and investigate. 

Glad your happy.

    There is a small mom n pop place in Rockford which I have used twice. Inspected, they opened up the amp, showed me all they did, and a hand written list of parts removed and what parts were replaced. 
  
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