Nico bolted the amp to the centre of a sheet of wood, cut to the same size as the original cardboard box. So the amp could never slide around inside the box and keeps the delicate terminals perfectly safe. As if that wasn't enough it was also wrapped in a soft fleece, bubble, padding, plus a second ...

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A new 2250 in terms of looks, but more understated, no larger than a 2125, packing four channels of 250rms each. Could be used to run a two way active on it's own, or run a full system of passive comps plus a sub. Or a 2250 in terms of looks as above, but only the size of an MS275, packing 250rms x2...

I now use no crossovers in the voice spectrum. Point source FTW

Can I humbly suggest looking into having multiple hobbies. When one hobby gets a bit dull move into a totally fresh scene for a couple of months. I also happen to love building retro rc cars, or mountain bikes, making things in the workshop, plus other things. When I return back after a break you ap...

Ok, how about candy red with flakes?

Have you considered binning the guts, getting some Frank metal flake on it, then putting in three MS275?

It has some nice cosmetic metal work, such as the tops to the inductors and the wire clamps. But aside from that plus the time required to design it, I'm not sure where the money went? Considering the hype and made up price list. so what would you think it would cost design and build one of these f...

It has some nice cosmetic metal work, such as the tops to the inductors and the wire clamps. But aside from that plus the time required to design it, I'm not sure where the money went? Considering the hype and made up price list.

I suspect in it's history someone over tightened the locating screw and wrenched it out!

I know some of those MAY make some sense in passive x-overs, when used in the finest systems on the planet. But the prices are still a shock.

Anyway...

Nico informs me the caps were done in 2007, so no worries there!

F@ck me sideways. There a £1300 cap on there. Thats 1900 USD. I need a drink.

When I said I don't mind paying a little more, I didn't mean I want to be gang raped by a raging whored of audiophile baboons

Ok that's one less to look through!

Cheeky monkey!

Farnell, RS, CPC get a few mentions around so I may look there. Maplins as well I guess. So that's enough places already but I wanted some top cap brands to try and narrow it down...

Ok, the only other brand someone mentioned was Rubycon. I will have to search for specs and data soon...

Ok then, so is there anything superior to the panasonic I've used in the past. I don't mind spending a little more as this is a keeper Black would be ideal to blend in, but other than that ideas / links welcome...

With regard to my caps in the 2250 TA Nico said they are the regular size tall ones.

There's a few on ebay. Aluminium makes cutting and bending easier

Thanks for the explanations. I guess it will be lasting a long time then!

That's interesting. As I say I don't need the extra power but just wondered why they reduced the outputs that much. Thinking about it, I guess the lack of three cooling fans meant heat was the issue so maybe they had to keep the power lower

So the TA does 225w compared to 340w per channel. Why is it so much less?

Interesting, thanks a lot. Nico - any idea if these are the tall or shorter caps? Anything north of around 200 rms will be surplus in my system anyway I guess. But Amp Guts has different figures... Phoenix Gold MS-2250 2 x 250W @ 4 ohms (12.5V - <0.05% THD) 2 x 340W @ 4 ohms (13.8V) 2 x 517W @ 2 ohm...

Really? They are still pretty old now

Has anyone measured the real world outputs of the 2250 TA into stereo 4 ohms? Also I wish to swap the small caps of course (I'll ignore the large ones this time as they're always perfect). Can someone recommend some really tasty caps please? I seem to recall Wima have a great reputation. Something b...