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Post by hifinutt on Oct 18, 2021 13:43:16 GMT
I noticed this on a forum with a lavardin owners thread
why should a lavardin be unrepairable ?? seems odd to me . is there something special about them that makes them hard to sort out ?
I thought Id come back on here to update on my Lavardin IT repair situation. After over 18 months with the HIFi Hospital (Dublin) with Covid lockdown delays etc. Daniel of the HiFi Hospital, finally admitted defeat. He recorded numerous hours trying various approaches including different Op Amps, but all to no avail. He has been in the HiFi repair business for over 30 years, and this has been one of the most frustrating challenges he has ever faced and one of only a handful he has had to give up on.
I have long since moved on (I picked up a lovely Neodio NR600 integrated) so I am now left with a seemingly unfixable IT. I wonder would anyone be interested in taking this on or purchasing for parts.
Regards
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Post by Bigman80 on Oct 18, 2021 13:49:09 GMT
I noticed this on a forum with a lavardin owners thread why should a lavardin be unrepairable ?? seems odd to me . is there something special about them that makes them hard to sort out ? I thought Id come back on here to update on my Lavardin IT repair situation. After over 18 months with the HIFi Hospital (Dublin) with Covid lockdown delays etc. Daniel of the HiFi Hospital, finally admitted defeat. He recorded numerous hours trying various approaches including different Op Amps, but all to no avail. He has been in the HiFi repair business for over 30 years, and this has been one of the most frustrating challenges he has ever faced and one of only a handful he has had to give up on.
I have long since moved on (I picked up a lovely Neodio NR600 integrated) so I am now left with a seemingly unfixable IT. I wonder would anyone be interested in taking this on or purchasing for parts.
Regards Obsolete parts? Possible that it needs a whole new bit of fiddling to get an alternative part to work, and for 90% of repair men...it's just not worth the aggro.
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Post by misterc on Oct 18, 2021 13:54:00 GMT
IF the chap has a full skim can then work out suitable replacements or design a decent i/v stage but as Oli mentions time<>cost<>money.
Send it back to Lavvy
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Post by macca on Oct 18, 2021 15:48:59 GMT
Lavardin pot a lot of the components and remove markings, they won't tell anyone what they used, and the bloke who designed them has rung up the curtain and gone to join the choir invisible so probably no-one knows now.
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Post by misterc on Oct 18, 2021 16:15:09 GMT
Lavardin pot a lot of the components and remove markings, they won't tell anyone what they used, and the bloke who designed them has rung up the curtain and gone to join the choir invisible so probably no-one knows now. Yes he got killed in bike accident a few years ago, though I believe they are still making the stuff so must have some full skims somewhere?
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Post by macca on Oct 18, 2021 16:27:08 GMT
I didn't realise they were still making them, got to think that they know what is in the more recent ones then.
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Post by hifinutt on Oct 19, 2021 15:33:59 GMT
yes and the newer ones have remotes which i prefer
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