Hi, I have an Arcam AVR200 I bought it ages ago as spares and repairs off eBay for £45. I have listened to a friends 200 and thought it was amazing. Anyway as it said in the EBay description, all channels have a buzzing sound, like a bad earth. It does have a buzzing, which in honesty is only mildly annoying when no sound is being put through it, in other words during breaks. I have done the standard things .. tried it with just one speaker connected , even took it to my friends to see if its maybe the power in my house although I have other audio equipment that this does not effect. After reading the forums threads with similar problems it seems to be a good start to replace the smoothing caps. So my first attempt at a fix is to replace the smoothing caps on the main amp board, they are 63v 10000uf RL 35X which from a quick search say they are Rubycons . The advice Im after is what do I replace them with? Im hopefully trying to achieve an improvement, though what the improvement will be I dont know Im not that technical unfortunatly. I have budget of about £25 for both. I live near CPC in Preston so I have first looked at their stock; there are Panasonics and Vishays from £9 to £12. One of the things I worry about is buying better caps at low price of eBay and finding out they are fakes or are low quality, one of the reason I buy from places like CPC RS etc.
The part number according to the Arcam Service manual is 8910-0078-0 CE 63v 10000uf 20%
One other thing if anyone has time to answer is that I have notice that some are 0.33ohm and 0.35ohm does this make a difference ? Should I aim for higher, lower or an exact replacement?
Thanks
The part number according to the Arcam Service manual is 8910-0078-0 CE 63v 10000uf 20%
One other thing if anyone has time to answer is that I have notice that some are 0.33ohm and 0.35ohm does this make a difference ? Should I aim for higher, lower or an exact replacement?
Thanks