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Other than the occasional Chinglish in the PDF files, those AnTeks looked very interesting... and that was before gazing at the price list. Even the big bad boys are priced quite reasonably. Did notice that some models offer multiple secondary windings - might have been useful for the meters in your project. I keep a few of the [maybe now dated] telco wall-warts (snared in building or office clean-outs) in the parts bin as handy sources for low-VA applications like that... as opposed to the consumer grade units, they don't seem to get very warm in normal use.
The Sony is in service as I type, flip'n back-n-forth between it and its new HD sibling. Haven't even popped the lid, no real reason to - worked admirably straight away. It arrived in very questionable package (original retail box with just a few peanuts added) but survived w/o overt damage. That's goodness 'cause this is a real looker with those dark wood side panels. I think this has some of the nicest ergonomics of the tuner collection... I especially like the ability to code-in the 4-character station id for each preset and the antenna attenuator switch that's also memorized by the presets. My two favorite sounding stock tuners, Nikko GammaV and Sansui TU-9900, have yet to be bested for listening comfort. But for signal grabbing and delivering stations as listenable, all the Sonys excel as does the KT-880D (sshhhh, a real performer for, now, robinfeed). Given a reasonable signal, the ST-S550ES is more enjoyable to listen to than its amazing, diminutive HD sibling, but can not sort-out the real tough situations nearly as well. The ST-S550ES does have one unexpected behavior; there's a low power college station about 35mi out that shows about 4-5 bars on the signal meter with good stereo lock and quite a bit of background whitenoise. When I engage the antenna attenuator the signal drops that to 2 bars -- but the whitenoise is almost eliminated, the stereo lock continues and the station is suddenly much more enjoyable. This seems a bit upside down and I suspect there's more than attenuation happening when the switch is engaged.
Cheers,
LarryO
At 05:44 AM 8/20/2008, you wrote:
Hi Larry,
Last night I completed wedging an Antek AN3230 into a Toshiba SC-
665 power amp. Perfect but tight fit. Original power check put it at
68wpc both at 8 Ohm and 70wpc both at 4 Ohm. Obviously the original
toroidal was current starved. The rail voltages would drop
tremendously with applied loads. The Antek put it at 65wpc both at 8
Ohm and 95wpc both at 4 Ohm. Much better regulation and current
delivery. If I could do it over, but I won't, I'd have used the
AN3232 to get a bit more power. Cost? $36 + $10 USPS priority. I also
had to add a 12.6vac, 300ma R.S. transformer and a dropping diode to
keep the meters lit.
BTW, I'm curious....how did you like your sparrow feed Sony?
Ain't this stuff fun?
RFM-
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