In Reply to: Good for you . You're all set to service ARC equipment posted by Wojciech on December 16, 2024 at 11:22:02:
Are you the anti-right-to-repair advocate for manufacturers?I no longer own the ARC amp. The part designations (Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 etc. etc.) are in the schematic, on the PCB, and if the component is too small the part number and value is in the parts list documentation. In any case the manufacturer is transparent and their products are easy to repair by independent shops and some DIY-ers.
And none of the markings were sanded off the parts like they are in paranoid Tom Evans products.
And more U.S. States coming on board
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- What is your problem? - AbeCollins 12:27:52 12/16/24 (37)
- The components designations are sanded off and replaced with color codes - Wojciech 12:51:12 12/16/24 (36)
- The color codes - E-Stat 13:43:13 12/16/24 (34)
- Obviously, but the inscriptions are gone as well - Wojciech 13:58:18 12/16/24 (33)
- RE: Obviously, but the inscriptions are gone as well - kentaja 07:31:00 12/18/24 (4)
- I never said it was nefarious - Wojciech 08:16:22 12/18/24 (3)
- RE: I never said it was nefarious - kentaja 09:01:59 12/18/24 (2)
- RE: I never said it was nefarious - Wojciech 09:50:31 12/18/24 (1)
- And example - Wojciech 10:08:38 12/18/24 (0)
- It was work done for local ARC dealer's customers - Wojciech 14:43:37 12/16/24 (0)
- Cheap out as you will - E-Stat 14:08:24 12/16/24 (26)
- Right to repair is not "cheaping out" as you will - Steve O 13:35:16 12/18/24 (25)
- I'm not an ARC repairman but.... - AbeCollins 09:48:48 12/19/24 (20)
- I guess - E-Stat 18:10:15 12/21/24 (17)
- Severe bass roll-off typical of ARC - AbeCollins 10:23:03 12/24/24 (16)
- Welp, that didn't work - E-Stat 10:56:12 12/24/24 (15)
- Worked perfectly given - AbeCollins 11:26:47 12/24/24 (14)
- The graph doesn't lie... - E-Stat 11:30:08 12/24/24 (13)
- The chart doesn't lie.... - AbeCollins 14:10:30 12/24/24 (12)
- Yes. Really.... - AbeCollins 16:43:14 12/24/24 (10)
- RE: Yes. Really.... - E-Stat 17:07:06 12/24/24 (9)
- "What amps on the market today use 600 ohms?" - Steve O 19:01:24 12/25/24 (8)
- Great reason to pay attention to impedance matching - E-Stat 19:46:39 12/25/24 (7)
- Now you know: there are indeed amps out there with low impedance inputs - Steve O 05:23:49 12/26/24 (6)
- RE: Now you know: there are indeed amps out there with low impedance inputs - Tre' 07:16:01 12/26/24 (0)
- Yes - E-Stat 06:02:54 12/26/24 (4)
- After all this - Steve O 07:55:44 12/26/24 (0)
- "low to high" solves the problems. - Tre' 07:18:45 12/26/24 (2)
- That's what I learned fifty years ago - E-Stat 12:05:47 12/26/24 (1)
- You learned that 50 years ago . . . But ARC apparently learned something different . . . (nt) - Steve O 16:51:54 12/26/24 (0)
- Really? - E-Stat 14:23:41 12/24/24 (0)
- ...but you play one on TV? - 1973shovel 10:36:35 12/19/24 (1)
- ...And I slept at a Holiday Inn Express - AbeCollins 17:35:54 12/20/24 (0)
- Along with being... - E-Stat 13:52:05 12/18/24 (3)
- "No discussion of "sonic's" is necessary" - Steve O 14:55:24 12/18/24 (2)
- See you're locked into 1976 -nt - E-Stat 15:02:09 12/18/24 (1)
- No I'm not locked into 1976. I'm locked into not even considering ARC - Steve O 15:49:44 12/18/24 (0)
- Here is you right to repair crap - Wojciech 13:03:08 12/16/24 (0)