In Reply to: The components designations are sanded off and replaced with color codes posted by Wojciech on December 16, 2024 at 12:51:12:
are the result of testing each and every device and grouping them by electrical characteristics for matching. Which explains the application specific production SKU.Such is found in Mikey's video of the factory many years ago.
Edits: 12/18/24
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Follow Ups
- 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)