mjs Posted July 10, 2022 Posted July 10, 2022 (edited) Further information: Original owner of this amplifier, unmarked condition, the later model. It has spent most of its life in Melbourne, served me well and I've had it checked by Winovate a couple of times over the years, last time in 2018 they replaced the small capacitors, foam filters and checked bias. It's a brand with quite a deserved reputation in Australia, sadly no longer made but still supported by people like Ron and Lindsay at Winovate. It drives my MG3.7i's very well, perhaps it's a little bit scratchy from cold, but absolutely no problem when up to temperature, in fact I tend to leave it on all the time. It could probably do with another bias check. I can ship in the original crate, with original packing, copy of the manual (such as it was) and some service data from Winovate, probably cost about $200 for careful interstate freight (it's about 40kg all up) Couple of pics: Finally, here's a pretty crappy clip that I put on youtube with an average recording of some Dire Straits, certainly shows that it all works, just not sure if that supports the sale Edited July 10, 2022 by mjs 7
Monkeyboi Posted July 10, 2022 Posted July 10, 2022 The ME-850 is IMHO a great power amplifier. I own an ME-850HC myself. Good to see it has been re-capped. Unfortunately the ME branded electrolytic capacitors tend to go high ESR and start losing some of their capacitance over the decades. Not that many months ago I repaired the power control board in a friend's ME-850 and found all but one of the electrolytic capacitors were low in capacitance and high in ESR. But this isn't uncommon in amplifiers of about this age. At the asking price of $2800 it's a bargain. If I was looking to buy another 850 I'd definitely be interested. GLWTS 2
VinylChef Posted July 10, 2022 Posted July 10, 2022 I'd like to take this please. Sending a message now! 2
t_mike Posted July 10, 2022 Posted July 10, 2022 A perfect mate for the ME 25 pre that was advertised yesterday.
mjs Posted July 10, 2022 Author Posted July 10, 2022 50 minutes ago, t_mike said: A perfect mate for the ME 25 pre that was advertised yesterday. Except that I feel the price of the ME25 was a bit optimistic 2
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