- #CONRAD JOHNSON CAV 50 FOR SALE INSTALL#
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It weighs about 2 pounds, just like a piece of plastic. The only thing I dislike about the genki is that its perceived build quality is pretty bad. My source is very good, a conrad-johnson CAV-50, but it is pretty forgiving. In any case, it had a larger soundstage, but I really liked the 92 as well. It seems to me that the Genki was, well, more genki, which means lively/spirited in Japanese. Hey, I have auditioned both the CD-92 and the Genki on my system too, and I like them both. I also had my speakers set up way closer than usual (at a friends request) so that could of been the cause. It had an airy quality to it, but this is my first taste of a good source, so it could be a good "airiness". I think this is due to the jitter reducing technology, which my cheap player has none (or so it seems). The resolution is very noticable, due to the way low noise floor. I am not doing a comparison, because my source is really bad. That is why my CD player choices have this as a requirement. Yes, it was the first time I have ever heard it, but I do have about 20 HDCD's. Nothing like sitting at the couch w/ remote volume headphones! The HDCD decoding was truly unbelievable. was really cool because I could hook my Meta to the varible outputs, and use the Genki remote for volume. Then when you have more cash, you can get a preamp at later date. One thing you can do is just get an amp and some speakers, and have an inexpensive 2 channel set up in a different room by using the varible output and volume on the Genki. The Genki has 4 sets of outputs, 2 fixed, and 2 variable. There is alot to say but there is one feature that I am growing to love. My usual system: Audio Valve tube mono's 75w, Angstrom Preamp, MMG's. I have a few more to audition, but this player almost has me sold already! Other players I plan on checking out: Arcam CD92, Rotel RCD-1070 or 991, Cary 303, Naim CD5, MMF-25. It does sound good though.I just auditioned this player in my system last night, and it is one sweet piece of equipment. I am surprised that for such an expensive amplifier, they did not use the correct rating diodes to do the job. It seems to me that instead of finding why the relays are chattering in the first place and check the ripple frequency, voltage, look up the spec of the diodes, the they would have known the real reason of the problem.
#CONRAD JOHNSON CAV 50 FOR SALE INSTALL#
So now I will install new bridge in heatsink and mount it to the chassis, I can find 10A diode but it will not solve heat problem.īy the way, I saw a lot of suggestion on line for people to upgrade the cap to 10,000 uF to fix the relay chatter and to improve sound. I temporary hook up the bridge and use 4700uf cap (per Conrad Johnson, CJ told me to send in the unit for repair and will not provide me the circuit diagram) to test and see if the voltage will be normal, now I do have 6VDC, with about 200mV 120Hz ripple frequency. I look up the spec of the tubes, the 4 output tubes alone draw 1.5A each, so add another about 2A for the smaller tubes, the current draw is exceeding the rating of the Diode. It means the diode may be shorted of have leakage, checking with meter show reading in high Meg Ohms range, so I use my LC75 leakage current test, two of the diode show off scale leakage current at 50V scale (GI854 is rated at 3A, 400V ), seeing 3A rating and the location where these Diodes are which the board turned brown so they have been running hot.
#CONRAD JOHNSON CAV 50 FOR SALE FULL#
So something is not right, I check the ripple frequency, it show 60Hz instead of 120Hz for full wave rectification. The AC output of the transformer is just a little over 6VAC, so I expect the DC to be higher than that and should be close to 6VDC at full load by the tube filaments. Check the AC ripple with my Fluke RMS, it shows >1VAC. I check the DC voltage it shows about 4.5VDC which seems to low for 6V filament. I look on line and see that the some of them has 4700uF 25V some of them has 10,000uF (this one has 10,000uF 35V installed by the repair shop). Open it up and it looks like the filter cap for DC power supply for the filament and the audio source selector relays has been replaced.
I turn it on and can hear the relay clicking away for about 1/2 minute and then stop, I can get the sound from the amp through the speakers OK.
#CONRAD JOHNSON CAV 50 FOR SALE PRO#
I have this unit in for repair, it was supposedly repair by the High end pro shop due to clicking sound when it is first turned on and was not as loud as it used to be.