Monoblock Archives - Halium Solutions

Lux91 MonoMax monoblocks one dead

3 March 2023 (reading time 2 minutes)

Customer brought in a couple of Lux91 300B-based amps, one suddenly stopped working. First off noticed customer had inadvertently managed to remove and reinsert the 300B 4-pin valve rotated 90 degrees (as a ‘diy’ check swapping valves between units) prior to bringing to me which of course failed to fix anything. Thankfully nothing damaged being […]

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Cary 300se Monoblock Amps

A friend reported intermittent issues with loud pops from one of speakers connected to his Cary 300SE monobloc setup. After some diagnosing swapping leads round to rule out the preamp, the issue stayed with one of the monoblocks. Suspected perhaps intermittent shorting of high voltage capacitor plates. Brought them over and found quite a number