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Item:ME850 AMP Location: BILAMBIL HEIGHTS Price: $2000 ono Item Condition: Great working condition Reason for selling: Need money asap Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, COD Only Extra Info: Great amp for a great price Pictures:

Hi SNA members please find listed below some of our current pre-loved items on offer! The products listed below are available for inspection but not audition. The components were traded in full working order and will be sold with all faults if any. The ME amplifiers were owned by a single customer and have not been advertised elsewhere at this stage! I have provided web links where available for your further information, however feel free to contact us with any enquires. ME-555 3X100watt power amplifier, Great condition with manual no box $1,600 (not high Cap) PRICE DROP! ME-550 series I 2X100watt power amplifier, Great condition this unit has a series II front facia and has the original packaging plus documentation $800 (not high Cap modified to work with any pre-amp)(SOLD) ME-550 series II 2X100watt power amplifier, Great condition and has the original packaging plus documentation $900 (not high cap) (SOLD) Cambridge Audio 650C CD Player black with Box $150 (SOLD) Denson B420 Silver with Gizmo remote black $1,500 for both EX demo Audio Analogue Paganini silver CD player with box $1,850 EX demo Unison CDE CD player black with box $3,000 EX demo with warranty Arcam AVR-400 AV receiver grey with box $2,000 EX demo with warranty Arcam CD-37 CD player silver with box $1,950 EX demo with warranty Toshiba HDEX1 HDDVD player $100 (SOLD) AMC 3025 2X30watt integrated amplifier no remote $100 Yamaha A-S700 2X90watt integrated amplifier black plus Yamaha CD-S700 CD player black combination with boxes $850 for the two items Vienna Bach Grand loudspeakers with boxes $1,500 the pair Vienna Beethoven Baby Grand with boxes $3,000 the pair (SOLD) Martin Logan Motif active centre speaker with box $2053 Brand new with warranty Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin Mini iPod dock (30pin) with box $355 EX demo with warranty Chord Signature 1.8 meter full range speaker cable with spades both ends $500 the pair Rega SC42 3 meter full range speaker cable with gold Audioquest bananas each end $200 the pair Please call us on 02 9899 9079 or castlehill@sydneyhifi.com.au with any sales enquires, we are happy to help!

Item: ME750 power amp Location: Adelaide. Will post nationally at cost, but it's heavy. Price: EOI Item Condition: Excellent, internally better than new, see below Reason for selling: Downgrading - this is too much amp for me, I've changed to more sensitive speakers Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, Bank Transfer Extra Info: No marks or scratches externally except some slight polishing scuffs on the top, though you'd have to hold the amp up to the light to see them. If you can. Completely rebuild by Paul Fenwick, SA's only qualified ME repairs as recommended by Peter Stein. Bought second hand from a dealer who claimed it was fully serviced, he lied - I spent over half my asking price getting it restored in early 2012. I'll offer a six month warranty if you find any defect, as this amp is built like a tank. Note - you will hear the fan working once you switch it off into 'stand by' mode, as this is a cool down cycle. The fan is inaudible in use. This is not a defect. Paul's build notes from our emails: "In summary the ME750 has been completely rebuilt with new top quality electrolytic capacitors where needed and known trouble spots as well as mods to size and voltage ratings of many electrolytic capacitors as suggested by Peter. This has been performed on all boards in the amplifier including the control board which has also had new IC’s fitted as well as the caps. I have also installed copper shielding around the aux/secondary transformer (supplies voltage for IC’s only) as well as fitting new fan support foam. Repairs to the printed circuit board on one channel were performed and new driver transistors fitted (I see this often and have developed a fix for it that is both electrically and mechanically perfect). Repairs to flat multi core control cables were also undertaken. The ME750 has been running beautifully now for the last 24 hours continuously (soak test and measurements)and sounds stunning. I have just re-biased it yet again and DC offset is now zero as it should be (was 600mV on the left channel which I was not happy with and it turned out to be an intermittent resistor and out of spec zener diode killing the servo IC). New filter material has been fitted and it is filtering as it restricts the air flow just enough to raise the heat sink air temperature by 10-15 degrees C when in place and maintaining an average temp of 55 degrees C over 24 hours at varying volume levels. Time spent on this amp would run into 100’s of hours (21 hours were spent on disassembly of the entire amp and cleaning all the old sticky foam out of every nook and cranny and off the printed circuit boards and components)!" And the nameless dealer I bought it from admits: "The end result however, seems to be that you now have an amplifier with better than new performance and with a replacement value of probably $5500. So although this has been a drawn out exercise the end result is pretty good for your musical enjoyment." Pictures:

Item: ME 850 Power Amplifier Location: Sydney Price: $2400.00 Item Condition: Electronically Excellent; Cosmetically Fair Reason for selling: Upgrading Payment Method: Pickup - Cash Only Extra Info: Hi, For sale is my ME850 Power Amplifier. It’s in good condition electronically, working well in my system at present. It has been checked and serviced by Rage Audio and all is ok – the capacitors have all been replaced, as is usual practice with audio equipment over time. It’s about 20 years old but still performing admirably. Currently paired with an ME25 running Legend Acoustics Kantu 6's. Some extra info on this amplifier - some of this was mentioned earlier in another thread. The black face plate with the power button was made by a local professional engraver (not your average shopping mall engraver) using aluminium and an ME graphic template kindly supplied by Rage Audio so that the lettering is 'authentic'. The aluminium was 'deep fried', 'electrofied' 'electosomething' (can't remember the process); engraved and with gold paint delicately filled in. The same place stripped the air vents on either side of the face plate and gave them two coats of black paint. The foam behind the air vents was replaced by Rage Audio. As mentioned, the caps have been done and the foam around the fan has been replaced too. Its audio performance is, in a word, astonishing! Those seriously interested are welcome to have a listen. Thanks for having a look. Oh, maybe it's electroplating?

A few weeks ago I took a plunge I probably shouldn't have (for financial reasons) and bought an ME25 from ebay. It turns out that the seller is a member of SNA and I sold him that Cyrus integrated that I didn't feel too fondly of about 2 years ago so we did a bit of catching up (it being a small audio world and all). So I took delivery of this ME25, nice construction, same dimensions as that ME240 of mine, aesthetics are nice and simple, cool. A little wear around the selector knob, can't read the "cd" and two others are half worn off but that's just 20 or so years of use and certainly not a big issue in my view. I was told to give it 3 days of warm up before doing any critical listening, so, naturally, I did not! I gave it two hours or so and then just got too damn curious, I had the Halcro system running the day before so I swapped out the DM8 for the ME25 (no point starting out small, let's go straight to the top!) and settled down with my "female vocals in rock" cd. Well I have to say I liked what I heard, the ME25 gave a much more enjoyable rendition of the female voice than the DM8 (and the DM8 does a pretty good job, as well it should). The entire presentation was a bit smoother and slightly more polished than it felt through the DM8, though I will certainly have to give credit to the Halcro pre in the area of minute detail. The Halcro gets the detail right, but the ME gets it "more listen-ably wrong" I guess you could say. The one big difference I noticed was in the bass, the ME/Halcro combo was light on, where as the pure Halcro combo was quite good (as I have said before, the Halcro bass is generally considered to be slightly light on when compared to what people expect and I contribute much of this to people expecting artificially enhance bass in everything that they like and the Halcro doesn't give them that) but this was quite light, even when I was expecting it to be a little light it was just that bit lighter again. Not a deal breaker as such, the rest of the presentation was good enough that I could forgive this one fault. Besides I can always play with the IC and speaker cables later and see if I can squeeze a little more out of the combo, it took a lot of effort to get the Halcro pre/pwr to really sing in the past so I was pretty happy with my purchase on the very first night. On the second night, after leaving the ME25 turned on all day as advised, I had another listen, and guess what, things had changed. The bass available had moved up from light, gone through heavy, past the levels usually associated with Barry White, beyond the strength needed to cause multiple whale beachings and settled in at about a 9.6 on the Richter Scale, colloquially referred to as "Continent Rending". (Was that too much, I have this strange feeling that the previous sentence might have been too much for anyone who ever posted in that "Things I'm sick of hearing in Audio" thread. Sorry guys, maybe you should just stop reading now! But, for those who are continuing to read the small print, I remember the Burson Timekeepers taking a while to settle in to their bass too, does this happen to all Australian built amps? Anybody know?) Wow! This was bass that was so deep and so slick* and sort of mellow (but a fast flowing mellow, if that makes any sense) that it was instantly addictive, it just sounded so damn good! And not only does it sound so damn good but it does not get in the way of the mids or the top end at all, so it is extremely well behaved bass in addition to being amazingly capable. The massive sound stage of the Halcro combined with the slick, dark background of the ME is an awesome combo. Listeners who like detail and precision may well prefer the Halcro DM8 but for me the combination of the ME25 "polish" and the Halcro DM38 "Tower of Power" gives a sonic presentation that is both pleasant to hear and very emotive, you can feel the music (in your ears and in your chest!) and it is one hell of an experience. I wholeheartedly recommend this combo to anyone who has the chance to hear it! I understand that Halcro DM amps are thin on the ground and stratospheric in price but their MC series (currently available for a big discount for readers of SNA, thanks Mike) is very reasonably priced so one of those fed by an ME pre is also likely to perform very well. I didn't stop there of course, I ran the ME25 with the Burson Timekeepers in their monoblock configuration and rather enjoyed that combo too, a less powerful presence than the Halcro, with less bass and a more open top end. It probably rates very well as a combo but I'm still overawed by the ME/Halcro combination so I'm not sure I can be trusted to be objective on this just yet, maybe in a few weeks, when I've had time for the excitement to die down. The ME25/ME240 combo is very good too, very honest and yet very enjoyable to listen to. I'm not sure the ME240 is giving me everything it can, it is over 25 years old. I have to find employment so I can send it to Zaphod for servicing, until I can do that it probably isn't a fair comparison, even though I'm quite happy with it in general. I've put this Thread up as a poll (my first, hope it works) because I've seen many threads regarding ME products that drag on (and decend into the argument abyss) and I'm interested in comments from people who may have opinions based on experience with the brand rather than opinions based on experience with others who may, or may not, have experience with the brand. In addition to the poll I've got a question, has anyone else out there ever matched up an ME pre and a Halcro power amp? I'm wondering if I'm the first to put these two Aussie Icons together. *Slick, a combination of slippery and smooth (smooth often brings to mind a sort of slow bass that lingers and this is not that at all so slick is a sort of "fast, articulate kind of smooth").

New member Dave (Art Vandelay around these parts) and old friend George will be bringing a real treat to the March meeting. Both Dave and George have extensive modification experience. Dave has documented and has reported success in modifying ME amplifiers to improve the performance from an already very good platform. George is enjoying global success with his Lightspeed Attenuator LDR passive and claims transformative improvements to the Cary CD player via his I/V modifications. A not-too-heavy technical presentation including a PowerPoint projection will be preceding the listening sessions. Here's what Dave/Art Vandelay has sent as a synopsis: >>>Modifications to ME amplifiers and Cary 303/200 CDP. For the coming month, George and I will be showcasing some of our modified equipment. This will include a power point presentation that outlines the modifications (improvements) that I've implemented in several models of ME amplifiers. I'll begin with a basic overview of the ME topology, discussing what I believe to be the relative strengths and weaknesses of the basic design, and hence the reasons for implementing modifications. The presentation will include some schematic excerpts from various models as well as screen shots of before & after measurements and simulations, plus some pictorials of the mods themselves. I'll also outline what I believe to be the subjective benefits of the modifications. George will follow with a tutorial on his novel feedback-free I-V stage implementation in his Cary 303/200 A brief Q&A session will follow the presentations, prior to the audio demonstration. The equipment for the audio demonstration will consist of: 1x Modified ME1400 stereo power amplifier 1x Modified ME25 stereo preamplifier 1x pair of Vintage Infinity Renaissance 90 loudspeakers (with modified crossovers) 1x modified Cary 303/200 CD player 1x Lightspeed attenuator 1x Wyred4Sound DAC2SE 1x PS Audio PWT. 1x Streacom based silent PC with SSD's. (using a 4TH gen i7 processor with just 35W TPD) Music will consist of some audiophile HD track downloads as well as regular RBCDs and rips from our collections, and we’ll interchange between the CDP and PC based source so that members can pass judgement. I think you’ll find the presentations informative and interesting, and the equipment should all make for a very fine all-round audio experience, so I hope to see you all there. Regards David<<< Details below and guests are welcomed. Date: Sunday 1 March 2015 Time: Starts 2pm to 5pm Where: Epping Creative Centre (in the Epping Aquatic Centre Complex) 26 Stanley Road, EPPING NSW

I would like to know what these amps are worth: ME24 (steel case, excellent condition inside and out) ME200 (bought new 1997, MINT condition) I have the original boxes for both. Cheers

G'day everyone. Recently I've come into the possession of a ME100 amplifier after someone left it out for council pickup. On start up it blows its fuse (2.5A 250V). opened it up to find a regulator bolt shorting it to a transistor. i separated the two, it's still blowing fuses. The Left Chanel still plays beautifully, so it hasnt blown the transformer (although, i have a hunch that the transformer is indestructible. just looking at it). i know there are a few guys on here that are well versed in ME amps. I would just replace both components, but i've heard that a lot of care goes onto choosing components for these amps. Any recommendations? i would appreciate any advice.

Would prefer one with a phono stage and in good condition. Ideally an upgraded model but I know these are rarer. I have spoken to Zaphod and he has some good options for me so just seeing if there is anything else out there.