Look what I found for $10

dudeinaroom

I just e-mailed they person saying I would take it
Mitsibishi Amp/Pre/Tuner

dane_peterson

Do you know anything about them? I just saw a very similar package (same gear as that, but another piece and some speakers) for $100. If it's decent equipment, I might have to snag em. At $10, they're worth it just for the solder!

dudeinaroom

I've heard that they are not too bad, but nothing to write home about. IF they work, instant 2CH if I don't care too much for it, I relegate the amp to drive my passive sub.

sk1939

dudeinaroom wrote: »

I've heard that they are not too bad, but nothing to write home about. IF they work, instant 2CH if I don't care too much for it, I relegate the amp to drive my passive sub.

That's the spirit....do you the model numbers?

dudeinaroom

no, just had that crappy pic. Ad said Mitsubishi amp preamp and tuner. It's about 2 hours away, but have some friends and family not to far from. Will see if he will take a check or money order and hold it until I am down that way, if not will try to make other arrangements to get it sooner, if it's still available.

sk1939

dudeinaroom wrote: »

no, just had that crappy pic. Ad said Mitsubishi amp preamp and tuner. It's about 2 hours away, but have some friends and family not to far from. Will see if he will take a check or money order and hold it until I am down that way, if not will try to make other arrangements to get it sooner, if it's still available.

Hmm, well for $10 I think you can sweat it...I'm curious as to what exactly it is...Mitsubishi made some good gear, and some not so good gear....

UPDATE: Found the model of that preamp, it's a Mitsubishi MPF-5351 AV Preamp Tuner.

dudeinaroom

Good change it could be this one. Scroll down to amplifiers first one on the right.

sk1939

dudeinaroom wrote: »

Good change it could be this one. Scroll down to amplifiers first one on the right.

Yup that looks like the amp.....so we've identified 2/3 so far lol....

dudeinaroom

That's really the only part I am worried about. I've got a B&K pre, and a kenwood tuner already sitting idle. I'd just be able to have fun (and drive the wife nuts) and switch stuff in and out. Now I just need to with the Christmas karma and I'd have an instant 2ch set up. I believe that thing puts out 180 in to 4 ohms

sk1939

dudeinaroom wrote: »

That's really the only part I am worried about. I've got a B&K pre, and a kenwood tuner already sitting idle. I'd just be able to have fun (and drive the wife nuts) and switch stuff in and out. Now I just need to with the Christmas karma and I'd have an instant 2ch set up. I believe that thing puts out 180 in to 4 ohms

If it works it should be pretty good, although no idea about how it sounds....I found a Mark Levinson power amp for $500, but didn't jump on it...it's gone now I think....Monitor 10's for $100 too...RT 1000i's for $200...for those interested and around Baltimore

RT 1000i
Monitor 10Bs
LS 90's for $300

Sorry for the thread jack...just wanted to post some good deals found...

cnh

dude..10 bucks...you can't even buy a good dinner for that!! Cool!

cnh

dudeinaroom

The guy got back a hold of me and said the amp cuts out at 1/3 volume. It could just be a bad thermocouple on the heatsinks, don't know. Gonna see if he will hold it for me (2 hr away)if not I will see if I can have a friend or family member pick it up for me. Then I'll check it out if all works out.

dudeinaroom

A friend of my wife's is going to be picking it up tomorrow. Her friend I guess is some what of a music nut. Only thing I know she has is an older set of Infinitys.

dudeinaroom

Well she picked it up. Then we got it from her a few days after. The pre is a Tuner/prepro (dolby,not prologic either) has built in amp for surrounds and a DAC for cd's. The amp was the only part I really wanted. We got it and I about died. If I would have saw it first hand I would have passed. There is some oxidation on the steel on the bottom and back of the amp. The headphone jack on it was smashed as well as the A/B buttons. The "other piece" Is a 5 disc cd transport, no DAC, no RCA's just an optical out. I pulled the tos cable from my multi player and plugged it in to the transport. I about soiled myself. I don't understand how, but it sounds better than my Sony, and Is using the same DAC that is in my Denon AVR.There was a little more clarity in the mid and upper end. The craziest part is it has a sound stage as wide as the sony had with the Adcom separates, but does not have the pin point imaging. Back to the amp. I was skeerd as I opened it up expecting to find a burnt mess. Lucky on that one. She is basically a chip amp. It has 2 STK-4044V in it. Who ever tried to fix this thing before should have stayed away. They pulled the a/b switches apart and drooled some solder acrross the contacts to make it work. They had soldered the left + and right + together on the b switch and then on the A switch had solders both of those pass tru connections to the left -. I pulled the board out, ditched the b outputs and soldered the the inputs(power out puts) from the A/B board directly to the A terminal leads. I left all of the leads long just in case I decide to put in A/B switches. The headphone jack is going to be made into a power switch. Since this thing is not 4 ohm stable I can not hook it up to my SDA's (besides it measures 2.5 ohms across the negatives). It does work 100% now. It is powering my DIY sub with a 10" dual 8 ohm voice coil sub that I salvaged from a Paradigm SB-100. I have my xover set at 40hz( I have SDA 2As and a mon 7 for center. The cheappy surrounds have never complained. It is almost twice as loud as the Onkyo integrated, or the zone 2 out on my Denon. Has a ton more control than the other 2. Now the amp will go in to soft clip(status bar on the front goes from green to orange) and the sub does not bottom out like it did with the other 2. Even if I push it to hard I no longer worry about the sub. I played the fish tank scene from Finding Nemo, and did not bottom out the sub. I pushed it even harder and the amp went into protect befor the sub complained (light on amp went from flickering orange and green to solid red). So I guess 10 bucks for a better amp than what I was using for my sub, and a better cd transport than what I am currently using was worth it.


Later,
dude

Tony M

Looks like you found seperates were as I found a receiver...

I'm amazed at the quality of this Mitsubishi system I put together over a couple of years. Very powerful clean sound! Very well built too.They were very expensive components and the weight seems to reflect their costs.