Yes we still do the complete OmegaStar 500EX amplifier rebuild for stock Hafler 500 and 600 amplifiers. The price is $1299 plus $38 return shipping.
The input jacks are replaced with high quality gold contact jacks. The output jacks are not replaced unless they are defective. They are very high current rated 5-way binding posts that handle way more than full power and have no effect on the sound at all.
We do not install IEC power connectors. These simply add one more set of contact points to eventually fail, the power cord we use again is rated for way more than continuous full power. The audiophlake end of the industry with wonderful sounding wires, cables, and whatever, is so far removed from good electrical engineering and so full of fraud and bogus prices for snake oil that it makes us gag.
The OmegaStar 500EX puts a brand new state of the art amplifier in your Hafler box. Its our original design, our circuits, and our outstanding musicality, all done with years of experience in testing and measuring and circuit math and careful listening, separating out the BS, discovering the weak links, fixing them, and never being satisfied with the status quo.
Our hard earned long term reputation for providing outstandingly musical audio components has absolutely nothing to do with good sounding parts, after market power cords, or any other voodoo. Its simply good engineering. Not glamorous, not Black Gate caps, not Bee Bee whatevers, but good engineering. Engineering works, witchcraft does not. That simple.
Frank Van Alstine
