hi
i am selling my Bel Canto Set 40 to raise some funds.
asking price is sold.
paypal adds 3%.
the amp is in great condition , comes with the original box.
the amp was upgraded and serviced about a year ago and the following was perfomed as described by the technician:
The main problem with the amp was that it had a poorly manufactured main power transformer. The transformer would come apart causing a variety of problems. A custom transformer was made to solve this problem as Bel Cantos no longer had any new versions of the transformer. All the resistors were upgraded to better higher value ones and also the resistors controlling the plate voltage. The diodes were fine but were upgraded as it was asked for. ( it appears a lot of people believe that changing these will made a huge improvement in sound..........actually only a small change would be achieved since the diodes are not in the single path ).
The amp was completely recalibrated by my technician. My technician did not replace any capacitors as they all were to spec and didn't need replacing. The main problem with the unit was the main power transformer and that has been taken care of and won't need to be replaced again.there is a lot of information and reviews about this amp or its brother the seti40 which is the integrated version ,out there .
i will post more information and photos in the next few days.
i might be open for trades .
amp is sold with chinese 845 tubes and 12ax7 from Electro harmonix.
also available is
a quad of Amperex 12ax7 a quad of GE 5751 tubes.
i have an audiogon feedback of 300 .
user guide manual and specs are here:
http://www.belcantodesign.com/pdfs/Set40_userguide.pdfsome review links:
http://www.audiophilia.com/hardware/seti40.htmhttp://www.sstage.com/revequip/rise36.htmhttp://www.belcantodesign.com/prodrev.php?cat=5http://members.1012surfnet.at/tube.audio/bel_canto_design.htm
