In the 1970 and 80’s I was a Luxman Dealer. They offered a dealer great repair and replacement services. Very rarely did I need to use it. The products sold themselves in sound, looks and quality. The greatest difficulty was the availability of some of the tubes. The designer of the transformers was the founder of Esoteric Audio Research. We were dealers for his products also. The Luxman sound was crisp by with spaciousness only found with tubes valves) I did notice a change in quality with the Alpine takeover. Never a disaster just an inconvience to the customer. Your absolutely correct with the harmonic distortion,but very miusical that made some of the Luxman sell so well! We did not sell the turntables as the were in extremes of value from low to excessive in value! At the time we were allowed to”cherry pick” the line.
Thanks for explaining that tube sound,I took my son a while back to guitar center,I told him to play guitar first on a solid state amp ,then a tube amp,after that he wouldn't play on a solid state amp again ,and I watched other customer do the same ,my son really doesn't no what a vacuum is I did my best to explain to him ,but he new what sounded good to him and most of the other customers.
Wow, brings back some memories!! I remember Carver doing something like that, some type of tube pre-amp hybrid. I had a lot of fun playing around with tubes in the early 90's. Single ended triode, 300B was my second build, but the first was a 7951A Pentode, made from recycled parts given to me. Great video and I like the video quality. (The Sony 4k must be sweet!)
The 4K is a beast to work with, New editing software to learn. Should be fun. As to the old school tubes, they have really made a comeback over the past few years. I use a Yaqin now, which is a really basic Chinese made full tube amp that sounds fantastic. I use this in my studio where I do my serious music listening. I figured that tubes would disapear, but they are still the choice of many audiophiles.
It does have a very good sound. This amplifier was really expensive. I bought it in 2004 I think, and I paid about 2,200.00 it way back then, and that was a lot of money, especially for a 60WPC amplifier, but it had superior sound to most other amps I compared it to. It is my studio amplifier for my monitors, which are Altec Lansing 3 way studio monitors.
Loved the video learned a lot I have for 2 weeks the 105LV U .The question I have is what cleaner gives the best result too overhaul the knobs from dust etc etc..?
Very nice gear. I have Luxman lv-101 (paired with nice vintage Braun/ADS Ls70 speakers) and it were 2/3 of the price of lv-103, but yet, it's very nice sounding. It's warm, musical and full of life. I think I will never gonna sell mine, I will have it till it die in my house on my sofa..
Yes I agree the Luxman units were well designed. Very good sound,a nd well built. I have yet to find an amp that sounds as good as this one. I wish I had sprung for the LV107U as that was the 105WPC Hybrid, the last one they made. These were very expensive amps mind you, and when I bought mine in 1984 it was over 2,000.00 and the higher powered units were even more. That was a lot of money for an amp back then.
+Reg Scriven Tube amps, also known as valve amps produce a different sound than solid state which to many people produce better sound.In reality this is not the case though, but the human ear is not perfect, and to many folks they sound nicer. Truth be known a tube amp is far from a clean amp. Early solid state amplifiers were quite dirty, and produced nasty odd order harmonic distortion, whereas tube amps produced even order harmonic distortion. By even order harmonics, all the frequencies are in phase and when they mix in the amplifier stages they give a warm fuzzy sound that is pleasing to the ears especially when it is an electric guitar, or a Hammond B3.Modern solid state amplifiers are exceptionally clean. You get out exactly what went in. If you put a pure sign wave in, you get a pure sign wave out, just a bigger signal. A valve on the other hand, once electrons fly past the control grid, and head to the plate, they can and do land in a random pattern, and this adds a slight bit of even order harmonic distortion that really adds warmth to the sound.I have solid state amp, 2 full tube amps, a modern amp, and a vintage Macintosh, and this Luxman LV102 hybrid. Out of the all the Lux is my favorite. In fact both my full tube amps are not even in use. Solid state amps have lots of current, whereas tubes do not, they are a voltage amp. When a tube saturates you get tons of even order harmonics and distortion, and depending on if you are using solid state or tube rectification sag. If you are a guitar player you want this. As a HiFi amp, you don't because you are listening to more than a guitar. This is why I prefer the Hybrid.I get the all the benefits of the tube preamp stage, that is the even order harmonics that warms up the sound tremendously, but because the output stage is MOSFET there is LOTS of current, and excellent speaker dampening that a solid state amp delivers, and pretty much instant recovery. It is hard to describe in words, all I know is it doesn't matter what I listen to, be it vinyl, analog tape, CD, Digital tape or even crappy MP3s the hybrid amp is clearer on every source, followed by the modern Chinese tube amp, then the vintage MacIntosh and all the solid state amps behind that. I have done careful listening in my studio, and after not using the Luxman for several years when I was on my 100% tube eargasm, I connected the luxman to test it out after servicing it when I did this video, and was blown away by the sound, and fell in love with it again, banishing my tube gear to the living room when it just looks pretty sitting atop a stand. Its a great conversation piece, but in my studio the 30+ year old Luxman is my main amp.
Thank you for the explanation, i worked as a tv repair man back in the 70's to 80's. This was quite an interesting time as it saw the change from the valve through the hybrid to the fully solid state.Well i am retired now and derive much pleasure watching programmes such as your's, brings back memories KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. And a MERRY XMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR
+Reg Scriven Yes same here. I was in the business from basically 79 till 2003.I started my apprentice when I was still in high school, by 83 I had by certificate in electronics proficiency. Worked in the consumer electronics repair business full time from 84 to 2003. It was on my 40th birthday I work up early. I was used to getting a call from my mother at 5:47 in the morning to wish me a happy birthday. (yes I dam near busted a gut when I first saw the movie "City slickers" when Billy Crystals character gets the phone call in the middle of the night from his mother to wish him a happy birthday. I was just sitting there in the dark, and my wife work up and asked me what I was doing, and I said to her, I am done as a technician. I could see how technology was going and I didn't like what I saw made that decision that I had to do something else as I knew there was no future in electronics repair. Within 3 months I was out of that business, and into a completely different industry. One that others had said was a dead industry, but you know what, the phone company has been very good to me for the past 11 years, and it isn't going away anytime soon. We might not be installing phones as much as before with technology changes, but high speed internet and IPTV content delivery is going like gang busters, with no end in sight. I have seen ADSL come in, then fiber to the corner with last mile VDSL, and now fiber to the house is getting going, as the demand for more and more bandwidth just explodes. Now the electronics servicing side of things is just a hobby, but I have lots of knowledge in this field to share.
+ducklandwikeno Its a great amp. I drive a pair of 6ohm Altec Lansing speakers in my studio with it. The phono preamp has a problem, so I will be servicing it again one of these days.
Tubes produce even order harmonics. Second harmonic for say the note A, is A one octive higher. 4th harmonic is still A 2 octives higher. Odd harmonics an A harmonics an f# then c# ect. Not nice sounding like even.
It is the best sounding amp I own. Needs some work to be done on it as it goes into protection once in awhile, and the phono preamp isn't working, but that will be address in a future video. I still remember the day I bought it at 2001 sound center in Burnaby. I paid 1999.95 for it back in 1984. In todays money that would be about 4800.00 give or take a few $. The salesman was pushing the LV105 as it had an additional 20 WPC, but it was also 400.00 more, and back in 84 I was making only about 10.00 per hour as a technician. I was taking home after tax probably 1300 a month if I was lucky, and was living in an apartment I could barely afford at 400.00 per month. (Remember back in 84 minimum wage here in Canada was only something like 3.15 per hour) The thing that makes this amp sound so good is the 2 technologies. The 2 tubes, which are dual triodes give the warm tube sound. They are what makes this thing sound as good as it does. The power section uses almost indestructable (and now obsolete) power MOSfeT transistors, which are very low impedance devices. It is happy down to 4 ohms. I run a pair of Altec Lansing 305 6 ohm speakers on it. The mosfet transistors have incredible damping factor, and that results in mice, tight powerful bass. Luxman was I believe the first company (I may be wrong) to design and build a hybrid amp, which of course is now done by many companies including high end companies like PS audio. Full tubes amps look cool, and they sound good for sure, but this bad boy sounds every bit as good, and has much better speaker damping than any tube amp, as the output transformer on a tube amp doesn't do much to damp out what the speaker kicks back on hard punchy bass drum thumps. For that reason, I perfer the sound of this one when listening to loud jazz or rock. For background listening where the volume isn't cranked, my home built class A tube amp has an even warmer, more satisfying sound.
Have you ever heard Luxman lv111? I recently acquired one. What is your opinion on this one? It works fine but there is a bit of trouble with the switches--CD and Aux. What is your opinion on this model?
Good vid mate, love those Luxman boom boxes, one thing about 4k is I can see how grubby and disorganised your garage is, but you know where everything is, right? :>) ...I wonder if a macro lens would assist with close up zooms on that camera?
This isn't 4K. It is 1080p at 60 FPS. 4K won't be for the repair vids, but for scenery vids that I will be shooting to showcase my travels, and the Vancouver area. Some people shoot stills for their hobby, I would rather tell the story in video. I already have ideas for a project, just waiting for the right conditions. The repair vids will continue to be done in 1080, and many are done on my old tape based broadcast camera just due to the speed advantage editing. 4K is very slow due to the processing power it takes to do anything. As to the mess in my garage, most of that isn't my stuff. The kids, and wife just dump their old coats, and boxes of crap (that DELL box that is in the shot for example is my daughters computer box. Everyone thinks my garage / workshop is their personal storage area. When spring cleanup comes it will all be going, this time for sure. I said that last time, and totally forgot what day it was and worked that weekend.
Any chance you would be interested in servicing/refreshing my original LV-103? I bought when they first came out, and it really needs a good cleaning on the inside at the very least (switches, reostats, etc?). Hope to hear from you Sir! Angelo
Lux only makes tube equipment under special request nowadays. Sony's US$11,000 C-800G tube microphone is the workhorse of some of the finest recording studios around the world; it uses a specially selected NOS 6AU6 tube which is cooled with a Peltier element, and unfortunately for those who have them they made it very hard to replace.
I have a fault on my LV105. With Bass tone control "in use" the Bass tone control very noisy and results in throwing high volume/ DC to speakers. The amp trips out when it does this but resets. It could be a solder joint etc but wondering if can still buy the pot and if easy to replace? Alternative is I sell it on.
Nice Luxman, I have the luxman L-530 and it has 4 of the led's on each amp driver board, Thank you, now I know what the LED's are for! Mine also has the Ontario hydro sticker on the back. I have a bad To-92 style 2sc2320 on the power supply / protection board. Can you recommend a good replacement for that transistor? are these circuits forgiving when it comes to transistor? If I have to, I can take a 2sc2320 from the phono board and use it on the power supply and put the replacement on the phono board, what would you do?
I don't have a cross reference book handy these days, but you can look up the specs online. If it is just a small signal transistor used for switching there will be a tone of replacements you can use. Just make sure your voltage and current rating are at least as high as the original.
I want its big brother, lv 105, would be perfect for me, currently using a small lv 110 witch sound good, but its weak. Great sounding amps these hybrid amps 😊
+ducklandwikeno I have 2 fill tube amps. A modern yaqin, and a vintage McIntosh. They sound great. I also have the lux man hybrid, and an old again 1710w reel to reel tape recorder with full tube amplifier.
The front panel doesn't open. The tube board actually lifts out from the back. You are in luck, I need to service that unit again as it is giving me some trouble.
fortunately I found some instructions on the net to open the front panel. It's divided into two parts the upper part is harder to open because it has latches. But if we pull it forward carefully it will be safe. And it's easier to change the tube fron the front I think. But now mine is in trouble too. It produces loud hissing sound whenever I press the tone in button.
MIne the phono preamp has a problem, and lately the amp will just go into protection at random, so it is in need of service and will be overhauled in the newr future again.
I have the same amp! Have used it for years through a pair of Altec Lansing Model Fifteens and it's a great combo. It was reassuring to hear you say that the valves rarely fail as I've always worried that would be a problem.
The tubes (valves) in the lv103 are only being used as buffer tubes, to warm up the sound, and introduce the even order harmonics that make these units sound so good. Since they are not putting much power through them they last a long, long time. Mine are original tubes, been running since 84 when I bought it, and my amp gets LOTS of use. I leave the preheat turned ON to keep the tubes warm, as that prevents thermal stress on the filiments and cathode from expansion / contraction, That also greatly improves the life.The tubes are readily available anyway, as are most audio tubes, as they still make tubes. High end amps use them. My living room amp is a full tube unit.
I remember people telling me I was crazy when I bought this unit, as it was stupid expensive. 33 years later, still working, no problem other than a couple caps, and switches that need cleaning. Still sounds fantastic. Original tubes too!
Anybody ever hear of an amplifier made by VSP labs? They were produced "hand made" meaning all components were manually soldered and put together by a assembler tech. No assembly line!! They were by many audio savvy people rated as top notch amps that had the warm clear sound of tube amps. The company had only one location based in Ann Arbor Mi. The big problem now, is that certain semiconductor components were discontinued and unavailable many years ago. The company went out of business many years ago as well.
+service1956 Haven't heard of them, but have STL. (Space tech labs)STL is a high end boutique amplifier manufacture in Vancouver BC Canada, and they build all their amps by hand. They also only sell direct from the factory, so no retail outlets, no middlemen. Price is high, but you get what you pay for, and I have heard their amps, and it was unbelievable. Mine you the system I heard cost more than what I paid for my house but....
Sorry to break it to you but tube amplifiers are not preferred because of their THD but because them being current sources, as opposed to solid states behave more like voltage source, at least the ones which have >100 damping factor.
@@ffantom6934 No, have not opened it yet to check out. One of these days I will get around to servicing it again. Have to disconnect it and take into the workshop. I haven't been using the phono section because I don't listen to vinyl much. I'll get to it soon.
Did you check continuity between the AC plug prongs when you turn on the switches? You should see the resistance of the transformer primary. If not then you either have a bad power switch, or one of the internal thermal cutouts on the transformer has gone open.
12voltvids i have continuity from ac prongs. thermal cutoff are located inside the transformer windings?? or on board?? i watched all ur vids one night for 6 hrs!! great job.
300 bucks off ebay for one . I wouldn't mine having one of these but I don't have room in my house now .if I did I would be buying this now .the one I seen is in Chicago not too far from where I live .
+ducklandwikeno Yes they are holding on to their value. When it was new I paid about 2,000.00 for it, and in 1984 that was a ton of money. Back then I was being 9.53 an hour by the Sony Corp. That is what they paid a video tech back then. The audio guys made 6.50 an hour. By comparision a McDonalds or 7-11 worker made 2.10 an hour!
Picture shouldn't jump on HFR. It is actually smoother than low frame rate, but youtube sometimes down samples to 30FPS. I have found that if I render out my old AVCHD camera into MP4 the picture is not as clear, so I normally render out in MPG2. The new camera has AVCHD-S and it is already playing havoc with my editing software. I have yet to try 4K shooting as I am unable to even play that on my computer yet, and I have a very fast machine, an i7 with 16 gigs ram, and over 10Tb of local storage. Will have to find a codec for my player.
In the 1970 and 80’s I was a Luxman Dealer. They offered a dealer great repair and replacement services. Very rarely did I need to use it. The products sold themselves in sound, looks and quality. The greatest difficulty was the availability of some of the tubes. The designer of the transformers was the founder of Esoteric Audio Research. We were dealers for his products also. The Luxman sound was crisp by with spaciousness only found with tubes valves) I did notice a change in quality with the Alpine takeover. Never a disaster just an inconvience to the customer. Your absolutely correct with the harmonic distortion,but very miusical that made some of the Luxman sell so well! We did not sell the turntables as the were in extremes of value from low to excessive in value! At the time we were allowed to”cherry pick” the line.
No matter how wondrous modern technology is, nothing beats vacuum tubes.
Thanks for explaining that tube sound,I took my son a while back to guitar center,I told him to play guitar first on a solid state amp ,then a tube amp,after that he wouldn't play on a solid state amp again ,and I watched other customer do the same ,my son really doesn't no what a vacuum is I did my best to explain to him ,but he new what sounded good to him and most of the other customers.
Thanks for the tech service tips that I will use to fix my Luxman R115. that I luv the sound of. Appreciate it.
Wow, brings back some memories!! I remember Carver doing something like that, some type of tube pre-amp hybrid. I had a lot of fun playing around with tubes in the early 90's. Single ended triode, 300B was my second build, but the first was a 7951A Pentode, made from recycled parts given to me. Great video and I like the video quality. (The Sony 4k must be sweet!)
The 4K is a beast to work with, New editing software to learn.
Should be fun. As to the old school tubes, they have really made a comeback over the past few years. I use a Yaqin now, which is a really basic Chinese made full tube amp that sounds fantastic. I use this in my studio where I do my serious music listening. I figured that tubes would disapear, but they are still the choice of many audiophiles.
Hey dude ! Just wanted to thank you for your videos, they have helped me a lot during my repairs ;) Cheers !
Boy your amp sounds fantastic!..............
It does have a very good sound. This amplifier was really expensive. I bought it in 2004 I think, and I paid about 2,200.00 it way back then, and that was a lot of money, especially for a 60WPC amplifier, but it had superior sound to most other amps I compared it to. It is my studio amplifier for my monitors, which are Altec Lansing 3 way studio monitors.
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Loved the video learned a lot I have for 2 weeks the 105LV U .The question I have is what cleaner gives the best result too overhaul the knobs from dust etc etc..?
Deoxit d5 works good.
Very nice gear. I have Luxman lv-101 (paired with nice vintage Braun/ADS Ls70 speakers) and it were 2/3 of the price of lv-103, but yet, it's very nice sounding. It's warm, musical and full of life. I think I will never gonna sell mine, I will have it till it die in my house on my sofa..
Yes I agree the Luxman units were well designed. Very good sound,a nd well built. I have yet to find an amp that sounds as good as this one. I wish I had sprung for the LV107U as that was the 105WPC Hybrid, the last one they made. These were very expensive amps mind you, and when I bought mine in 1984 it was over 2,000.00 and the higher powered units were even more. That was a lot of money for an amp back then.
Valve amps ARE THE BEST in my opinion. Good stuff.
+Reg Scriven Tube amps, also known as valve amps produce a different sound than solid state which to many people produce better sound.In reality this is not the case though, but the human ear is not perfect, and to many folks they sound nicer. Truth be known a tube amp is far from a clean amp. Early solid state amplifiers were quite dirty, and produced nasty odd order harmonic distortion, whereas tube amps produced even order harmonic distortion. By even order harmonics, all the frequencies are in phase and when they mix in the amplifier stages they give a warm fuzzy sound that is pleasing to the ears especially when it is an electric guitar, or a Hammond B3.Modern solid state amplifiers are exceptionally clean. You get out exactly what went in. If you put a pure sign wave in, you get a pure sign wave out, just a bigger signal. A valve on the other hand, once electrons fly past the control grid, and head to the plate, they can and do land in a random pattern, and this adds a slight bit of even order harmonic distortion that really adds warmth to the sound.I have solid state amp, 2 full tube amps, a modern amp, and a vintage Macintosh, and this Luxman LV102 hybrid. Out of the all the Lux is my favorite. In fact both my full tube amps are not even in use. Solid state amps have lots of current, whereas tubes do not, they are a voltage amp. When a tube saturates you get tons of even order harmonics and distortion, and depending on if you are using solid state or tube rectification sag. If you are a guitar player you want this. As a HiFi amp, you don't because you are listening to more than a guitar. This is why I prefer the Hybrid.I get the all the benefits of the tube preamp stage, that is the even order harmonics that warms up the sound tremendously, but because the output stage is MOSFET there is LOTS of current, and excellent speaker dampening that a solid state amp delivers, and pretty much instant recovery. It is hard to describe in words, all I know is it doesn't matter what I listen to, be it vinyl, analog tape, CD, Digital tape or even crappy MP3s the hybrid amp is clearer on every source, followed by the modern Chinese tube amp, then the vintage MacIntosh and all the solid state amps behind that. I have done careful listening in my studio, and after not using the Luxman for several years when I was on my 100% tube eargasm, I connected the luxman to test it out after servicing it when I did this video, and was blown away by the sound, and fell in love with it again, banishing my tube gear to the living room when it just looks pretty sitting atop a stand. Its a great conversation piece, but in my studio the 30+ year old Luxman is my main amp.
Thank you for the explanation, i worked as a tv repair man back in the 70's to 80's. This was quite an interesting time as it saw the change from the valve through the hybrid to the fully solid state.Well i am retired now and derive much pleasure watching programmes such as your's, brings back memories KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. And a MERRY XMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR
+Reg Scriven Yes same here. I was in the business from basically 79 till 2003.I started my apprentice when I was still in high school, by 83 I had by certificate in electronics proficiency. Worked in the consumer electronics repair business full time from 84 to 2003. It was on my 40th birthday I work up early. I was used to getting a call from my mother at 5:47 in the morning to wish me a happy birthday. (yes I dam near busted a gut when I first saw the movie "City slickers" when Billy Crystals character gets the phone call in the middle of the night from his mother to wish him a happy birthday. I was just sitting there in the dark, and my wife work up and asked me what I was doing, and I said to her, I am done as a technician. I could see how technology was going and I didn't like what I saw made that decision that I had to do something else as I knew there was no future in electronics repair. Within 3 months I was out of that business, and into a completely different industry. One that others had said was a dead industry, but you know what, the phone company has been very good to me for the past 11 years, and it isn't going away anytime soon. We might not be installing phones as much as before with technology changes, but high speed internet and IPTV content delivery is going like gang busters, with no end in sight. I have seen ADSL come in, then fiber to the corner with last mile VDSL, and now fiber to the house is getting going, as the demand for more and more bandwidth just explodes. Now the electronics servicing side of things is just a hobby, but I have lots of knowledge in this field to share.
The sound is unreal over my phone and headphones
Yes this is one of the nicer sounding amps I have.
good amp I can hear the quality amp .luxman was always good stuff
+ducklandwikeno Its a great amp. I drive a pair of 6ohm Altec Lansing speakers in my studio with it. The phono preamp has a problem, so I will be servicing it again one of these days.
Yes It's all about which Harmonic the distortion's are produced.....learned that from a John Curl lecture
Tubes produce even order harmonics. Second harmonic for say the note A, is A one octive higher. 4th harmonic is still A 2 octives higher. Odd harmonics an A harmonics an f# then c# ect. Not nice sounding like even.
I just bought my firt Luxman LV110 :) Great sound. Thanks for this video, bye bye
Have one aswell, sounds great to me 😊
What a great sounding amp,you can here where the money went!
It is the best sounding amp I own. Needs some work to be done on it as it goes into protection once in awhile, and the phono preamp isn't working, but that will be address in a future video.
I still remember the day I bought it at 2001 sound center in Burnaby. I paid 1999.95 for it back in 1984. In todays money that would be about 4800.00 give or take a few $.
The salesman was pushing the LV105 as it had an additional 20 WPC, but it was also 400.00 more, and back in 84 I was making only about 10.00 per hour as a technician. I was taking home after tax probably 1300 a month if I was lucky, and was living in an apartment I could barely afford at 400.00 per month. (Remember back in 84 minimum wage here in Canada was only something like 3.15 per hour) The thing that makes this amp sound so good is the 2 technologies. The 2 tubes, which are dual triodes give the warm tube sound. They are what makes this thing sound as good as it does. The power section uses almost indestructable (and now obsolete) power MOSfeT transistors, which are very low impedance devices. It is happy down to 4 ohms. I run a pair of Altec Lansing 305 6 ohm speakers on it. The mosfet transistors have incredible damping factor, and that results in mice, tight powerful bass. Luxman was I believe the first company (I may be wrong) to design and build a hybrid amp, which of course is now done by many companies including high end companies like PS audio. Full tubes amps look cool, and they sound good for sure, but this bad boy sounds every bit as good, and has much better speaker damping than any tube amp, as the output transformer on a tube amp doesn't do much to damp out what the speaker kicks back on hard punchy bass drum thumps. For that reason, I perfer the sound of this one when listening to loud jazz or rock. For background listening where the volume isn't cranked, my home built class A tube amp has an even warmer, more satisfying sound.
I own a LV-103 too. Very good sound & qualitiy. Looks nice too.
I have also a LV-110, a LV-111 and a L-410.
I have a lv-110 too! How does it compare to the lv-103?
110 too here. Bought it used 6 years ago and it's going strong. Cost only 50€
Have you ever heard Luxman lv111? I recently acquired one. What is your opinion on this one? It works fine but there is a bit of trouble with the switches--CD and Aux. What is your opinion on this model?
Any idea on how to fix the load popping coming threw the speakers only when turning the bass nob left or right?
ha i had my left on my right and my right on my left dang it using my system like this for many months and never even realized till you said something
Hi master.! respekt
Good vid mate, love those Luxman boom boxes, one thing about 4k is I can see how grubby and disorganised your garage is, but you know where everything is, right? :>) ...I wonder if a macro lens would assist with close up zooms on that camera?
This isn't 4K. It is 1080p at 60 FPS.
4K won't be for the repair vids, but for scenery vids that I will be shooting to showcase my travels, and the Vancouver area. Some people shoot stills for their hobby, I would rather tell the story in video. I already have ideas for a project, just waiting for the right conditions. The repair vids will continue to be done in 1080, and many are done on my old tape based broadcast camera just due to the speed advantage editing. 4K is very slow due to the processing power it takes to do anything.
As to the mess in my garage, most of that isn't my stuff. The kids, and wife just dump their old coats, and boxes of crap (that DELL box that is in the shot for example is my daughters computer box. Everyone thinks my garage / workshop is their personal storage area. When spring cleanup comes it will all be going, this time for sure. I said that last time, and totally forgot what day it was and worked that weekend.
I have a 110 bought it used for 50€ six years ago. It goes well the volume knob under a certain circumstance is noisy. But nothing serious.
Any chance you would be interested in servicing/refreshing my original LV-103? I bought when they first came out, and it really needs a good cleaning on the inside at the very least (switches, reostats, etc?). Hope to hear from you Sir!
Angelo
No problem
Lux only makes tube equipment under special request nowadays.
Sony's US$11,000 C-800G tube microphone is the workhorse of some of the finest recording studios around the world; it uses a specially selected NOS 6AU6 tube which is cooled with a Peltier element, and unfortunately for those who have them they made it very hard to replace.
Nice collection of songs.
I have a fault on my LV105. With Bass tone control "in use" the Bass tone control very noisy and results in throwing high volume/ DC to speakers. The amp trips out when it does this but resets. It could be a solder joint etc but wondering if can still buy the pot and if easy to replace? Alternative is I sell it on.
Nice Luxman, I have the luxman L-530 and it has 4 of the led's on each amp driver board, Thank you, now I know what the LED's are for!
Mine also has the Ontario hydro sticker on the back.
I have a bad To-92 style 2sc2320 on the power supply / protection board. Can you recommend a good replacement for that transistor? are these circuits forgiving when it comes to transistor? If I have to, I can take a 2sc2320 from the phono board and use it on the power supply and put the replacement on the phono board, what would you do?
I don't have a cross reference book handy these days, but you can look up the specs online. If it is just a small signal transistor used for switching there will be a tone of replacements you can use. Just make sure your voltage and current rating are at least as high as the original.
I want its big brother, lv 105, would be perfect for me, currently using a small lv 110 witch sound good, but its weak. Great sounding amps these hybrid amps 😊
6.3 volts for the tubes?
did sombady know were to find those luxman lv-105u ?i'l preshiat you
tubes are better you remember the old Magnavox stereo consoles from the 1960's I have one after that and man all I can tell you is it sounds great too
+ducklandwikeno I have 2 fill tube amps. A modern yaqin, and a vintage McIntosh. They sound great. I also have the lux man hybrid, and an old again 1710w reel to reel tape recorder with full tube amplifier.
hi, sir..
would you please make a tutorial of how to open front panel and change the tube?
thanks
The front panel doesn't open. The tube board actually lifts out from the back. You are in luck, I need to service that unit again as it is giving me some trouble.
fortunately I found some instructions on the net to open the front panel. It's divided into two parts the upper part is harder to open because it has latches. But if we pull it forward carefully it will be safe. And it's easier to change the tube fron the front I think. But now mine is in trouble too. It produces loud hissing sound whenever I press the tone in button.
MIne the phono preamp has a problem, and lately the amp will just go into protection at random, so it is in need of service and will be overhauled in the newr future again.
Can you bridge it?
60fps on Chrome on a Core i5 works well.
I have the same amp! Have used it for years through a pair of Altec Lansing Model Fifteens and it's a great combo. It was reassuring to hear you say that the valves rarely fail as I've always worried that would be a problem.
The tubes (valves) in the lv103 are only being used as buffer tubes, to warm up the sound, and introduce the even order harmonics that make these units sound so good. Since they are not putting much power through them they last a long, long time. Mine are original tubes, been running since 84 when I bought it, and my amp gets LOTS of use. I leave the preheat turned ON to keep the tubes warm, as that prevents thermal stress on the filiments and cathode from expansion / contraction, That also greatly improves the life.The tubes are readily available anyway, as are most audio tubes, as they still make tubes. High end amps use them. My living room amp is a full tube unit.
God I want one of these
I remember people telling me I was crazy when I bought this unit, as it was stupid expensive. 33 years later, still working, no problem other than a couple caps, and switches that need cleaning. Still sounds fantastic. Original tubes too!
Yeah , I wish I could find one of these. This would go GREAT with my Polk Audios
Anybody ever hear of an amplifier made by VSP labs? They were produced "hand made" meaning all components were manually soldered and put together by a assembler tech. No assembly line!! They were by many audio savvy people rated as top notch amps that had the warm clear sound of tube amps. The company had only one location based in Ann Arbor Mi. The big problem now, is that certain semiconductor components were discontinued and unavailable many years ago. The company went out of business many years ago as well.
+service1956 Haven't heard of them, but have STL. (Space tech labs)STL is a high end boutique amplifier manufacture in Vancouver BC Canada, and they build all their amps by hand. They also only sell direct from the factory, so no retail outlets, no middlemen. Price is high, but you get what you pay for, and I have heard their amps, and it was unbelievable. Mine you the system I heard cost more than what I paid for my house but....
Sorry to break it to you but tube amplifiers are not preferred because of their THD but because them being current sources, as opposed to solid states behave more like voltage source, at least the ones which have >100 damping factor.
this defects gives their warm sound .
High end amps such as, Arcam, Cambridge audio, Roksan do not have any bass or treble controls.
Integrated amps do, and those controls are on your preamp. They can be switched off.
Good video
Hi guys.. Have a luxman lv 105u.. Dead phono section... Cleaning?... Thanks for any help
Phone section is dead on mine too. Fix some day coming.
@@12voltvids please tell me what you did...on my pension!...its pretty expensive to fix at a audio service shop
@@12voltvids did u find out what the problem is?...just to open tbe thing is between 60 to 80. Canadian!...
@@ffantom6934 No, have not opened it yet to check out. One of these days I will get around to servicing it again. Have to disconnect it and take into the workshop. I haven't been using the phono section because I don't listen to vinyl much. I'll get to it soon.
@@12voltvids .. I've go so many offers from people to buy the thing even with a non working phone section...not sure what to do.
You made a mistake you sure its a luxman LV-102 . It looks more like the LV-103U model from hifiengine
+ducklandwikeno Don't know where you got LV102 from, it's an LV103, not the LV103U, the original from 1984. I even say that on the video at 1:28 mark.
have one. no power. chked fuses all ok. what can be prob??
Did you check continuity between the AC plug prongs when you turn on the switches? You should see the resistance of the transformer primary.
If not then you either have a bad power switch, or one of the internal thermal cutouts on the transformer has gone open.
12voltvids i have continuity from ac prongs. thermal cutoff are located inside the transformer windings?? or on board?? i watched all ur vids one night for 6 hrs!! great job.
300 bucks off ebay for one . I wouldn't mine having one of these but I don't have room in my house now .if I did I would be buying this now .the one I seen is in Chicago not too far from where I live .
+ducklandwikeno Yes they are holding on to their value. When it was new I paid about 2,000.00 for it, and in 1984 that was a ton of money. Back then I was being 9.53 an hour by the Sony Corp. That is what they paid a video tech back then. The audio guys made 6.50 an hour. By comparision a McDonalds or 7-11 worker made 2.10 an hour!
Could anyone out there be able to help with questions about a luxman Lviv-103
Stop immediately!!!
Now clean up your disgusting workbench before you do anything else or else you can't go out to play.
Roger Onslow
My bench is actually pretty clean in this one.
just thought I would pass it on to you that I myself am not a fan of the high frame rate, make the picture jump
Picture shouldn't jump on HFR. It is actually smoother than low frame rate, but youtube sometimes down samples to 30FPS.
I have found that if I render out my old AVCHD camera into MP4 the picture is not as clear, so I normally render out in MPG2. The new camera has AVCHD-S and it is already playing havoc with my editing software.
I have yet to try 4K shooting as I am unable to even play that on my computer yet, and I have a very fast machine, an i7 with 16 gigs ram, and over 10Tb of local storage. Will have to find a codec for my player.
no early to when I pasted and copied it to google I got that from them
Lv-103
STOP! STOP! STOP! Contactspray helps only for short time... and than the Chemical will destroy the pertinax from the Potentiometer!