Stephen Sank wrote:
All of AMC's products range from severely mediocre to atrociously bad
in build quality/reliability. I'd consisder it reason enough to
return the piece of crap. For example, on the well known 3030 tube
output/solid state input integrated, it's horrendous enough that the
jerks solder the EL34 tubes directly to the circuit boards(enough to
make me cringe by itself), but they go a step further. With circuit
traces on the "top side" of the board, rather than making the boards
with proper plated-through holes for the tube pins, they used copper
eyelets, which ensures that one or more of these eyelets will
unsolder themselves from the top side trace as you're soldering in
the tube pins. Truly inspired bit of flagrant stupidity. Just one
example of how an AMC product will make you reach for the prozac.


My god! You mean that they do *not* use tube sockets!!? How cheap is
that!!?

jak

Hello all,

I happen to pickup an amc 3050A integrated amp recently for cheap
($50, MSRP is $399) but it has a problem and I wanted to know if it
could be an easy/cheap fix or should I just return it. When turned
on it begins to hum loudly once an output is selected the music
comes out but it is very distorted. I tried it with cd and phono
with the same results.

Any thoughts? should I keep it try to get it fixed or should I just
return it?

Thank you for your comments, daniel