So this is one of the few Craigslist deals I've picked up recently. I actually emailed this lady about her Insignia receiver for $100. She said it was a $500 receiver eight months ago. Well the only $500 receiver Insignia has is their HDMI capable one which for $100 is pretty good. Turns out it was just a NS2000 - Stereo receiver, which is $100 retail new. But she said she had an amp with it for sale, too. What was it? I asked. Parasound HCa-1205a.
What's that? It's a THX Ultra certified five channel amplifier. 140 watts into five channels RMS @ 8ohms. 200 watts into 4 ohms. That's one hell of an amplifier. I picked it up for $200 (cheap) and took it home. The guy said he had a candle on it and it kind of melted. No joke.
I got it home and opened it up. I wasn't going to power it on with wax caked to the top. I take the top cover off and bang the wax out. No big deal. Then I look inside and theres wax ALL over the toroidal transformer. I scrape it off, and out. It's everywhere. Luckily it's only on the transformer and not on any of the circuit boards, that would be a nightmare to clean. Overall I pulled about 18 oz of wax out of that thing. What type of candle was he burning?
After cleaning it up I hooked it up to my RT-55s and let her rip. POWER. Wow is there power. The good ole' NAD before was great, but this was moving.
Great power. Great price. Cleaned all up - paired with my RT-55's bi-amped (first time ever) and a Velodyne VA-810 subwoofer... Awesome.
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