Well, you can’t say a bad thing about any one from the Leak family (no, I am not talking about the Leak 30s and 70 please). What to watch out for; Have a look at the mains transformer for signs of overheating. This is normally indicated by stalactites of wax hanging down from the underside …
I have had a couple of D115s recently. These are lovely amplifiers, but not designed to be serviced. Nine 6550s / KT88s and loads of drivers, phase splitters, long tailed pairs, ICs, transistors massive mains transformer, healthy output transformers etc go to make a unit which needs a block and tackle to get it onto …
These amplifiers are quite rare today. They did not seem to be as popular as the Leaks and Quads, but were equally as good and very well made. This was mainly due to PYE’s set building for the military and war effort. The sets use ECC33s, ECC35s and KT66s. Reasonably standard configuration circuit wise, but …
