OK. Maybe I can't get my old integrated amp fixed. Now what?

[Monkeyleg]

I posted a thread last night asking for recommendations for good online audiophile forums. Thanks to those who replied.

Specifically, I was looking for a source for repair for my twenty-some year-old NAD 3140 integrated amp. It was one of the best made way back when, and I thought it would still be a decent amp to have today.

I'm sensing that there's nobody out there with the parts and experience to work on it, though.

So, what would be a good used (and inexpensive) integrated amp? No more than 50 watts needed.

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

How do you define "inexpensive"??  

My current serious listening setup uses a gainclone amplifier I built myself for about $30 plus a handful of spare parts I had laying around.  I have an extreme/snobbish audiophile friend who insists that his "inexpensive" $2,000 tube amp was a real bargain.  It's fair to say that "inexpensive" can vary considerably from one person to the next.

Have you checked Ebay to see if anyone is selling a working version of your old NAD amp?

[Monkeyleg]

HTG, that NAD 3140 cost me about $500 or so back in 1981. NAD's are still in the $500+ range.

I'm thinking that something for a couple of hundred bucks would do for now. Actually, that price range _has_ to do for now, since I just started adding up the cost of projects we need done around the house:

Rebuild chimney--$8,000

Finish reburbishing main bathroom--$3,000 to $5,000.

Four new sidewalk slabs--~$3,000.

Possible (crossing fingers don't need it) new roof--$5,000

New garage--$15,000

Just adding all those things up, I just realized that I'll probably get them done and paid for by the time I die.

Maybe my wife can just use the portable CD player and headphones she has for her job.

[Gewehr98]

Dunno if this is a help or hindrance, but when my Nikko NR750 amp died a couple years ago, I couldn't find replacement parts stateside.  So I bought a Jolida 502 integrated amp, albeit with 4 pentodes instead of those transistor/integrated circuit thingies.  $1200, and I don't regret it at all:

[Harold Tuttle]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Fabulous-NAD-New-Acoustic-Design-3140-Stereo-Amplifier_W0QQitemZ9720066399QQcategoryZ50593QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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[Harold Tuttle]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Classic-NAD-3020-Integrated-Amplifier-Very-Nice-NR_W0QQitemZ9719778554QQcategoryZ3280QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/NAD-3045-AMPLIFIER-RARE_W0QQitemZ9721612256QQcategoryZ50596QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-NAD-7030-STEREO-FM-AM-RECEIVER-AMPLIFIER-WORKS_W0QQitemZ9721845814QQcategoryZ3280QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem