advice on Orion 250HCCA
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Topic: advice on Orion 250HCCA
Posted By: supradude
Subject: advice on Orion 250HCCA
Date Posted: March 28, 2005 at 10:22 PM
I have an Orion 250HCCA that quit working a while back. I found a shop that repairs amps and they will fix it, if it CAN be fixed, for $90 plus shipping. Is it worth fixing? Or should I just give up on it and go on to bigger and newer amps? Just wanting opinions on what to do.
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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: March 28, 2005 at 10:52 PM
As a suggestion? Send it back to Orion directly, they know the amp WAY better than any run-of-the-mill shop. They will fix it correctly, and it'll probably have a 90 day warranty on the repair as well... It'll probably cost about the same, too. Those are kick ass amps, and for 90 dollars? I'd repair it!
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Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: March 28, 2005 at 10:54 PM
That's a tough call....I say save it on the shelf over your workbench and go on to newer and bigger now. Maybe some day in the future you'll get the gift and be able to fix it yourself. Or you might find an "old school" spendthrift nut on Ebay who is willing to buy it not working for a mere $150, and that may not be too much of a surprise in the future, either. haemphyst, I wouldn't have posted this if I saw your response first, as you know these amps much better than I do....but I'll leave this up anyway just for the sake of confusion...
Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: March 28, 2005 at 11:01 PM
stevdart wrote:
haemphyst, I wouldn't have posted this if I saw your response first, as you know these amps much better than I do....but I'll leave this up anyway just for the sake of confusion...
nice...  LOL
(In my best John Cleese [ala Monty Python] accent) Look, it's people like you what cause unrest... ------------- It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
Posted By: deocder
Date Posted: March 29, 2005 at 10:14 AM
Yea, this is a fantastic amp and also reccommend having Orion/DEI take a look at it.
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Posted By: supradude
Date Posted: March 29, 2005 at 11:26 AM
Thanks for the advice. I think I will get it repaired, even if I don't use it. I have the 225HCCA and 2100HCCA also, and I hate not having all 3 of them in usable shape. I wasn't aware that Orion still worked on their older amps anymore. I will check with them and see if they will repair it.
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Posted By: jperkins812
Date Posted: March 30, 2005 at 6:53 PM
I have a older 225HCCA amp on two AudioBahn AlumaQ's and the amp puts out alot of power when bridged down to 1 ohm and never gets hot. I would have it fixed.
Posted By: 04MDX4SQ
Date Posted: March 31, 2005 at 10:40 AM
I don't think DEI will work on the amps, at least they didn't when they first took over Orion. All warranty amps we had sent them were replaced with new product.
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Posted By: supradude
Date Posted: March 31, 2005 at 2:07 PM
That is sort of what I expected. I haven't been able to get through to them yet. It would seem that they wouldn't be very familiar with the older Orion stuff anyway. And since this amp has been out of warranty for a COUPLE of days, I doubt they will touch it. I will keep trying to call them and see though.
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