A tour of a Hoppe’s Brain GFA-555 restoration

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UPDATE 2022.12.19 This is how I was doing GFA-555’s 5 years ago, and I have a new article describing how I do them now…
https://hoppesbrain.com/2022/09/26/another-tour-of-a-hoppes-brain-adcom-gfa-555-restoration-5-years-later-with-better-technology/

Hi everyone! One of my customers sent me a particularly nice GFA-555 MKI to be refurbished. It’s never been tampered with, and has very few scratches on the case… just beautiful. So I thought I would take lots of pictures along the way as I refurbish it, and show you the latest iteration of my GFA-555 rebuild process. This is the full monty upgrade package including the Hoppe’s Brain soft-start power supply board, with all sound quality and reliability improvements. $1025 in total.

Adcom GFA-555 Amp, being all amp-ey.

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