Thanks All!
    I have a lot to look at now  Funny thing is even after the little I did the amp sounds perfect again, but I'll continue looking. Thanks again,
jc

Quote from: joecool85 on February 14, 2008, 08:34:25 PM
Sounds to me like a bad solder joint somewhere, probably on one of the jacks.  If you go through and touch them up it should go away.

Thanks,
  I went in and didn't see anything obviously loose, but I tightened up a few items and at least for now it worked. One strange thing I saw was a bunch of what appears to be hot melt glue on some components. In some cases it was quite messy and I cleaned this up too. Is this common, or did someone try to do a fix without a soldering gun? At any rate thanks for the reply, now I can go get some new speakers!

Hi,
  I bought a used Trace Elliot Supertramp Stereo Twin Chorus a year ago (green tolex) and I'm having an intermittant issue with it. Background, whoever owned it before me cannibalized the Celestion speakers and replaced them with one crap Dean Markley vintage rock and one totally unmarked noname speaker. I plan on replacing these with some Webers. My problem is that a few times per week when I power the amp on it makes loud cracking sounds. Doesn't matter what's plugged in or where the volume is, or which channel I'm on. Usually if I turn the amp off for a few minutes, then pwer back on it fixes the problem, however today it didn't. Today the problem went away after the amp warmed up for a couple minutes. My question is if this nis indicative of a major underlying problem. I don't want to invest in replacement speakers if the amp itself is a bone. When it is working everything sounds just great and I love the amp. Thanks!