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Show posts MenuQuote from: Enzo on April 21, 2017, 11:36:54 AM
Make sure I understand, you bought a used amp that at least was claimed to work. You have not even plugged it in, and you are proposing to tear it apart and replace half the insides?
WHY?
Online discussions may demonstrate that WHEN these amps fail, it is more often blown outputs than other parts, but how many of these worked flawlessly their entire lives? Those amps never get mention online. SO it is like hanging around a hospital emergency room to decide what your life is going to be like. There is a difference between "these blow up" and "this is what burns on the ones that blow up".
You measured a couple caps in circuit, and they both are within 10% of value. They could have measured the same the day they were new. it isn't the value that wears out, it is the ESR and leakage inside.
A beefier rectifier bridge would just mean that someing else burns up when you have an output failure.
Quote from: J M Fahey on November 03, 2011, 07:31:00 PM
Congratulations.
As I mention everywhere, the *main* difference between Tube and SS amps is the kind (meaning $$$$$) of speakers fitted to each.
Day and night.
There even is a You Tube where they plug a 1/2W , LM386 based "Smokey" amplifier into a Marshall 4x12" cabinet.
Only comment: WOW!!