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...and I had a similar problem with an old Peavy amp, which my brother
gave me for free, being too pissed-off with it to keep it -- turned out
to be an intermittently faulty transistor; a five cent replacement
got me a free amp.<br><br>
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At 12:05 PM 11/20/02 -0800, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=2>> today my stereo
amplifier developed the same problem!</font> <br>
<font size=2>> </font><br>
<font size=2>> sounds like crackling on the left side. I took it
apart, </font><br>
<font size=2>> cleaned it. the </font><br>
<font size=2>> problem was gone. I put it all back together, then 5
minutes later it </font><br>
<font size=2>> returned!!!!!</font> <br>
<font size=2>> </font><br>
<font size=2>> I'm open to ideas. I thought maybe the caps in the
power supply were </font><br>
<font size=2>> dead. Am I crazy?</font> <br><br>
<font size=2>Years ago my brother in law had a problem that sounds like
yours. I told him to send the stereo to me and I'd check it
out. It arrived and it worked great for me. He also sent the
speaker wires. I noticed they were all extremely frayed.
Being anal, I re-stripped them to the right length and tinned the
ends. I sent it back with the report that it worked perfectly for
me. He hooked it back up again and later thanked me for fixing his
amp.<br>
</font><br>
<font size=2>I concluded that the cheap speaker connecting blocks aren't
compatible with frayed speaker wire. Maybe that's the root of your
problem.<br>
</font><br>
<font size=2>John Speth</font> </blockquote></html>