[sdiy] Damned amplifier

[greg montalbano]

...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.


At 12:05 PM 11/20/02 -0800, you wrote:

> > today my stereo amplifier developed the same problem!
> >
> > sounds like crackling on the left side. I took it apart,
> > cleaned it. the
> > problem was gone. I put it all back together, then 5 minutes later it
> > returned!!!!!
> >
> > I'm open to ideas. I thought maybe the caps in the power supply were
> > dead. Am I crazy?
>
>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.
>
>I concluded that the cheap speaker connecting blocks aren't compatible 
>with frayed speaker wire.  Maybe that's the root of your problem.
>
>John Speth
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