February 2026

Customer brought in this 25 year old unit stating that it no longer works properly – turntable starts up and then stops a few seconds later. Switched over to a spare alternative and the turntable works, so wanted me to look at this unit. Looked inside and immediately obvious that two capacitors were bulging and […]

Customer reports that amplifier switches on but won’t click onto the source enabling it to play music. Found that half the power supply was not working, +63V rail was missing from which 5v logic and +24v rails are derived. Thermal imagery showed that the area of the PSU board with the regulator pass through transistors