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Originally Posted by 1KW
Time to buy a new amp. Which will likely give better performance. It doesn’t owe you anything if it’s so old your capacitors are shot.
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I have been using the Classés on the woofer towers of the IRS betas - an application for which they are particularly well suited at 700 WPC @ 8 ohms, 1,400 WPC @ 4 ohms, & over 2,000 WPC @ 2 ohms!
Although it is certainly possible to get better-sounding solid state amps today, at such high power outputs they sure don't come cheap!
Once I let go of the betas, I won't even have an immediate need for the Classés, but it seems wasteful, not to say un-ecological, to throw them out when a relatively cheap (or free, if the lifetime warranty is honored) fix could bring them back to life for many more years of service. I will either sell them with the betas, sell them separately, or keep them as a backup.
As a Mcintosh owner, you might understand! Some of your boys have been kept around for a very long time!
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Pass Labs XP-15 phono stage
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Edge G8+ laser-biased monoblocks & Classé M-700 monoblocks
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