I promised an update to all of you who offered such good advice and experience.
After looking at all the advice and options I sent the amp to John Zimmerman at Audio Connection, the Cary dealer in Seattle, based on my previous experience with him and a couple of reassuring and informative phone conversations.
I had been reluctant to take the risk of shipping but the local shops analysis of the problem and especially their estimates of the cost of the repair, seemed completely crazy.
The bottom line is that John replaced all the capacitors in the amp, including installing four Cardas Golden Ratio caps, for a price, including two-way shipping, that was one fourth the price of the local shops estimate to replace the Jensen caps, and their insistence I had to buy a complete new set of new stock tubes if I wanted any kind of warranty.
The irony, as I noted earlier, is that a couple of years ago when I took a friend into Johns shop to listen to some speakers and we were talking about my system, John recommended that I replace the Jensen copper-in-oil capacitors because they have such a high failure rate. I didnt do it then and should have. It would have saved me considerable money and aggravation.
I got the amp back last night, fired it up this morning and it sounds fantastic. It has been an expensive but interesting lesson.
Find the good dealers out there and trust them to do right by you.
After looking at all the advice and options I sent the amp to John Zimmerman at Audio Connection, the Cary dealer in Seattle, based on my previous experience with him and a couple of reassuring and informative phone conversations.
I had been reluctant to take the risk of shipping but the local shops analysis of the problem and especially their estimates of the cost of the repair, seemed completely crazy.
The bottom line is that John replaced all the capacitors in the amp, including installing four Cardas Golden Ratio caps, for a price, including two-way shipping, that was one fourth the price of the local shops estimate to replace the Jensen caps, and their insistence I had to buy a complete new set of new stock tubes if I wanted any kind of warranty.
The irony, as I noted earlier, is that a couple of years ago when I took a friend into Johns shop to listen to some speakers and we were talking about my system, John recommended that I replace the Jensen copper-in-oil capacitors because they have such a high failure rate. I didnt do it then and should have. It would have saved me considerable money and aggravation.
I got the amp back last night, fired it up this morning and it sounds fantastic. It has been an expensive but interesting lesson.
Find the good dealers out there and trust them to do right by you.