@georgehifi I took the cover off the amp and everything looks clean, all the large caps look great, almost new. No bulging, no shrinking on the plastic wrap on them, no leaking anywhere. Took the cover off the pre and same. There were only 2 large caps in the Pre and they weren't bulged on top, maybe a slight bit puffy, thats a technical term. But not bulged.
What are the signs of caps going in an Amp?
I have been blaming streaming since I am new to streaming, like a couple weeks in, new. I was away for a for while as our home was being built and my gear was inactive. I have a Classe CA-151 amp and Classe SSP25 pre that I only use for 2 channel anymore and they are approaching 20 years old. So I bought a Node 2i and have been enjoying my Qobuz trial. It started intermittently the last few nights where I start hearing static, muffled sound, almost like a radio station going softly in and out of tune. I have been blaming it on streaming and wifi or ethernet connection. Someone pointed out it may be a cap starting to go bad. I checked all the other connections and everything is tight and good. What are the signs of a cap going bad? Is it constant or intermittent? Next time it happens I am going to switch over to CD to rule out streaming. When it happened last night I switched to Tidal to rule out Qobuz, and then switched to my MacBook to rule out the Node and it was still there. I did not have the CD player connected at the time otherwise I would have switched, but that is my next step.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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maybe a slight bit puffyCould be the first signs, can you take some pics of the puffy ones and post up, use this image hosting https://imgbb.com/ Classe are usually way over spec’d on their caps voltage, so it not likely. And this is a relatively new’ish model, if it were an old early 1990 one then the caps could be sus. https://img.usaudiomart.com/uploads/large/1717936-classe-ca151-stereo-power-amplifier-150w300w-into-... Cheers George |
@georgehifi here are 2 pics from the pre. The ones that I thought looked slightly puffy are the 2 larger ones https://i.imgur.com/YtwPcI1.jpg https://i.imgur.com/d3vZ9cb.jpg Here are the ones from the amp https://i.imgur.com/zV1NdU1.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1CeeqGm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/fFrIJaT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/19hd239.jpg |
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