Whats on your turntable tonight?

New arrival-

Monk Quartet at Carnegie Hall-2018 BN

Jean Martinon conducts Saint-Saëns - Symphony In A & Symphony In F "Urbs Roma". Orchestre National de la RTF. Angel 1975

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht – Three Penny Opera, Original Cast Recording

(Columbia Masterworks 1976) 

....so many records to listen to then the amplifier died!  

Actually not fatal, just one channel out.  
 

Got out the meter and discovered a shorted coupling capacitor.

But, that involves ordering a replacement which will no doubt take a week.

Fortunately the amplifier design incorporates protection for the 300B triodes.  When   I went over to check why one channel went out, the grid in the 300B was already red hot.  In an instant, the protection disabled the filament protecting the 300B.

So, it will be a quiet few days until the replacement capacitor (Jupiter if anyone is curious) arrives.

@puffball08 

Oh man, that sucks. At least you figured it out quickly, and the tubes are OK.

Have a back-up? I've always thought I should have kept my B&K amp as a back-up instead of selling it after buying the Belles. Now I routinely look at the same/similar amps in the US Audio Mart listings just for that purpose.