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CS5 electrolytic crossover caps. Whoever spotted them was correct, despite the promo stating 'all film caps'. There a few, always shunts to common and always bypassed by the yellow 1uF styrene/ tin foil cap. There is also an iron core inductor in the subwoofer feed. I recall that layout space was the determining factor for that huge board. Outboarding that board would probably be required to allow upgrade of those electrolytics with film caps. Those speakers are 30 years old, nearing their hypothetical service life. None are in sensitive / dangerous positions. 

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i wanted to circle back around on the ModWright query.

 I believe that the Integrated amp would be a contender at 200 wpc.

Nice current delivery as well.

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Hey! So I inherited a pair of CS 2.4s that I love, along with a NAD C275BEE amp that I think is dying. The right channel keeps cutting out and only comes back after power cycling.

Short of looking into repairing that amp, I was thinking of getting a new integrated amp, hopefully with a DAC. I know the Thiels are picky in terms of ohms, but I'm trying to keep the cost under $1000, and the Yamaha A-S701BL looked good to me. Open to Ebaying a good amp too, but prefer new.

Will this amp be able to power the CS 2.4s adequately? They stay in a small NYC apartment room so they're not maxing out their volume. Thanks for any input!

They don't give any specs into 4 ohms - 

  and it doesn't look like a high current amp.  So I would guess unless you don't listen to dynamic music in a small room, I'm not sure you would be happy with it -