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As some suggested, caps have a limited life span and, yes, heat is a factor. You are sitting on a ticking time bomb. Like a new puppy, I wouldn’t go off and leave this amp with the power engaged for too long. You might find yourself with a new high wattage space heater, or a high voltage DC generator designed to push your speaker’s raw drivers forward with great velocity and hold them in place until the voice coils melt.

Otherwise, happy listening.

Yeh, I’d check into having Rowland recap them.

Slightly different, but I built my Hafler 500 in 1975 from their kit.  Took it in to the local service guy who fixes everything and it measured perfectly except for a small bias adjustment.  Advised not to mess with it, and it sounds as good as it ever did.

Suggest you take it in and see what the tech says. Components do deteriorate as they age, but so far, so good for me, luckily.

Cheers!

As many have said get it checked out.  I would add that it would be best to send to Rowland for the check and possible replacements.

I have an ARC D-111 from 1981 purchased from an ARC engineer who was the original. owner.  There were only twenty of them made and he checked it out prior to the 1996 sale to me.  I've had it checked in the last few years and it still is right on spec.  By the way, the amp runs very conservatively, it is massively over-built with 32 output transistors.  Even running it hard for hours the heat sinks only get to about 96 degrees (has three cooling fans).

Regards,

barts

+ 1 on to ask Jeff Rowland for maintenance