Thanks for your comments and sorry for the late response- I sort of lost touch with this thread. The Rotel has been fixed and is working- when I initially posted the question, I hadn't received back it, yet. My repair guy had told me, though, that if the problem happens again- and this was my third round of repair- that I'd need to return it to the manufacturer, so I posted my question about replacement. I'm a far cry from an "amp of the month" sort- I used the components I bought in 1982 up until the past few years, when I've upgraded piece by piece from a Luxman receiver, KEF speakers, and Denon turntable. Earlier this year, I replaced the Denon, which was the plast piece left unreplaced, with the Music Hall. At any rate, I began to consider the possibility of replacing my Rotel.
As of this writing, the Rotel is staying, but in the process, I did decide to upgrade the Marantz P7001 to a Parasound Halo P5. That should do me for quite a long time, if not for good. Unfortunately, though, I have no way of auditioning equipment- there are no dealers of quality equipment within a couple of hundred miles of me. I was having the same discussion with my service guy- it's unfortunate there is no efficient way to audition equipment anymore. I do have high expectations that I'll be very happy with the Parasound, though.
