Tops of caps on new amp are at 245 volts DC!!!

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Submitted by ChopperCharles on

I just bought a brand new Yaqin MC-100B tube amplifier. I love the thing... it sounds absolutely amazing even with my shitty speakers. But I found a problem. While checking the bias today I put a meter on the top metal part of each of the four capacitors that are between the transformers, and chassis ground. Two of the four caps were at or near 247 volts AC. Is this by design, or is something seriously wrong? Shouldn't the body of the capacitor have no voltage? And shouldn't all four caps be the same? Two have no voltage, two are at 247 volts.

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As Stephen Mejias <A href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/020408junk/&quot; target=new>found recently</a>, there really are audiophile gems and deals to be had in the "junk" store. Have you ever found audiophile treasure in junk shops?

old guitar amp as stereo?

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Submitted by matt4270 on

Hey guys! Newbie here with tube gear question! A have an old mesa/boogie stereo similclass 2/90 power amp from an old rackmount guitar rig I disassembled. Can I use this as the amp for a tube stereo by adding a pre amp and speakers? I don't have the amp specs, but mesaboogie should have them on their website. Thanks for any ideas you may be able to share with me!

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This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

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This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

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This year marks the tenth time I've written an introduction to <I>Stereophile</I>'s venerable annual feature "Records To Die For." Looking back, I'm proud that readers always find it useful and entertaining. I'm also amazed, on some levels, that our writers&mdash;hardware or software, deadline-phobic or not&mdash;manage to find something worthwhile to say, year in and year out, about music&mdash;which, after all, is why we became audiophiles in the first place.

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