On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:23:44 -0400, "MZ"
wrote:

be4 repairing any amp wiegh can you buy a better amp alil more or will
it break again.i've been down the fix it road b4.lol
once 1 thing breaks whats next? usually things get worse not better with
amps breaking.i'd fix it and sell it.if you can get more than double the
repair bill out of it. there is a chance it'll not break again for
awhile thou.i would gamble on it myself.......

Amps are different from cars and houses. A lot of times, fixing the amp
will fix it for good. Unless it's a cheap crappy amp to begin with. I
still have amps that I fixed years ago and have worked flawless since. Last
year, I sold an MTX Blue Thunder amp that I had originally bought like 7
years prior. The "fix" was basically only resoldering a trace. A lot of
times, broken amps are the result of a loose connection which may not be
representative of the soldering/connections job internally.


I had an AudioContol EQX that was intermittent on one channel. There
was a fractured solder joint on one of the RCA connectors.
De-soldering it, cleaning it up, and re-soldering it fixed the problem
for good. It was still working fine when I gave it away ten years
later.

Mark's right - amps and other electronic devices don't really "wear
out" as much as they experience abrupt failures of individual
components. It's not uncommon to fix/replace the bad part and have
the device keep on truckin' for decades longer.
--
Scott Gardner

"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." (Emo Philips)