Ranster
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You missed my point. I am a weekend warrior and have claimed nothing more. NOS isn’t a fair item to measure against something that has played hard for 40 years. Don’t think I’m taking up for carver as I replaced all of my carver gear as it was underpowered. Another reason I’m asking this question. I didn’t want a fight nor did I come here to be frowned upon because I’m not an EE and a how did you describe it a, mindless, weekend warrior. Emphasis added to reflect your tone. I asked you some questions about names of equipment. I meant that and nothing more. See I’m a realist and I don’t mince words or talk abstractly good yet mean something other intent as most in this world while disguising it as educated talking. If you have some stuff that has played for 40 years and measures perfect. Then I want in on the stuff I should be looking for. It’s that simple. I can’t measure equipment and I want to but something vintage that I can afford. Why is that so hard to understand. No, you have to act like I just killed your dog and talk types of capacitors and zener diodes they only allow a certain voltage move in one direction or capacitors that go where it gets real hot and poly’s would burn up and act like I’m stupid. Please get off the high horse. I meant what I said. Can I even afford the stuff you have that measures good at this age. I would rather have some names of equipment rather than buy and sell buy and sell and finally find that one piece I’ve been looking for before I die of old age. Besides if you name the equipment you know others will go andPlenty of gear tests as new. I have an awful lot of HiFi, a collection you may find hard to comprehend the scale of. Suffice it to say, like everything, there's a lot of BS and opinions stated as facts that are far from it.
I've pulled NOS sealed stuff out of my storeroom that is over 30 years old and tests better than rated spec (because they were conservative in the first place).
Why does everyone point the finger at electrolytics? Because everyone has seen a leaky cap, heard about leaky caps and knows they are easy enough to source and replace. And it makes them feel like they've "restored" something. They haven't.
Why stop at electrolytic capacitors? What about film, greencaps, ceramic and tantalum? Most resistors drift. So do fusible resistors (they are terrible). Diodes, zeners get noisy, transistors become leaky, noisy or low in gain. Pots wear, switches corrode/oxidize, CMOS switches break down, VFDs lose their emissive properties, transformers can break down etc. etc.
Capacitors are an easy target for weekend warriors. Mostly, they fix nothing and often (more than often) they make a mess and consign what was a perfectly functioning vintage product to the scrap heap.
Measure your gear, fault find and repair first! NO throwing a bag of capacitors at it to see what sticks. Then you have a functional baseline. If you cannot measure your gear, you have no business poking around inside it attempting to fix something you haven't quantified as being broken in the first place.
Measure theirs to see? Well maybe I’m being facetious but then again you weren’t nice in your reply. If I smell BS I call it also. About the only equipment that measured well then and the same now after 40 years is something 98% of the population couldn’t afford then or now. I am interested in names and model numbers. I am old disabled and certainly no EE. I’ll take all the help I can get. If I knew how to modify and upgrade all my equipment and was smart as You I wouldn’t be asking this question would I?