Lately I work on audio and have long thought that I get the shit that has a lready been gone through but I think I have ALMOST seen it all.
This amp in a receiver, not the greatest but is vintage, whatever it needed outputs though I don't know why.
So it is offset bigtime. The problem ? A 27K going to the emitters of the d iff pair. So with that replaced it centers the voltage and all it supposeed ly well but it has distortion. Wracked my brain or a bit and I decided to go inoto detail mode. What do I find ?
An 2.2K ohm resistor where an 18 ohm belongs. What's more it looked like it had never been changed or if so it was a very long time ago because the co nnections had the same dust on them as the rest of it.
Shit like this is not normal, and I am dealing with more and more of it.
Then there is this quad unit, outputs good but it had more bad transistors than you could sweep off the floor. get the amp fixed and a channel is cutt ing out. Bad connection ? Nope, a transistor. Got that fixed and now off to another board that is no doubt full of bad transistors.
Life is trip, think of the destination.