tablebeast
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I just bought an Eico ST-40 Tube Integrated Amp and its all original (even the tubes!) except for a couple of new 25uf-50v Spragues in the power section. I have had it set up for about four hours now and it sounds gorgeous. I heard this was a rather hot amp temperature wise, but I was just checking it out and the can capacitors seem really hot, not too hot to touch, but just waving my hands over the parts they are the hottest part of the amp. Is this normal? Usually I just use my ears to judge whether caps are good or not and these sound fine, but is this a potential hazard? How hot is too hot? I have no qualms about modifying this guy, I'm going to do a ton of stuff to it so that it fits in with my studio monitoring setup just right. But, I only want to change these 'lytics out if its dangerous. Thanks in advance for the advice.
Jesse
Jesse