Trevor Wilson wrote:

**Irrelevant. Your claim, here and elsewhere, is that the TDA1541 is
'audibly perfect'. Therefore, given the inherent quality of the device being
repaired, it makes perfect sense to spend a reasonable amount to service it.
The American attitude, as typified by your comments, is to chuck it out,
rather than service it. That, in part, is what is wrong with our society
today.

It's always puzzled me why you write 'service' when you mean 'repair'.
Is that an Australian thing? Or a psychological trick to persuade the
punters
to spend more on a repair than it would cost to buy something newer and
better?
Over here servicing is topping up the oil on a Garrard 401
or adjusting the bias current and offset voltage on a Linsley Hood.

--
Eiron.