Same here dude.

I'm in Manchester, BTW. I bought a YaQin (not Yaoin, BTW) amp back
in summer 2004. Worked a charm and sounded beautiful for a few weeks,
and then BANG! Resistors started burning out, and that caused valves to
have internal firework shows, which caused further overcurrent.

Mine too has always been more of a PITA on the left channel, though
that'll only be coincidence.

Right now, the right-hand channel is fine. The left is ****ed; it just
sounds far too quiet, "scratchy" as you put it, and "early-clippy".

When it works/worked properly, it was like a beautiful, but
high-maintenance girlfriend: Fantastic and "Ooooooh!" but a moody
pain in the ****ing arse a lot of the time, that demands too much attention
when it really should be just cutting the crap and be getting on with letting
us both have a good time. That's the best analogy I can give.

Bummer, but I don't have a 'scope, so I've no real chance of fixing
it, I don't think.

I feel your pain!


Martin
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