[sdiy] Damned amplifier

[Glen]

At 03:06 PM 11/11/02 , Linium wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have 2 stereo amplifiers that show almost the same faulty behaviors and i 
>would like to ask about this kind of problem.
>
>The amplifier work ok but there are some moments where a voice start to have 
>some very short loss in the signal, like there is a bad contact somewhere.

Do the amplifiers use relays to delay the amplifier's connection to
speakers, as a means of preventing "turn-on thump"? If so, these relays can
develop poor connections and cause problems similar to what you describe.
They can also cause crossover distortion.

later,
Glen Berry