Vintage Synth Repair

I agree, with vintage synths dead op-amps are common, and so are dead OTA's and 
transistor arrays.  1458's, 4558's, 741's, CA3080's, CA3280's and LM 3046's come to 
mind.

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, Philip <eggwheatis@...> wrote:
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> Ive seen exactly the opposite in vintage synthesizers.
> Op-amp failures are common in my world. :)
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> --- scott frye <painintheamp@...> wrote:
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> In my 25+ years on working in engineering and test
> I've seen VERY VERY few op amps ever go bad.
> Caps crap out far more and power resistors and 3
> terminal regulators
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> Scott  Frye
> AudioFixation
> Consumer / Pro Audio Repair
> Southern VT 
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