I'm not exactly sure what you're saying (maybe you want to run it over with a Honda?!) but I take it you agree.novosibir wrote:I accord to this!LeftyStrat wrote:As Ken would say, "Use your ears."
You're right up to a point and you're wrong beyond that point. I don't care who you buy your parts from, it's mandatory to check each component for spec and value on the best instrumentation you can get. If you don't all your ears will tell you is that no sound at all is coming from your amp or it's making a loud buzz.
We get capacitors every day that are either wide open or dead shorted. They aren't old dead parts out of old dead amps, they're new caps fresh in the poly bag from reliable vendors.
I can do without the hassle of guesswork while chasing after an elusive fault. I'll trust my instruments to tell me my parts are good then I'll trust my ears to tell me what to do with them.