Guys to inform you it turns out there was a fault with one of the modules in the preamp section. A shorted capacitor that a friend found and fixed!!
I had the same problem. A tiny cap on the 18v PCB shorted and it was easy to overlook.Well I fitted a carbon 0.5w 33r resistor and puff of smoke 🙁
I turned it off immediately, no fuses blown and it appears no other damage.
I had to leave it there and report what happened. We got the resistors on order but there clearly is some other issue.
I only had a chance to check for short around the resistor and nothing was shorted, I checked the adjacent transistors..
Any suggestions please?
MikePP you were right the amplifier was not even on! Orange was standby and as soon as I pressed CD, it went red and started the resistor smoked immediately..
And the filter cap of the 7805 regulator was dry.
See also "hot-heatsinks-in-vintage-amps-such-as-nad-c320"
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