Hey Tim,
thanks for looping back and posting your update. As a another SLP98 owner with upgrades, I was closely monitoring your situation and hoping for the best outcome. Glad they found the part issue. Something similar happened to me before summer on my amp. Occurred after local (experienced) mastertech level upgrades to my amp. Similar round and round chase to your situation, it turned out to be a failed part, bad hexfreds (not the tech's fault) that showed up only after 6-8 hours of use, after the initial two day burn in.
I spoke to an industry colleague who knows CAD designs extremely well and he explained the whole direct coupled upgrade, what gets removed, and how it opens up the soundstage and detail a bit more on the 98. Now that you've had it running for a while, is that what you experienced before & after?
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