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Old 10-29-2013, 05:37 PM
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I bought a Rockford Fosgate 400 watt 4 channel amp off a coworker and I did not use it for about a year but it started humming through the speakers a month after I installed it,it was not motor noise and would come and go and would start doing it after it warmed up. No more used amps from now on.
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Yes. Capacitors can dry out and then you've got a dirty power supply feeding dirty amplifier stages.




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