An Ode to My Old A-X40: Rust in Peace

One of the things I determined to do after finishing school in the spring was to clean house – literally and figuratively. It’s proven to be a tall order, but the accumulated old stuff just has to go, unless it really serves a purpose. This house-cleaning campaign forced me to admit that it was finally time for my old JVC A-X40 stereo integrated amplifier to go. It had reached the point where it no longer output on the right channel at all, and the left channel was hit or miss, and producing output often required highly-skilled maintenance procedures lik...