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amp clipping earlier than usual?

I have a pair of mono amps with clipping indicator LEDs. One of the amps' indicators is lighting up for the first time. I've never been able to make them light up before. But it only happens on one of them. It lights up way sooner than as loud as I typically max them. I don't hear any distortion. So I'm thinking it's not an output transistor. These are LSR&D Superamp monos, 300wpch. Anyone? TIA
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tomic601
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You can visually inspect for bulges, leaks, test for esr and traces of 60 HZ downstream
or just get on with the business of it...
remember the voltages you are playing with can be fatal
get help versus poking around with a fork....
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tomic601
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Transformer runs hotter when filter caps are failing 
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