electrical short 1 channel. Cable spade at fault?


Excuse my electrical ignorance,but my YBA 201 is now out 1 channel after new cables.The spade connector to the amp was huge in diameter, 3/8ths inch vs 1/4 in.for the post,and even with it fully tightened there was still some motion possible in the cable-post interface.Also ,the spades were so long that there could have been some contact between the two.
Also,any ideas on what it should cost to fix this?
Thank you
hayduke1

Showing 1 response by sfar

Good advice from Onemug, if it's the amp your best hope is that there is a fuse in the circuit that protected the amp.

I had an Audio Refinement Complete integrated, the predecessor of the YBA 201, I think, and blew out the right channel when a pair of speakers arrived with an internal short. There was no fuse in the circuit and the cost to replace all the blown resistors was just about exactly the value of the amp, ~$500. I paid it rather than throw the amp away but it wasn't fun.