One SS amp running hotter that the other,. . .


should I be concerned? I have a pair of Classe CA301's that I bought at seperate times. I'm not running them in bridged mode. One seems to be quite a bit hotter than the other. Hot enough that you can't leave your hand on it for more than a few seconds. The other one is just very warm although not enough that you feel you have to pull your hand away.
dan_ed

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I would get it serviced. If an amp runs hotter than normal it can cause the transistor and other elements to fail. I agree that it's probably a bias fault caused by an open resistor, or a resistor that's drifted in value. My guess it's the emitter resistor.