Take it into Brooks Berdan Ltd. in Monrovia (if you haven't been there, it's about ten miles east of Pasadena on the 210 freeway). The shop's tech Tom is in on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Great guy, very competent, conversant with tube products (though that is not related with your problem).
Shangling CD-T100 CD Player in need of repair
I have a Shangling CD-T100 that can use some service. It has at random a ticking sound something like a scratch on a record and sometimes it seems like a fraction of a word is cut off, something like skip. I am talking like only one letter of a word. This does not happen often but when it does it takes away from my enjoyment of the music. I live in the San Fernando Valley in California and looking for someone to check this out so I do not have to send it across the country. If I have to ship it I will but hate to have this bounced around.