Yamaha M80 Amp

Update on my M-80. After letting it sit in the basement for several months, I decided to revisit my search for a repair source for my amp. After seeing a name pop up on several forums that I don't even remember now, I hit a gold mine, thirteen minutes from my home. The man is a former Yamaha service rep and has been doing high end audio repairs for many years.

Contacted him and set an appointment to take my amp in. Went there today and after about 15 minutes of diagnostics and poking around he had diagnosed the issues and provided me with an estimate. Part was known glue issues and the speaker protection relays. He's going to freshen it up and in a couple of weeks I will have the services of one of the finest amps to come out of Japan. He pointed out to me that Yamaha had built that as a flagship piece and used the best parts available in that era. When I asked him how long a service life I can expect from it, He said it will probably still be playing when we are both gone. Can't wait to get it back and see how it lights up my KEF's. 

Call some of the high end audio stores in Chicago. They can recommend someone to contact. 

Any store selling audio equipment in driving range.?

They either have their own 'guy', or someone nearby to handle problems that occur.

I’m located in the St Louis metro area. Used to be a shop called Alpha tec that was an authorized Yamaha repair shop. He knew the old stuff and brought my CR2020 back to life. Unfortunately, he closed down several years ago.

i only know of two other audio shops here.(other than big box) and they don’t do repairs.

I agree, find someone close enough to drive it to, have it fixed.

Let us know your location, perhaps a member knows someone near you.

My electronics shop has a technician who repairs things. Didn't know they had that for years.

I once had a computer shop fix an audio item.

IOW, in the words of the Saturday Night skit: "what should they do? FIX IT!"

Best of luck.

You can sell it as not working for around $500, or buy a service kit and fix it:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155126532945?hash=item241e430b51:g:ozQAAOSwstRhY~LJ

The M80 is a legendary amp. World-class even. Unless it is trashed, it is well worth someone repairing it. Where are you located that you have no electronics repair services? This is not a tough fix for most any repair service if it’s just simply a bad cap or resistor or something like that.