Lovely little unit, the Audiolab 8000Q preamplifier. Unfortunately, it’s let down by poor quality factory-fitted parts, particularly the capacitors. In this article, I repair this very nice pre-amp.

This Audiolab 8000Q preamplifier came to me with a fault which would see it sometimes take a long time to turn on. I’m talking a really long time – it would sometimes take up to 30 minutes to become operational after turn-on.… Read more