Arcam Alpha 7 CD Player

I had this one in with distorted audio, plus with no disc playing it produced a bad hum through the amp. First thing to do was rule out the amp…all other sources worked perfectly so I was quickly able to rule that out. My first assumption was that the power supply was allowing ripple on to one of the secondary supplies, and on removing the case I was presented with four bulging electrolytics, as it turned out they were so ...