And be proud of it (when you can)!

We can agree to disagree.

In my experience this stand is quite the majority in Europe that you should replace the ones that are faulty. In the States it is quite the opposite. You like throwing money out of the window we do not.

One of the best professional restorer measured the caps in mine during the service and found them to be close to as new and perfectly within specifications and strongly recommended against replacement.

I have accepted his recommendation and saved 100s of dollars and have been running the unit rather happily without the slightest issue with it for years.

Not necessarily. A lot of good quality caps from the end of 60s and 70s measure perfectly fine. In my Marantz 2226B from 78, all caps measured within spec and they were actually pair matched to within 1-2% for the two channels.

I only replaced the power supply filter caps with 275V ones due to voltage increase in the EU and one size up to improve filtering and match the size of the old ones.

I’ve been listening to it for 4 years since then and enjoying the gorgeous original sound as was intended by the designer who voiced the amp.