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Originally Posted by Ted Kendall
...most domestic semiconductor-based kit is best served by replacing faulty capacitors and letting the rest be.
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Yes. An exception perhaps being that if you find a fault caused by a failed electrolytic capacitor, it's sometimes reassuring to replace any "similar" ones at the same time, e.g. the LH speaker coupling cap if the RH one has developed high ESR; or the other Frako 10uF 25V caps if you've just had one that's gone s/c.
I'm also suspicious about ones that live right next to hot-running components. And those horrid SM ones which leak corrosive stuff. And Callins ones.
But the rest I'd leave. Not least because the original components (especially if Japanese) may well have been of better quality than that available nowadays.