"Surprise Repair" by Steve Adams

"Surprise Repair" by Steve Adams A few weeks ago, I received a call from a longtime friend. He knows I am an engineer, and he had an old radio that had stopped working. It wasn't just any radio; it was a meticulously designed, high-end piece of equipment that had been silent for years. In the 1980's and 1990's people around the world paid $1,400 for each unit! His plan was to order a new amplifier and replace the original board, but I cautioned him about the challenge of matching custom speak...