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In some 30 years of fooling around with high-end audio equipment, I cannot remember ever...

...cutting old leads and soldering new parts to those leads...but I suppose that would be necessary in some cases.

Here's a pic of the new couplers...

This was the later of the 2 Elevens I owned.

...and here are the old 'styrenes added to the PS fuse.

The green wire is circuit common/neutral/return/ground.

I state again that I'm no GEA, so I can't tell you how (or even 'that') these 2 changes improved the sound. I'm more of a longer-term-changes guy, but I sold both Elevens soon after this.

I do recall having some problem getting a couple of the the new caps' leads soldered effectively, but I was using 5%-silver solder then and didn't want to overheat the board. I now use Cardas Quad Eutectic; it flows MUCH easier.

Also, you might change slightly the value of the caps depending on how you're using the amp. For instance, if I were biamping and the Eleven was driving the upper 8 or 7 octaves, I might choose a 0.1µF cap. If I were using it fullrange, I might choose 0.22µFs.
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