About two years ago, I purchased some AR9s. I was hoping that I would not have to do any DIY, but when they arrived in Sweden, there were a few problems. Inside the cabinet, some heavy inductors and caps had torn loose and rolled around. Since I had access to the XO I took some measurements and realized that many of the caps were completely useless. On top of this some drivers had not been refoamed correctly ... of course it had to be the big 11-inchers...! And one of these even had separatio