Sally, you need to give it a rest with all this SP 274B stuff. If an amp is transformed by the rectifier in place it has some pretty big issues. The Woo is built well so I know it doesn't have those issues. And yes, I've rolled all sorts of rectifiers and damned if I can hear a difference outside the normal day to day fluctuations we all undergo.
Is that blinker fluid leaking out?
Pisser Mike, at least it appears to be entirely cosmetic and something that should be able to be put to good as new status in short order.
There are places in a circuit where it makes sense to spend $$ and places where it does not. So it's very much a "pick your battles" type of thing and also it's also far less of a decision when even the cheapest alternative isn't that much less than the boutique alternative. Paying Mikhail $1000 for V-caps never made any sense to me but when the decision is spend $20 for generic Solen caps or $60 for Silver Unicorn Impregnated Baby Whale caps I say eff the whale and spend the extra dough.