To repair, rebuild, or toss?

It’s a $1k amp that’s probably 20+ years old — I wouldn’t bother fixing it and would take the opportunity to make a significant upgrade.  What specific improvements would you be looking for?  You could get a nice integrated as you should upgrade the preamp as well anyway along with the streamer. 

You don’t have to spend $10,000. 
There are excellent amps that can be had under $5,000 in example Coda No.8 or Simaudio 330a on a used market. 
Since your speakers have powered woofers you can try a Class A amp like Pass XA30.8 or XA25. They show up on used market. There’s also Parasound. 

@amplifier11,

Trash the Rotel. Get a pair of Schiit Tyr mono amps $1599 each and a Schiit Kara F preamp $799. 😎

Mike

I’m not exactly a fan of Rotel, but to be fair the RB-1080 was a perfectly decent amp. Wish the same could be said about your tech though:

The rebuild option entails a visual inspection and replacement of parts that look like they need to be replaced.

That’s got to be the most ridiculous thing heard on Audiogon the entire week... And heavens know that’s a high bar 😂😂🤣

For reference, a real rebuild involves at minimum replacing all electrolytic capacitors with quality name-brand ones, thoroughly verify all factory reference values per service manual and investigating / resolving any discrepancies, inspecting, testing and replacing any components found defective or off-tolerance, and finally performing a listening test.

Oh, and if you’re serious about tossing it, I’ll gladly take it off your hands and restore it to its former glory. I’ll pay for freight!