Given the build quality of that vintage of Rowland gear, I would not be in a hurry to replace the resistors. As for the transistors, the close pair matching Rowland achieves is one of the reasons they sound so good and I would be extremely reluctant to fool with them. You would also be throwing away thousands of hours of break-in - one of the reasons DIY'ers try hard to find vintage tube amps is because of all of the hours on the transformers. The Model 6's cost $11.6k in mid-90's dollars ($16,800 with the batteries) in part because of the quality of their internal components - I'm not saying that they cannot be hotrodded with more exotic caps and resistors, but they don't need such work to be done anytime in the near future.
Roland Updating Service Question
I just bought the Model 6 monoblocks and had a conversation with a roland owner who mentioned to me the updating service available to owners of the older products;I would like to hear views and opinions on this service and if you elected to have it done what changes in performance did you notice after the service was performed.
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