So, the short story is that nearly a decade ago, I purchased an Audiolab 8000 CDE CD player and absolutely loved it.
Unfortunately, at the time, Audiolab were sourcing their power trannies from somewhere with quality control issues. Seems that they tend to go faulty and trip their internal thermal fuse.
Death of CD player coincided with implosion of marriage, so what was a very nice player has sat in its box for about 8 years while CD duties went to a budget pioneer DVD player.
This last week I finally dived in to Jaycar and purchased some transformers to fit into an outboard case. Yesterday was the moment of truth when after years, it finally sprang back to life, arguably sounding better than before.
Case needs completion and a 5 pin plug and socket, but this evening I'm a happy listener again.