On 8 Jan 2007 16:12:06 -0800, "dpb" wrote:


Puddin' Man wrote:
On 8 Jan 2007 14:27:40 -0800, "dpb" wrote:

Puddin' Man wrote:
...
What I've got is a little 20-yr-old Technics stereo receiver [that] ...appears to be ...dying......
What might I be able to do in terms of replacing the stereo receiver
...

Besides the other suggestions, look for local audio shop. Most any
larger locality will have one and likely will either do repair or can
direct you to person(s) who can. Depending on the model, they may or
may not want to mess with it, but it's worth looking into. Had my old
Kenwood that is nearly 30 now (next year, if memory serves) totally
refurbed two years ago -- new lights, new output power transistors (one
of them died was final causation), replaced a bunch of caps that were
weak or suspect, cleaned it all out, etc., etc., ... It should go on
for another significant lifetime.

Yeah, but how much did it cost? I am "financially challenged". :-)
...

About $100 altogether (this was an individual who does it for a
sideline rather than through the audio shop he works at). The bare
minimum to make it work again would probably have been half that.

Thanks.

BTW, "sliders" is linear potentiometer and it's quite possible a
cleaner could help. Of course, there may also be dead spots, too, but
it's certainly worth a shot if it is static-y kind of noise when
controls are moved.

I've not even noticed a problem when controls are moved.
The static is sometimes left, sometimes right channel,
and sometimes absent altogether. But I've not noticed it
at all when sound comes from tv monitor.

I can get the speakers to balance for tv sound, and
when I tune to radio, balance becomes skewed to the
right speaker, where sound is staticy-distorted.

They had to do a bunch of board-soldering to fix it
about 10 years ago. I ferget the symptoms.

Same as for volume which I would assume is a
kuh-nob? And tuner is, too, not digital???

No kuh-nob. Mea Culpa, I shoulda mentioned up front the
unit is digital.

Puddin'

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homo sapiens ..."