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I know a little about electronics, and a little about hifi... how vintage are you talking? Valve amps? What are you hoping to achieve by going this route? What do you currently have, what are your hopes?
If its about getting the best sound for the least money, it may be foolhardy, however, if you think it will be an enjoyable passtime, that's a diferent conversation...
Anyone into vintage hifi and or know about repairing? on 12:00 - Jan 22 by SaleAway
I know a little about electronics, and a little about hifi... how vintage are you talking? Valve amps? What are you hoping to achieve by going this route? What do you currently have, what are your hopes?
If its about getting the best sound for the least money, it may be foolhardy, however, if you think it will be an enjoyable passtime, that's a diferent conversation...
I like and prefer the look and sound (though it may be partly psychological) of the old kit.
I have a wonderful old Pioneer receiver which I bought full serviced / recapped a few years ago. At the moment I have a modern Marantz in the kitchen. It would be nice to have vintage there as well.
I am by nature someone who develops multiple little hobbies / interests and gets fairly heavily into them without ever really becoming expert or focussed on one thing in the long term. Electronics is something I havent dabbled in yet :-) So I saw an early 70s Japanese receiver for very reasonable price which apparenetly has a "hum" and will doubtless need some fairly thorough servicing and recapping. And true to my nature I thought - "surely I could learn to do that".
Anyone into vintage hifi and or know about repairing? on 12:05 - Jan 22 by redrickstuhaart
I like and prefer the look and sound (though it may be partly psychological) of the old kit.
I have a wonderful old Pioneer receiver which I bought full serviced / recapped a few years ago. At the moment I have a modern Marantz in the kitchen. It would be nice to have vintage there as well.
I am by nature someone who develops multiple little hobbies / interests and gets fairly heavily into them without ever really becoming expert or focussed on one thing in the long term. Electronics is something I havent dabbled in yet :-) So I saw an early 70s Japanese receiver for very reasonable price which apparenetly has a "hum" and will doubtless need some fairly thorough servicing and recapping. And true to my nature I thought - "surely I could learn to do that".
But my brain is telling me its not that simple!
Didn't you make a musical instrument from scratch once?
“What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it........."
Anyone into vintage hifi and or know about repairing? on 12:05 - Jan 22 by redrickstuhaart
I like and prefer the look and sound (though it may be partly psychological) of the old kit.
I have a wonderful old Pioneer receiver which I bought full serviced / recapped a few years ago. At the moment I have a modern Marantz in the kitchen. It would be nice to have vintage there as well.
I am by nature someone who develops multiple little hobbies / interests and gets fairly heavily into them without ever really becoming expert or focussed on one thing in the long term. Electronics is something I havent dabbled in yet :-) So I saw an early 70s Japanese receiver for very reasonable price which apparenetly has a "hum" and will doubtless need some fairly thorough servicing and recapping. And true to my nature I thought - "surely I could learn to do that".
But my brain is telling me its not that simple!
The thing with "hum", is that it could be anything, but one thing I would be concerned about is that retro kit wasn't designed with rf interference in mind. Obviously, in our houses now, we have wifi, microwaves, powerline internet, cellular, blueooth etc, and a lot of old electronics just don't have the rf shielding and filtering to exist happily in that sort of environment.
It will be an interesting experiment, but it may be that the receiver does not have anything materially wrong with it, but that you would have to essentially redesign its layout and shielding to remove the hum.
Or, you could replace some capacitors, clean it out, make sure all connections were good, and it might be fine.
Let us know what you decide, and how you get on :-)
Anyone into vintage hifi and or know about repairing? on 12:18 - Jan 22 by SaleAway
The thing with "hum", is that it could be anything, but one thing I would be concerned about is that retro kit wasn't designed with rf interference in mind. Obviously, in our houses now, we have wifi, microwaves, powerline internet, cellular, blueooth etc, and a lot of old electronics just don't have the rf shielding and filtering to exist happily in that sort of environment.
It will be an interesting experiment, but it may be that the receiver does not have anything materially wrong with it, but that you would have to essentially redesign its layout and shielding to remove the hum.
Or, you could replace some capacitors, clean it out, make sure all connections were good, and it might be fine.
Let us know what you decide, and how you get on :-)
I haven't bought it yet. Every chance I will chicken out :-)
Anyone into vintage hifi and or know about repairing? on 12:05 - Jan 22 by redrickstuhaart
I like and prefer the look and sound (though it may be partly psychological) of the old kit.
I have a wonderful old Pioneer receiver which I bought full serviced / recapped a few years ago. At the moment I have a modern Marantz in the kitchen. It would be nice to have vintage there as well.
I am by nature someone who develops multiple little hobbies / interests and gets fairly heavily into them without ever really becoming expert or focussed on one thing in the long term. Electronics is something I havent dabbled in yet :-) So I saw an early 70s Japanese receiver for very reasonable price which apparenetly has a "hum" and will doubtless need some fairly thorough servicing and recapping. And true to my nature I thought - "surely I could learn to do that".
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