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Its all about the Music
Hi Guys, I have always wanted to hear an SX1010, and what better way to spend some time with one than to have a customer to bring one in for me to give a birthday.
The owner kind of got a bit stitched up with this, he bought it as a "restored" unit, but clearly the work had not been done. Whoever did the work replaced only half the caps on the regulated supply board, and with some no name brand.
Stereo FM light was on all the time (dodgy electro cap in the tuner), tuner was out of whack, one channel running hot, no trimmers replaced, not to mention some dodgy repair work using the wrong transistors...
Then there were the radiant blue LED's fitted, it looked ridiculous, and so blue you could not focus on the dial and meters. I fitted some warm white drop in replacements and now it looks period correct.
I used this forum as the data base, I got a good BOM from a thread in here, and set to replacing every last possible dodgy component.
Then I aligned the tuner and set bias and DC offset, and now while I work on a Sansui X1, I am listening to this 1010.
What an amp, I just love the sound of this thing!! Its got such an authoritative and solid sound, nice top end, sharp and clear, but soft at the same time.
I listened to it for a couple of days before I did the work on it, and by comparison it was a bit soggy...So its definitely worth taking the time to do the work and recap these and change out all the dodgy transistors etc...It responded very positively to having the work done. Its right up there with the G9000 I have to say.
Thank you to all the regular members who post such incredibly helpful information in this forum, you guys rock!!
Couple of pictures to check out this very clean example.
The owner kind of got a bit stitched up with this, he bought it as a "restored" unit, but clearly the work had not been done. Whoever did the work replaced only half the caps on the regulated supply board, and with some no name brand.
Stereo FM light was on all the time (dodgy electro cap in the tuner), tuner was out of whack, one channel running hot, no trimmers replaced, not to mention some dodgy repair work using the wrong transistors...
Then there were the radiant blue LED's fitted, it looked ridiculous, and so blue you could not focus on the dial and meters. I fitted some warm white drop in replacements and now it looks period correct.
I used this forum as the data base, I got a good BOM from a thread in here, and set to replacing every last possible dodgy component.
Then I aligned the tuner and set bias and DC offset, and now while I work on a Sansui X1, I am listening to this 1010.
What an amp, I just love the sound of this thing!! Its got such an authoritative and solid sound, nice top end, sharp and clear, but soft at the same time.
I listened to it for a couple of days before I did the work on it, and by comparison it was a bit soggy...So its definitely worth taking the time to do the work and recap these and change out all the dodgy transistors etc...It responded very positively to having the work done. Its right up there with the G9000 I have to say.
Thank you to all the regular members who post such incredibly helpful information in this forum, you guys rock!!
Couple of pictures to check out this very clean example.
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