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I've got a little problem. I have little home studio setup consisting of a pair of Adam t7v's, an SSL2 interface and a little t10s subwoofer. Never had any problems (e.f some static noise). But now after upgrading to a pair of second hand Adam S1X's, and connecting them to my Audio Interface...

Recently purchased a PL-41 at auction for a great price. It needed to have it's belt and thrust plate replaced, as well as some cosmetic work, but apart from that, it seems like it hadn't been used much. I followed the instruction in the manual, and added two drops of sewing machine oil in the...

Hi all and thank you in advance. I have a beautiful Sansui G-5700 that I had professional restored 8 or so years back. The past 2-3 years it wasn’t getting much use. It was being safely stored at a family members house after I moved abroad temporarily. Recently, I moved back locally and have...

Hello all, I am trying to repair my said AVR after it started going into protection blinky red. Have some knowledge of electronics (college courses in the 90s :)) and do solder here and there. Service manual for this AVR is here. So far, successfully replaced 7912 voltage regulator in the...

Good evening everyone, I recently picked-up a used Technics SL-1300. After cleaning it up a bit and fixing some speed issues, the thing was running smoothly. Until after about a week of listening the left channel went pop-crack-crunch and was completely gone. After some jiggling and...

Alright so I got some PSB image 4t towers used and noticed right off the bat that they sounded terrible contrary to all the fantastic reviews. I ended up tracing the issue to the tweeters. Seeing that stock replacements aren't available and if they are are far more than I want to pay I was...

Hey there all, Hoping someone has a fix for this before I either: a) tinker this tape deck to death b) pay someone else to deal with it I'm trying to record some mixes from an external source, and for whatever reason, I can't get the record button to work while playing the tape forward. At...

Hello, I have a pair of Alesis M1 Active Mk2s, and the tweeter on one of them has finally broken. The replacement process itself is easy enough, I was troubleshooting to see if it was a fuse or the tweeter itself by switching between the two monitors, and came to find that soldering isn't even...

My grandfather gave me his old quadraphonic 8 track player and I recently took it to work to power a set of Kenwood 3 way floorstanders I found in an abandoned area of the building. When I hooked everything up it worked but sounded very quiet, then all of a sudden the right channel gets really...

Hey guys, I recently acquired a Yamaha TC1000 is good cosmetic condition. I was too fired up to do any cleaning and hooked it up to a Onkyo TX 2500. I have attached a video of this awful sound from the left channel that remains when switching the input on the Yamaha. Any advice is welcome...

Hi all, I bought a Fisher E44 console with built in turntable at a vintage store. My issue is a low frequency thud/rumble coming from the sub woofers, maybe 5-10Hz bass rumble. I have tried the following to troubleshoot this issue: - My setup consists of a built-in turntable, a preamp/tuner...

Hey guys/ girls, I have this old cabinate I'd like to get working. The problem I have is the turntable doesn't produce any sound. The radio side works fine. The turntable seems to work properly. It spins and the arm comes out and down onto the vinyl automatically. I've changed the cartridge to...

Hey everyone, I have a Kenwood KR-4070 that I've used for about two years now with no problems but recently I noticed that the right channel is very quiet, but only while running through either the Aux or Tape inputs. The Phono input works flawlessly and has great sound through both L/R...

Hi everyone. This is my first post to Audio Karma. A few months ago, my Kyocera D-611 stopped working. The symptoms indicated I simply needed a new idler tire. The other day, I finally got around to ordering a new idler tire. That seems to have solved half the problem and I have something else...

I recently acquired a Pioneer CT-540 cassette deck, and it has a few problems. When in the play mode, the reel on the right won't move. It also won't rewind or fast forward. I do have an idea as to what the problem is, and it has to do with an idler wheel that pushes up against the reels. The...

A little while back, I picked up an 8-track deck from a thrift store. It's a Probe(?) DX-5000. I can't find any information on the company that made it, let alone any manuals. This is what it looks like: It plays and records fine, and both sound pretty decent for 8-track standards. However, it...

For awhile now, I've had a Denon DRR-M10 as a secondary cassette deck. Playback quality sounds fine, but recording quality is not as good as I think it should be. So, I set up an experiment. I took 3 blank tapes: one I thought was a good example of a type I tape (a NOS Sony tape), one I thought...

Okay, so I've got a problem with my old Taurus. When I turn the audio on or off I get a couple o'pops in some of the speakers. It's noticeable in both of my '96 JBL 180w amps, and just a little bit in my '00 MACH 180w. The base 8/12w is fine. I've mixed and matched different boards and the...

So I have this aging receiver (TEAC AG-V8060) that has stood the test of time up until recently. I noticed that the left channel sounded like it was clipping. At first I thought I blew a woofer cone, since it was mostly occurring with the kick drum. I freaked out and took the cloth grille off...

So, I picked up a Sansui FR-3080 from the thrift store. Everything seems okay but there's one strange problem: when it auto-returns at the end of the record, the tonearm lifter doesn't come up in time. The tonearm does the returning, but it drags across the record for a few seconds before the...

I'm not sure where to put this so I'm going to put it here and hope for the best. I recently acquired a BSR MCD8050 CD/Cassette combo. It won't do anything when I press any of the buttons. All the belts and stuff inside are good. I'm stumped. Please help!

This one might be hard to explain, but I'm gonna try my best. Recently, I acquired a JVC JL-F30 fully-automatic turntable. The only big problem it had initially was that the arm raising assembly was completely broken. Since then, some new problems have come up. They are as follows: When I try...

I have an old jbl sub amplifier that i bought as "not working" in order to repair it. With no speakers hooked up, the protection light turns on immediately, but slowly fades down, the power light flickers, the protection lights turns on and etc. Ive taken it apart and all the components look...

I picked up a Sanyo TP-1012 at a thrift store today and am having the following problems: Tonearm will not lift during auto return. I can lift it manually just fine. Tonearm lifter has lost dampening. Warped platter. Not sure if there is a real fix to this, but I thought I'd make it known...

While I generally do not work on re-pop's or Hybrids, I decided "Why not" so here goes.......... This is a Blues Deluxe, a modern amplifier that has tubes in it is the only way to describe it. This is not a pleasant device to work on. Given that the problem was described as a power...