Restoration help with Kenwood kt8300?

[pjrengineer]

I sold it and bought it back you know how that goes.

Anyways

Looking to send this pretty tuner off to someone for a complete restoration.
Recap
Realignment
Everything

I am of the sense with tuners that if you have something that works great but want something better just get yours fixed up rather than sell and buy something else. And I’ve heard it can be a great tuner. Sounds fine now just want it to be BETTER rather than spending a ton of cash on a tu919

Thanks.

 

[RxDx]

Seems 50-50 to me in this case. Kenwoods of this era require some mods to
get the best sound. And your bill might be more than something already in
good shape. Unless you just love this particular tuner, as it seems you do.

 

[pjrengineer]

Seems 50-50 to me in this case. Kenwoods of this era require some mods to
get the best sound. And your bill might be more than something already in
good shape. Unless you just love this particular tuner, as it seems you do.

Well I assume it is not performing up to spec. Am I possibly incorrect? It doesn’t sound as good as my pioneer or Sansui tuners.

 

[RxDx]

fmtunerinfo/shootouts says the KT-8300 is a decent sounding tuner, compared
to the KT-7500, so yours might need some help.

 

[rcs16]

KA8300 or KT8300?
For me the narrow IF in the KT-8300 is still too wide, it needs new filters to make it perform better in a congested FM band. If you are lucky to have a strong FM signal, with no adjacent splatter it is a good sounding tuner. it does suffer from mixer overload as well in my case, but lots of tuners do that except ones with double balanced mixers.

 

[RxDx]

KA-8300 is an integrated amp, KR-xxxx is receivers, KT-xxxx is tuners.