sony st 5950 tuner question

Chriswashere

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Hello, I have a sony st5950 tuner that the "multipath" button will not stay pressed on. Is this how it's supposed to be, or do I need a new button?

Thanks.
 
Have not been lucky enough to find a 5950, but on my Kenwood KT-8007 the Multipath button was non latching/momentary IIRC so I think that yours is probably OK.
 
I had one, completed serviced by one of our renowned tuner specialists.

I think the multipath button is a momentary switch and not supposed to latch. But that's from memory.

If you want it fixed, try a toothpick to brace it in place.
 
I think the idea is you are supposed to push and hold the button to check the meter for multipath interference while fine tuning your antenna orientation, then when you release the button it gets back to doing signal strength duty. Back and forth a few times allows you to get the best compromise between clean and strong signal.
 
As always, read the OM to start with if you do not know
Kind of stupid really, so Sony/Kenwood think that you have to continuously hold in the momentary/multi-path switch button while you tune your antenna direction = PITA.
Like I am on the roof and trying to set antenna direction because I only want to receive a station from one direction and I need my finger on the button at the same time :) I guess this is where you are yelling back and forth to your aid(wife) :) Even with my remote controlled antenna rotor it is a PITA. What are these people/designers thinking?
Many tuners pipe the multi-path into an audio channel so that you have a aural representation of multi-path, but not in this case = to bad.
 
Agreed, I was thinking exactly the same thing as I was writing. That might be OK for an antenna sitting right by the tuner but not so sure how that would help you with rooftop set up!

Fauxhall is right, toothpick.
 
Thanks for your replies everyone! Man I was relieved to learn the multipath button was supposed to be that way. If hifiengine would let me log in I would have checked out the manual to see what was up. I just thought it was dumb for the switch not to latch so I got a little scared but so far the tuner seems to be working great, plus it was free which makes it even better. So far this thing has been a wonderful tuner that has out-performed any other tuner I've owned. Really it's a very impressive piece of equipment.
 
Free ST5950? You are very fortunate. That was one of the top analog tuners and one of the very few I would still pick up if the right deal came around. They are very scarce around here. I have had the ST3950 which is fairly common and two steps down and even it was a lovely tuner.
 
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