kzim229
Active Member
I recently bought a non-working CR-3020 and took it to a tech here in the L.A. area who went through it and got the protection circuit working, cleaned the tone controls etc and the FM front-end; then after firing it up, it had a little too much hum in the preamp section, so he replaced half a dozen or so caps.
I had heard this same 3020 over a year ago at a friend's house (before it broke), and the sound was not good: it was muffled and weak, as if you had turned the bass & treble controls down.
Now it sounds very nice.
Using an amp switcher I compared it head-to-head with my daily-driver CX-2/PC2002M combo, first having both systems alternately drive the same AR-9's, then the more power-hungry AR303's.
There's no discernable difference to me, up to fairly loud volumes (-- above 90db or so, I really don't care! -- my ears are clipping at that point anyhow!)
Sweet! To me this proves what many have said here on AK, that re-capping an older unit can really help it a lot.
I had heard this same 3020 over a year ago at a friend's house (before it broke), and the sound was not good: it was muffled and weak, as if you had turned the bass & treble controls down.
Now it sounds very nice.
Using an amp switcher I compared it head-to-head with my daily-driver CX-2/PC2002M combo, first having both systems alternately drive the same AR-9's, then the more power-hungry AR303's.
There's no discernable difference to me, up to fairly loud volumes (-- above 90db or so, I really don't care! -- my ears are clipping at that point anyhow!)
Sweet! To me this proves what many have said here on AK, that re-capping an older unit can really help it a lot.
