schuylercat
Too many systems, so little time...
Dammit.
I bought mine via eBay about 7 months ago and it has been near flawless. Lights are dim on the tuning/signal meters on the left side, but that's a simple fix I planned to do...someday...you know...
Anyway I want to pick the Marantz-Head's brains here: When listening, at any volume, whether speaker selector A or B, to anything BUT the AM/FM section, I get sound drops in the right channel. Tape 1, Tape 2, (tested with RT-707), phono, and Aux (tested with a Pioneer CD player) all come and go on the right. Symptoms are identical regardless the input.
The sound is perfectly clear otherwise, it just sizzles and drops out.
But never, ever, when listening to the radio. I assume the architecture (I can't read a schematic, folks, which is why I come to you) sends radio through a different input than all the other external inputs.
So...when I rotate the source selector back and forth a few time, it goes away. Sometimes. And only temporarily. Dirty pots are on the list, although I was told it was cleaned prior to sale, and all the other pots are without issue - no static, dropouts, dead spots.
Now: I have never had the lid off this machine. If it ain't broke don't fix it, all that. Now it's broke, so I have compressed air, a camel hair brush and ground strap, and DeOxIt standing by. I will give her a gentle but thorough internal cleaning.
Before I do, I would like any and all feedback from the field: am I on the right track here? Anything to look out for? I'm a little nervous about this.
Any and all feedback will be appreciated...
Cheers!
I bought mine via eBay about 7 months ago and it has been near flawless. Lights are dim on the tuning/signal meters on the left side, but that's a simple fix I planned to do...someday...you know...
Anyway I want to pick the Marantz-Head's brains here: When listening, at any volume, whether speaker selector A or B, to anything BUT the AM/FM section, I get sound drops in the right channel. Tape 1, Tape 2, (tested with RT-707), phono, and Aux (tested with a Pioneer CD player) all come and go on the right. Symptoms are identical regardless the input.
The sound is perfectly clear otherwise, it just sizzles and drops out.
But never, ever, when listening to the radio. I assume the architecture (I can't read a schematic, folks, which is why I come to you) sends radio through a different input than all the other external inputs.
So...when I rotate the source selector back and forth a few time, it goes away. Sometimes. And only temporarily. Dirty pots are on the list, although I was told it was cleaned prior to sale, and all the other pots are without issue - no static, dropouts, dead spots.
Now: I have never had the lid off this machine. If it ain't broke don't fix it, all that. Now it's broke, so I have compressed air, a camel hair brush and ground strap, and DeOxIt standing by. I will give her a gentle but thorough internal cleaning.
Before I do, I would like any and all feedback from the field: am I on the right track here? Anything to look out for? I'm a little nervous about this.
Any and all feedback will be appreciated...
Cheers!