corry2403
Active Member
Hello folks,
Purchased from the States in March, I am very, very happy to report that it's really quite beautiful and apart from a couple of minor scratches and dings on the wood case it practically looks brand new !! All lights and meters working, the glass, face plate, rear panel and knobs are mint condition and it seems all functions are AOK with the following exceptions;
1. With my CD player connected to AUX, and with the Tape Selector on 'Source', regardless of which input I select the AUX device drowns it out.
It's strange, for example, I'll be listening to vinyl and I'll power up the CD player (AUX) in readiness for playing a CD afterwards, after the CD player powers up, about 2/3 of the output of the phono section gets sucked out (or whatever input I'm listening to at that point), the AUX output then comes over the top of it at normal volume. Power the CD unit off and after a pause of about five seconds the output bumps back up again! It's making me a little concerned that there's been a bit of dodgy modding somewhere...also making me doubt if I getting the full experience from each input source, volume and quality wise. Note that the same issue occurs when I'm listening via headphones.
2. The balance control is a little scratchy towards the extremity of the left-channel. I'll look at cleaning the pot in the next week or so when time allows.
3. It's initially a little bright compared to the AU-7500 it's replacing, but then that was straight out of the box and it's pretty much been packed and in transit for the last two months so I'll run it in for a bit to see how it settles.
So, overall, very relieved. I'm hoping the AUX issue is a fairly straight-forward fix, anyone else come across this one before? Any suggestions re resolution would be greatly appreciated. I'll probably be looking at a recap etc. a little further down the track once I've gathered some coin again
If I posted an image of the internals would anyone be able to spot if anything's been done to it fairly easily?
As ever, any help greatly appreciated :thmbsp:
Purchased from the States in March, I am very, very happy to report that it's really quite beautiful and apart from a couple of minor scratches and dings on the wood case it practically looks brand new !! All lights and meters working, the glass, face plate, rear panel and knobs are mint condition and it seems all functions are AOK with the following exceptions;
1. With my CD player connected to AUX, and with the Tape Selector on 'Source', regardless of which input I select the AUX device drowns it out.
It's strange, for example, I'll be listening to vinyl and I'll power up the CD player (AUX) in readiness for playing a CD afterwards, after the CD player powers up, about 2/3 of the output of the phono section gets sucked out (or whatever input I'm listening to at that point), the AUX output then comes over the top of it at normal volume. Power the CD unit off and after a pause of about five seconds the output bumps back up again! It's making me a little concerned that there's been a bit of dodgy modding somewhere...also making me doubt if I getting the full experience from each input source, volume and quality wise. Note that the same issue occurs when I'm listening via headphones.
2. The balance control is a little scratchy towards the extremity of the left-channel. I'll look at cleaning the pot in the next week or so when time allows.
3. It's initially a little bright compared to the AU-7500 it's replacing, but then that was straight out of the box and it's pretty much been packed and in transit for the last two months so I'll run it in for a bit to see how it settles.
So, overall, very relieved. I'm hoping the AUX issue is a fairly straight-forward fix, anyone else come across this one before? Any suggestions re resolution would be greatly appreciated. I'll probably be looking at a recap etc. a little further down the track once I've gathered some coin again
If I posted an image of the internals would anyone be able to spot if anything's been done to it fairly easily?
As ever, any help greatly appreciated :thmbsp:
