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audio gear maintenance & cleaning

  1. kennycrippen

    Dual 1229 Intermittent Noise, Video Included

    I have a Dual 1229 turntable that I've owned for around 13 years. Admittedly I have not had it serviced enough, but it's been a very solid workhorse with hardly any issues. The other day I noticed a noise, which I assumed was the motor. See YouTube video links below. I ordered a replacement...
    • kennycrippen
    • Thread
    • audio gear maintenance & cleaning dual dual 1229 idler assembly idler wheel turntable turntable adjustment turntable motor
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Turntables
  2. A

    Fixing Heathkit AP-1800 static

    Howdy howdy folks The Heathkit AP-1800 is a veritable fidget board of knobs and switches. Some of which tie into these neat linear selectors. There was some distortion and channel dropout when I first got the thing about 6 or 8 months ago off a guy on ebay which a liberal application of deoxit...
    • abnormalcat
    • Thread
    • aa-1800 audio gear maintenance & cleaning heath heathkit preamp
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Solid State
  3. T

    Rubber Renue & Vintage Audio Gear?

    Hey Audiokarma. The tonearm on my newly acquired Sansui SR 525 (awesome sounding turntable!) would swing outward whenever I put the cart over the record and let go. Turns out the little rubber piece on the arm lifter had gone bad and the rubber was no longer tachy allowing the tonearm to slide...
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