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Magnavox 9304 (el84) - sounds flat/muffled/blah - help!

Thats actually one thing I think the original grounding scheme got wrong, instead of the transformer center tap connecting to the power supply cap ground, it lands a fair distance away from it. Somehow it managed to be quiet anyway, but usually you want the first cap ground at least to be connected to the same point as the transformer so no hum current has to flow across the chassis. Using a cap with a ground terminal and running a wire from there to the trafo CT fixes that issue.
 
if the cathode bypass cap on the output tubes is ailing, the bass response will die with it. You can bump the value a bit, 47uf 50v is probably fine.

The symptom does sound like dried-out bypass cap issue. Bypass cap parallel cathode-tied resistors. :)
 
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