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My 9500 coming back to me with FINAL mods,and the BEST possible sound .

Hipocrates said:
AWW come on!!!!:p
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Nice receiver, is that two big yellow antenna's in there?
I was with some guys being demonstrated a modified cd player once in the old days, it had more of such big antenna's in its power supply, maybe eight or so. Size was such it had to be used opened up....They compared against an unmodified one.

Probably because of being a tech, I did not hear any difference.
Thinking they were lucky those antennas disguised as bypass capacitors did not receive that much.;)

There must be some reasonable maximum size, replacing electrolytic caps by yellow antennas.
 
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quadklipsh said:
Ronald , this surely is a coincidence.
Although 9500 is not super rare but it still occurs rarely .
Of the 20 transistors you mentioned i believe theose are the small ones . The small black one half a pea sized. Well mine were also changed 4 yrs ago by the first tech . But i have seen so many fakes in the market here . I know that my first tech used only top notch components coz he cannot deal with fakes repeatedly he says.
Do these small transistors have to do with signal path? Sorry dumb question
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Very rare in my country, some put up a search ad for a 9500 dead-or-alive, if it ever pops up it is for top money.
 
Hyperion.
The difference before n after was NIGHT n DAY .
The highs got so much opened up n detailed.
There was something wrong withwthis machine that got corrected .
m not chasing for some ghost frequencies out of it . Its just so much better balanced now .
 
quadklipsh said:
Hyperion.
The difference before n after was NIGHT n DAY .
The highs got so much opened up n detailed.
There was something wrong withwthis machine that got corrected .
m not chasing for some ghost frequencies out of it . Its just so much better balanced now .
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That's excellent! I am very pleased you are now finding pleasure in listening to it. ;)
 
quadklipsh said:
Please elaborate in english for me .
Is the 2.2 uf capacitor rightfully there in my amp.
Does it mean that what im listening to is now the original state of 9500 as factory settings (with ofcourse the addition of polyprops)..and not any mods to the topology ?
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My friend, step back, put on a nice song, close your eyes and enjoy the music...don't go chasing unicorns
 
As a tech, no way to argue with marketing guys and things they produce (like this video).
Whatever one tells them, it will not get there.

I think some Yamaha engineers would pull their hairs watching this video.
It is a shame how those guys molest the circuit cards the way they rip out parts.

It is just opinion, I am not an expert, although I definately can compete sitting on the couch having my eyes closed :)

I think the amp used in the video ended up in the garbage.
 
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gslikker said:
As a tech, no way to argue with marketing guys and things they produce (like this video).
Whatever one tells them, it will not get there.

I think some Yamaha engineers would pull their hairs watching this video.
It is a shame how those guys molest the circuit cards the way they rip out parts.

It is just opinion, I am not an expert, although I definately can compete sitting on the couch having my eyes closed :)

I think the amp used in the video ended up in the garbage.
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It is a Yamaha engineer in the video tuning the voicing of the amp...what's so hard to understand?
 
My tech did the same manipulation to my sansui using his ears only and some understanding. . It came out just fine to my ears too.but im not advocating anything . It just did for me
 
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stopkidding said:
It is a Yamaha engineer in the video tuning the voicing of the amp...what's so hard to understand?
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I have no problems understanding, since I know the video is aimed at people having no clue about wormanships practices working at electronic stuff.

the video shows an idiot butchering an amp, from a techs/engineers viewpoint.

But it may look perfectly normal to you.
 
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Hipocrates said:
Sorry but those are two muppets messing up nice gear. That video misinform over enthusiast end users.
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You are absolutely correct. What would a self titled "Supervisor of HiFi Group" at Yamaha know? If he knew what he was doing he would be doling out free expert opinion on AK under the "No spin zone"
 
stopkidding said:
You are absolutely correct. What would a self titled "Supervisor of HiFi Group" at Yamaha know? If he knew what he was doing he would be doling out free expert opinion on AK under the "No spin zone"
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I just describing what I see... take it to marketing department.
If you believe that two guys replacing components on a living room gives you more 'musicality' for 'euro market'... more power to you brother.
 
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