Tandberg TR-2080 - photos posted.
- Thread starter Njord Noatun
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theblackknight
Mikes off! No recording!
Wow! cool story. I read it all. This is really a great thread.
Twenty20Man
Is that you Michael?
great story, thank you.I am a huge tandberg fan. I have 5 cassette decks and always have my eye out.
Tandberg
New Member
Thanx,every one of you!Njord,you ask if it's me on AlternativeAudio.com.No, so far I have only been on a danish site and now here.Denmark is a small country....: )A friend of mine has recommended me to go here and check it out.And I must say that it's very interesting to me.It seems that there's a lot of talk,here,about my favourite subject: Tandberg. I'll be back: )
tgroendahl
New Member
I recall having once upon a time seen a Tandberg catalogue with a "monster" receiver with over 2 x 200 Watt..?
gkarelitsky
Super Member
Just beautiful. Very nice work!
radioactive
tube gear fanatic
looks great.always wanted a tandberg receiver.:thmbsp:
I have one Tandberg 2080 too. I am going to rebuild it. Is there anyone have the experience of replancing and modification ???You could reach me by the email -- kvnlee@gmail.com
Many thanks
Lee
Many thanks
Lee
Pstraums
Perez, Oslo - Norway
Could it have been an amp ? TB has had some powerful very nice sounding poweramps, but to my knowledge I`m not aware of a receiver bigger than this (or the one from the 3000 series (3080?) that are of approx the same strength)
ron-c
Addicted Member
Those were great looking receivers back then and still are. Sold quite a few back in the day. Tricky to work on but not unreliable by any means. In the store back then it was NAD for cheap, then Yamaha or JVC for mid priced, and for the best we sold Tandberg, McIntosh, and Nakamichi as far as receivers went. They were all good though.
Thanks,
Ron-C
Thanks,
Ron-C
Tricky to work on? Not in my experience, mother's milk once you've done a few... and if you master any one of the models in the TR 20xx series, you can work on any of the others with a high degree of expertise.
kvnlee, you can reach me by PM here any time you want to talk about your 2080. I've rebuilt several of them and dozens of other models in that series. Not a big fan of modifications personally but we can talk about that as well, maybe I'll learn something from you too!
BTW, as nice as it looked in these pics, that receiver in Njord's pics ended up on my bench later and I found it had been crudely treated at best by a so-called professional tech in the area. Had to borrow a number of components from a parted out unit to bring it back to original function & correct internal build.
John
kvnlee, you can reach me by PM here any time you want to talk about your 2080. I've rebuilt several of them and dozens of other models in that series. Not a big fan of modifications personally but we can talk about that as well, maybe I'll learn something from you too!
BTW, as nice as it looked in these pics, that receiver in Njord's pics ended up on my bench later and I found it had been crudely treated at best by a so-called professional tech in the area. Had to borrow a number of components from a parted out unit to bring it back to original function & correct internal build.
John
Audio Deacon
Active Member
So I'm rolling around Long Beach this morning hitting yard sales. Thanks to CL, I had my route mapped out. Veering off of the route, I saw a yardsale that wasn't on my radar. Rolled by slow and didn't see any electronics so I kept going. Then something in me made me go back. I asked if there were any stereo's for sale and she pointed me to the backyard and said, "see Dave". I walked back and there was Dave, setting up tools and stuff. "Any Stereo's" I asked. Dave pointed to these three old units. I prefer Marantz or Pioneers and because I didn't see either, I almost walked away. But there was this promising looking unit way at the bottom. "Ho Much?", I asked. "The One At The Bottom" Dave Responded. "Gimme ten Bucks". Not knowing what it was I decided to take a closer look. I wasn't really impressed. But I did like that it said, "made in Norway" on the back. "Does it work?" I asked. He said "yes... I think so." Finally I asked him if it "light's up." He said "yeah". Again, not knowing what it was, or if I was taking a gamble I offered the man Five Bucks. Without hesitation, he said "sure, the bottom one right?" I gave him five bucks and was on my way. After hitting a few more yard sales, I headed home to investigate the Tandberg TR 2080? What is a Tandberg, I asked myself. I cleaned it up and after all the dust was removed, the receiver was a real beauty. It is a 9 on a scale of 1-10. Dial lights are out. Sounds Incredible. FM Tuner is amazing. I will post pictures shortly.
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Theophilus Punoval
The Queen says it's OK...
Meh
I'm saying "meh" because I'm jealous.
I'm saying "meh" because I'm jealous.
markn2wae
Mark T N2WAE
Headphone jack tip, aftermarket speaker plug warning.
Njord, welcome to AK!:thmbsp:
You got a real nice score (a FM signal meter calibrated in uV is a real plus!)
I have the FM only TR-2040, and I used it at one of my last jobs where if you wanted music at your bench it was "No speakers, headphones only" rules.
The preset setting controls always needed cleaning but once set, they stayed put.
You may notice the headphone jack works best with the 1/4 inch plug not fully inserted into the jack, pulled back about 3/16 of an inch from "bottomed out".
I "fixed" this problem using a collar of clear shrink tubing on my headphone plug that is about 3/16 inch wide, shrunk enough to not be loose or fall off, this seems to be an issue of what shape the plug tip is, rounded, tapered, pointed etc., your results may vary.
Because my situation with electrical interference (and not a good antenna) I completely lined the inside of the wood part of the cabinet wit tin foil and put in an IEC 3-wire filtered power AC input, and put some small bypass capacitors on the headphone lines at the jack.
This improved my signal to a point where I got good reception MOST of the time (being in an industrial park, the power lines\airwaves where somewhat noisy).
As to to speaker connections, if your set uses the "flat pin round pin" type if plug, beware of the aftermarket replacements, they tend to use a soft plastic that melts quickly when you try to solder to the plugs.:sigh:
The plug will get hot and fall apart before you can finish soldering, you must have a way to support the contacts while soldering!:yes:
To minimize the problem, put your speaker wires through the supplied cap, take the bare plug and insert it into the receiver jack (unplug the set from the AC line!) then solder your wires to the plug pins and let it cool COMPLETELY TO ROOM TEMP. before handling\assembling the plug assembly!:yes:
One day I will put standard speaker posts on it.:scratch2:
Hope this helps!
Mark T.
Njord, welcome to AK!:thmbsp:
You got a real nice score (a FM signal meter calibrated in uV is a real plus!)
I have the FM only TR-2040, and I used it at one of my last jobs where if you wanted music at your bench it was "No speakers, headphones only" rules.
The preset setting controls always needed cleaning but once set, they stayed put.
You may notice the headphone jack works best with the 1/4 inch plug not fully inserted into the jack, pulled back about 3/16 of an inch from "bottomed out".
I "fixed" this problem using a collar of clear shrink tubing on my headphone plug that is about 3/16 inch wide, shrunk enough to not be loose or fall off, this seems to be an issue of what shape the plug tip is, rounded, tapered, pointed etc., your results may vary.
Because my situation with electrical interference (and not a good antenna) I completely lined the inside of the wood part of the cabinet wit tin foil and put in an IEC 3-wire filtered power AC input, and put some small bypass capacitors on the headphone lines at the jack.
This improved my signal to a point where I got good reception MOST of the time (being in an industrial park, the power lines\airwaves where somewhat noisy).
As to to speaker connections, if your set uses the "flat pin round pin" type if plug, beware of the aftermarket replacements, they tend to use a soft plastic that melts quickly when you try to solder to the plugs.:sigh:
The plug will get hot and fall apart before you can finish soldering, you must have a way to support the contacts while soldering!:yes:
To minimize the problem, put your speaker wires through the supplied cap, take the bare plug and insert it into the receiver jack (unplug the set from the AC line!) then solder your wires to the plug pins and let it cool COMPLETELY TO ROOM TEMP. before handling\assembling the plug assembly!:yes:
One day I will put standard speaker posts on it.:scratch2:
Hope this helps!
Mark T.
Umm, check the dates on this thread... Njord is long gone and it was another poster that revived the TR 2080 discussion.
Interesting mods to that TR 2040 though. Never had any trouble with the headphone jacks on my collection of TR 20xx receivers, maybe the plugs you ran into that on weren't standard dimension, that happens.
John
Interesting mods to that TR 2040 though. Never had any trouble with the headphone jacks on my collection of TR 20xx receivers, maybe the plugs you ran into that on weren't standard dimension, that happens.
John
