I "repaired" my speaker mounting out in the garage. They used to be on big thick pine shelves, up against the back wall. Now hangers!
Better bass, better soundstage, lots of air, zero vibration coupling to the garage structure. I really wanted to hang the JBL HLS 615s (towers) but opted for the HLS 610s instead. It was all I could do to hoist those up there, using one arm to hold the speaker, the other to climb the ladder. 4, 5 ft lengths of plastic covered steel cables with "U" clamps hold them up there.
Better bass, better soundstage, lots of air, zero vibration coupling to the garage structure. I really wanted to hang the JBL HLS 615s (towers) but opted for the HLS 610s instead. It was all I could do to hoist those up there, using one arm to hold the speaker, the other to climb the ladder. 4, 5 ft lengths of plastic covered steel cables with "U" clamps hold them up there.
Ya know, tonight I was playing an LP on that Zenith, and accidentally bumped it.
It did't skip, or miss a beat!
Tracking at 2 grams yet!
So I bounced the changer's chassis (it's spring-suspended), and the damn thing would not skip!
I found out why.... from an interesting youtube video from 1962.
Interesting, the technology back in those days.
That's my "discone" antenna. Every once in a while I find a radio to test that connects via 75 ohm coax, which I need an antenna for. It's mostly there because that's a nice out of the way place, for such an unwieldy object to be stored assembled. I got it when I was playing around with SDR receivers; it covers 25 MHz to over 1G.
I see the amplifier shown there on ebay often. Almost took delivery on one too - until I realized those have unusable OPTs, when used outside of Zenith's original system. I begged off and the guy cancelled my order no problem! Those amps work fine when you replace the OPTs with normal ones.
Hanging speakers like that really works. Better bass and soundstage for sure.
The speakers in my house sound like... my house. There's resonances and the bass is loud as hell, three rooms away. But in the garage, the speakers kind of disappear. Hanging them above the room and away from the wall is the way to go if possible.
I repaired a Thorens TD184 (low speed at 28rpm, deep motor cleaning, resolder almost everything, cleaning and lube, tube amp to fix) and a Harman-Kardon Rabco ST-7 (changing the roller and general cleaning and adjustment). Currently working on a Wadia WT3200 (repairing the AT&T glass optical output).
Oh, I forget, an old LG washing machine, I changed yesterday the two dampers dating from 1999. And today a Dell XPS13 belonging to my younger son and whose an aluminium piece receiving one of the back screws holding the back to the upper part was broken after a fall (didn't I say it before? Ah yes, I said it was my young son's computer!). And from the same boy, an iPhoneX screen replacing. But that is not as fun as Hifi.
When I figure out how to make larger panes non-resonant, I'm sure I'll try hanging OBs. Maybe one day I'll run into some luck like dave, score some bus-stop plastic!
A Marantz PM 450 volume control
When you turned the volume up the left channel was quieter
so after some basic checks i put it down to the VOL control
It was broken inside.There is a piece the conjoins the right and left channels and where this piece was broken it was about 3 'clicks' behind the right, so it gave the appearance it was quieter, but wasnt realy
so fixed the broken piece and put it all back together after giving it all a good clean, and it realy needed it
the whole amp when i got it was covered in nicotine, inside and out, and when i cleaned it all, it was just running yellow, anyway all cleaned up now
When you turned the volume up the left channel was quieter
so after some basic checks i put it down to the VOL control
It was broken inside.There is a piece the conjoins the right and left channels and where this piece was broken it was about 3 'clicks' behind the right, so it gave the appearance it was quieter, but wasnt realy
so fixed the broken piece and put it all back together after giving it all a good clean, and it realy needed it
the whole amp when i got it was covered in nicotine, inside and out, and when i cleaned it all, it was just running yellow, anyway all cleaned up now
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Def 👍Indeed it is! The other one was worse. I still have to remove the bottom covers and clean/remove the rubberized coating with alcohol because they became quite tacky/sticky. I was cleaning up to sell them but I might just spin a mix or two before then
Looks like that originally had the cuing light, and was modified for some reason.Nice cleanup!
Is that a single RCA jack sticking up out of the deck down in front there?
Yes. It's original and the place for a modern target light. No moving parts and no incandescent lamp anymoreNice cleanup!
Is that a single RCA jack sticking up out of the deck down in front there?
Here's a pic of my Reloop with the light installed