In the pictures below we have a Marantz SR 2000 stereo receiver from the early 1980’s. I found it at a garage sale last weekend. It seemed to work well, no audible static and strange noise when the controls were adjusted. Instinctively, I
weaseled the guy down to $40 from $60. The deal was consummated, I mean, I paid him and I was on my way home. Upon arrival at home I found the usual issues that old equipment typically has. The interior was filthy and 2 of the 3 small lights within the unit were burnt out. After cleaning it up and purchasing the type of lights it needed, as per the specifications on the web, I set about to install said lights. Wouldn’t you know it? Mr. Internet was wrong. That’s funny,
Mr. Internet it is almost always completely correct – not. So, being the creative type that I am I enlisted the help of Mr.
Soldering Iron and made it all work. I tend to be quite obsessive about tasks like this and made damn sure that my repairs were up to professional standards. I closed the unit up and took it to the teevee room for a listen. Indeed this old Marantz is more musical than the old Kenwood amp I ran through the same, albeit much more abbreviated process last week. If I was a paid audio scribe I could wax superlatives about its coherence, the depth and breadth of the soundstage and how I could hear the tromboner flub his part in Vivaldi’s Concerto Per Flautino in C Minor. But, I am not an audio scribe and the best I can say is, “it’s musical” and "I hope it sells as quick as the Kenwood did".
weaseled the guy down to $40 from $60. The deal was consummated, I mean, I paid him and I was on my way home. Upon arrival at home I found the usual issues that old equipment typically has. The interior was filthy and 2 of the 3 small lights within the unit were burnt out. After cleaning it up and purchasing the type of lights it needed, as per the specifications on the web, I set about to install said lights. Wouldn’t you know it? Mr. Internet was wrong. That’s funny,
Mr. Internet it is almost always completely correct – not. So, being the creative type that I am I enlisted the help of Mr.
Soldering Iron and made it all work. I tend to be quite obsessive about tasks like this and made damn sure that my repairs were up to professional standards. I closed the unit up and took it to the teevee room for a listen. Indeed this old Marantz is more musical than the old Kenwood amp I ran through the same, albeit much more abbreviated process last week. If I was a paid audio scribe I could wax superlatives about its coherence, the depth and breadth of the soundstage and how I could hear the tromboner flub his part in Vivaldi’s Concerto Per Flautino in C Minor. But, I am not an audio scribe and the best I can say is, “it’s musical” and "I hope it sells as quick as the Kenwood did".