Marcsten, this is great news that you finally have your gear sorted! I recently got 2 snare drums back from a repair person who had had them for at least 5 or 6 years. It was a very odd situation with me calling every few months, but I have to say, the work was awesome. We're all good now as well.
How is sounding? Maybe I should send them my 101a and S&IC, that shop is close to where it was "born"(the Audionics).
Haven’t set it up yet. It actually sounded pretty nice beforehand except for some scratchy controls. They do good work.....they rehabbed my old Marantz 4400 which included fixing the scope. They work on pretty much everything but they might need the schematic for the S&IC since it is pretty obscure and a fairly complicated piece. Or maybe not if it is just a simple fix or just a recap.
It's easy to re-cap the S&IC, you should use film type coupling capacitors as there is lots of room. The schematics can be downloaded from Steve Kennedy's site. Links are posted here as well if you search around for them.
It is the same repair shop where doity sent his Tetrasound 101 post #42 on this thread. (the bill was higher on mine since I had more parts installed)
The 47µF capacitors are just for the display, they could of been replaced with any good quality electrolytics, has no effect on the sound. The repair shops that you contacted missed out on easy money. Very simple to replace the 10 coupling capacitors! Did you replace the power supply filter caps as well?S&IC back from repair shop this week and sound great(and seem to be decoding more precisely according to the Wurlyscope). They also fixed the loose rca jacks and I had the old cracked power cord replaced. Apparently couldn't source appropriate sized replacements for the six 47mf caps so six bypasses were added, not complaining though, other repair shops I contacted wouldn't even touch it.
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They do look much cleaner but I don't see it specified on the invoice. I requested that anything out of spec be replaced and they said everything tested well after the work had been done, so if not I am assuming that they judged it wasn't necessary.
The big electrolytics in the power supply look new to me in your picture.
Huh. Again, maybe I have been lucky or a member of some sort of secret club that I wasn't aware of, but Bob did my S and IC recaps ten or more years ago. This piece is the center of entire system, so is nearly always in use. It has worked flawlessly since his work. That's all I can say.
Glad it worked out well for you furui. That shop will work on just about anything that you can throw at them. I think they are less selective after they moved to the burbs and business slowed because of it. We have another shop in town that will not even work on stuff if parts seem hard to get, if it is a certain brand or piece, or if it will require more time than usual to diagnose and fix. Granted he is a great guy and won’t charge for estimates and won’t charge for repairs that don’t meet his standards. He actually returned something to me fully fixed and didn’t charge me. I actually rang him up and gave him half the charge because I felt bad for taking advantage.
