Hi, everyone.
It has been a while since I posted, so thought I'd share what I anticipate to be something great. My QB "restored" 9001 had been making intermittent popping sounds from right rear channel for years. Couldn't get in Bob's work line at the time, thankfully, and got some good info. here about sending it to Pennsylvania for a quality fix, but just didn't get the time/energy to send it. So, put an unrestored Marantz 4400 in 9001's place and sat and looked at poor 9001 for the last 6 months. Well, I saw upon visiting here last weekend that there is a guy, Jim of Vintage Stereo in Eugene Oregon who specializes in QRX restorations, is forthcoming about "secrets" and seems to really know his stuff. I emailed him and got a response that my fix might be easy!! He sent me directions to take out some boards (I sent four in all) and he is going to fix what he thinks causes the popping, do a fantastic "diff mod" and give me the "holy grail" which I didn't get through QB because it wasn't quite available yet. So far, this has been a great experience and I'll post when I get everything back! Jim, even in the process of moving, has returned all my emails and given great information. Mailing these boards is scary, but much easier than shipping a huge receiver!! Please keep your fingers crossed for me that the problem actually resides in the board where Jim thinks it does and that I get back the most discrete sounding quad receiver ever known! I've even gotten motivated through Audio Karma searching to make my 9001 cabinet look better. I bought these products: Howard's Restore a finish and feed and wax and found them awesome so far. I actually went on to do my Klipsch La Scala's and Heresy's too and they look fantastic. I had previously used Old English Lemon Oil, but it didn't seem to last that long. I'm on the second coat, and this stuff is a wax type product, right now and the speakers and my ratty 9001 cabinet look great!
I do have a question or three now that I will soon be re-doing cables and such and getting behind all that hardware. If anyone has any answers to these, please post or PM me. I'd love some insight.
1. My QB restored Akai CR80DSS has begun to act funny when the tape gets to the foil. Whether new foil or older foil, short foil or longer foil, it half-heartedly makes the "kerchunk" sound at the end of the program and does not go to the next program. Just restarts one or two (whichever I began on). Is there anything I can do about this? I've been getting up and manually changing it, but finally just started using the technics deck which is unrestored, but works, but you have to turn the volume higher when using it.
2. I bought DBX SNR 1's to help with noise and such on these decks. Well, I'm not so sure they do all that much because I can still hear the tape making physical noise from winding through the music (not on all tapes, some are quieter - physically). I'm wondering if just taking the SNR's out of the stream might be a good idea. I'd love less cabling back there. Have all the cabling associated with the dbx 400s as well, but need them with the Sansui due to my number of sources. Any thoughts about these units - the SNR 1's? And, what is your two cents on whether they should come out or stay? I know I can take 'em out and listen, and will do that, but wanted opinions you may have. Maybe my ears aren't resolving! Maybe the equipment deteriorates. I don't know.
3. My 9001 isn't dusty or anything on the inside, but while it is open, should I deoxit anything or just leave well enough alone? I don't remember it having any scratchy sounding knobs or anything prior to being taken out of service 6 months ago, but it has just been sitting. Is there such a thing as too much deoxit-ing?
4. I have a Marantz 6300 tt which I use for quad with an AT20 cart. When the renewed, holy-grailed 9001 gets back, will I be getting the best for QS and SQ even though I run the 6300 to the Marantz CD-400 demodulator or am I missing something not going straight to the 9001 phono input (which I've never used)? I don't want to have less than great CD-4 performance if I do that, however. So any opinions there? Am I using the SQ and QS in the Sansui when passing through that demodulator? Trying to plan ahead and get this right! Can't wait for the Lou Dorren demodulator and hope it will be easy to hook up. A modern demodulator would sure remove some of my headaches trying to make sure the vintage ones are doing their jobs.
Okay, sorry it got long. Hope you can help me with my questions and you visit Jim's website (http://www.qrxrestore.com/). Also, sorry this is truly dumb, but I can't figure out how to send pics. I don't know what they mean by URL and was just hoping to "attach" like in email. A member here asked me for a scan of my Q8 of Eric Burden Band Sun Secrets and I dutifully took pics, put them in my computer, but couldn't send them to him in a PM. Also, I could post pics of my current system and that would be fun. Again, sorry I'm missing something here. Help if you can! Happy quad listening!
Laura
It has been a while since I posted, so thought I'd share what I anticipate to be something great. My QB "restored" 9001 had been making intermittent popping sounds from right rear channel for years. Couldn't get in Bob's work line at the time, thankfully, and got some good info. here about sending it to Pennsylvania for a quality fix, but just didn't get the time/energy to send it. So, put an unrestored Marantz 4400 in 9001's place and sat and looked at poor 9001 for the last 6 months. Well, I saw upon visiting here last weekend that there is a guy, Jim of Vintage Stereo in Eugene Oregon who specializes in QRX restorations, is forthcoming about "secrets" and seems to really know his stuff. I emailed him and got a response that my fix might be easy!! He sent me directions to take out some boards (I sent four in all) and he is going to fix what he thinks causes the popping, do a fantastic "diff mod" and give me the "holy grail" which I didn't get through QB because it wasn't quite available yet. So far, this has been a great experience and I'll post when I get everything back! Jim, even in the process of moving, has returned all my emails and given great information. Mailing these boards is scary, but much easier than shipping a huge receiver!! Please keep your fingers crossed for me that the problem actually resides in the board where Jim thinks it does and that I get back the most discrete sounding quad receiver ever known! I've even gotten motivated through Audio Karma searching to make my 9001 cabinet look better. I bought these products: Howard's Restore a finish and feed and wax and found them awesome so far. I actually went on to do my Klipsch La Scala's and Heresy's too and they look fantastic. I had previously used Old English Lemon Oil, but it didn't seem to last that long. I'm on the second coat, and this stuff is a wax type product, right now and the speakers and my ratty 9001 cabinet look great!
I do have a question or three now that I will soon be re-doing cables and such and getting behind all that hardware. If anyone has any answers to these, please post or PM me. I'd love some insight.
1. My QB restored Akai CR80DSS has begun to act funny when the tape gets to the foil. Whether new foil or older foil, short foil or longer foil, it half-heartedly makes the "kerchunk" sound at the end of the program and does not go to the next program. Just restarts one or two (whichever I began on). Is there anything I can do about this? I've been getting up and manually changing it, but finally just started using the technics deck which is unrestored, but works, but you have to turn the volume higher when using it.
2. I bought DBX SNR 1's to help with noise and such on these decks. Well, I'm not so sure they do all that much because I can still hear the tape making physical noise from winding through the music (not on all tapes, some are quieter - physically). I'm wondering if just taking the SNR's out of the stream might be a good idea. I'd love less cabling back there. Have all the cabling associated with the dbx 400s as well, but need them with the Sansui due to my number of sources. Any thoughts about these units - the SNR 1's? And, what is your two cents on whether they should come out or stay? I know I can take 'em out and listen, and will do that, but wanted opinions you may have. Maybe my ears aren't resolving! Maybe the equipment deteriorates. I don't know.
3. My 9001 isn't dusty or anything on the inside, but while it is open, should I deoxit anything or just leave well enough alone? I don't remember it having any scratchy sounding knobs or anything prior to being taken out of service 6 months ago, but it has just been sitting. Is there such a thing as too much deoxit-ing?
4. I have a Marantz 6300 tt which I use for quad with an AT20 cart. When the renewed, holy-grailed 9001 gets back, will I be getting the best for QS and SQ even though I run the 6300 to the Marantz CD-400 demodulator or am I missing something not going straight to the 9001 phono input (which I've never used)? I don't want to have less than great CD-4 performance if I do that, however. So any opinions there? Am I using the SQ and QS in the Sansui when passing through that demodulator? Trying to plan ahead and get this right! Can't wait for the Lou Dorren demodulator and hope it will be easy to hook up. A modern demodulator would sure remove some of my headaches trying to make sure the vintage ones are doing their jobs.
Okay, sorry it got long. Hope you can help me with my questions and you visit Jim's website (http://www.qrxrestore.com/). Also, sorry this is truly dumb, but I can't figure out how to send pics. I don't know what they mean by URL and was just hoping to "attach" like in email. A member here asked me for a scan of my Q8 of Eric Burden Band Sun Secrets and I dutifully took pics, put them in my computer, but couldn't send them to him in a PM. Also, I could post pics of my current system and that would be fun. Again, sorry I'm missing something here. Help if you can! Happy quad listening!
Laura
