Great work!! You clearly know your stuff. I'm just decided to re-enter vinyl with the purchase of an Audiolab 6000A, I'm now in the market for a turntable. Started off looking a vintage such as Pioneer PL-550, i liked their look and must admit was pretty adverse to the plastic and/or DJ style tables out there. BUT have done some further research, the Technics tables continually appear as the best out there. There are a lot of models though and they appear to hold their price incredibly well - so started thinking that I'd be better off with a new SL-1500C (which is about $1,800, with a 2M Red) rather than chancing an older table which I'd like need to get restored (and those parts alone aren't cheap). Did cross my mind however that maybe the SL-1500C isn't set for ionic status into the future (won't hold it's price)... what do you think?

Never heard of Suntan Capacitors where do you even buy those?

Excellent overview of this Sony vintage masterpiece. However, the amplifier was not cheap, and certainly not "budget". In 1977, the amplifier was priced at about £200... a lot of money for most folks. The amplifier would be well over one thousand pounds in today's money... £100 in 1977 would be the equivalent of over £600-700 today!

Interesting about the heal rub on the swing arm. I have just looked some photos of a bike that is for sale used, and it has the same rub mark.

I’ve got the MX6 now for six years so far no problems

Ok mate, I reckon you should get a kick back from evotech. After watching this and your tail tidy vid, I went with both of the same also. I have the same bike as yourself (slightly different) and wow, those mirrors are bloody awesome. Thanks for the Videos mate..

$1000 😳 jeepers

Let’s get the word out to quit buying from them and if you have a unit that is still returnable, send it back. Let them know not to screw with us, the folks on KZbin.

Nice video! I bought this amplifier about 2 years ago, from a Brazilan guy (techinician of course), restored(capacitors, transistors,resistors etc.), also the exterior is like new. Here in Amsterdam. Sounds great and has enough power for my Triangle Borea III; 90db sensitivity. I can't put the volume pot at a quarter, that's to loud. But it sounds also very well at low volumes. And i don't need a subwoofer, low frequencies, bass enough. Bluesound Node 2i streamer. Spotify and very often "Radio Paradise" , it's in the Bluesound streamer. Very nice radio station (my taste anyway)!! I had also "Tidal" very good sound( higher resolution etc.), but the user interface gave problems sometimes. Spotify never, works perfectly everytime. At least my experience. Maybe now it's solved by Tidal?

Given Australia Post and the rest's prices, do you know anybody in QLD that deals with these machines, they're an over engineered nightmare? Thx.

My used but mint SA-14S1 SE arrived yesterday and the drawer refuses to open. I'm gutted but it has a 90 day warranty so at least the dealer will take it back. As to whether they fix it for me is another matter.

A total time capsule! I always have great experience buying from Japan. The care they put into their possessions and even packing and shipping is second to none. That VFD might brighten up with some more use - assuming it’s been powered off since it was originally tested at the factory 😊

Another gorgeous turntable saved by the master! Nice work Mike and happy holidays :)

Inhave a SL220 and upgraded the stylist. It sounds great

Good find! How much was the tax / duty in UK, if you don't mind?! I saw good radios in Japan on ebay, very cheap prices. Thank you!

I own one bought by me in the nineties..simply amazing machine,but now,I d like to go for liquid,so I am selling it.

I wish there was some guide for restoring and bringing back the PM665 and PM665vxi.

I purchased a PM665VXI since I could not find the non vxi which I always wanted. However, the description on eBay said the speaker wires heat up. I am wondering is that a serious problem or someone didn't set it properly for correct speaker ohm? I am just guessing. I may ship it to you and get it fixed or may just do it myself first. I am thinking of recapping the whole thing from top to bottom including the power supply filters.

Sound....."ok" ???? At the time they were streets ahead of most brands delivering the best value for money. Sure, all brabds suffered from build quality.... I hate their poor pcb quality.....tracks lift....bad soldering of certain units, especially the 3140. I agree, putting high wattage resistors so close to fragile components is nuts!!!!

Good sounding amp but the major design flaw is that they over heat very quickly due to inadequate ventilation and a somewhat small heatsink. Some of the resistors should also be raised more from the board to allow ventilation beneath them. So almost the perfect amount but not quite.

this rossman use a LFP on ways any LFP will be destroyed so he is in fail. under the bonnet of a car 2 aspects importand for a battery : 1. high heat resitance near the engine what lead acid have but LFP degrade heavy or can be destroyed. 2. the only real task for a under bonnet battery is bring 1x 1000 ampere buersat to start the engine what lead acid desing for , and ecactly this sort of task kills a LFP this are no burst batterys on this way this guy destroy in 1 year a LFP , why not earlyer? pure fail to make after a pure fail abouse of LFP against a product for that its not design..... i wonder how a battery can still have any capacity on this way.....

How would I even open this player? There are three screws on the back I took out but I cant lift / pull the lid at all.

I bought one used in 1986, used it for about five or six years but gradually less and less due to my growing use of CDs. Finally got rid of it in the summer of 2000 (Yeah, I know... my VZ 2000 gone in 2000) because half a zillion things were wrong with it and it was a maintenence nightmare. Fun while it lasted, but Ive moved on.

I used isopropyl on my PM645 and the letters fell off dissolved away. Most are left but a lot of the missing icons. I am upset.

The design and built quality of these 70s and 80s audio machines is still uncompareable built like tanks to last for decades and looking gorgeous , they don't built machines like these anymore and what they make today is most of them { except some like YAMAHA A-S1200/2200/3200 vintage look but who knows for how long ? ) ungly and last for a few years at best .

Great Video. Where Is the best place to buy old Amplifiers / Electronics from in Japan.

Beautiful. I sooo much do understand the feeling ov being able to buy what you could not in the younger days. I have that with Marantz equipment 😂 Where i. Japan do we find this. There are some on ebay. But um not aure i can trust it. And thanks for those absolutely beautiful videos😅

The price is too high because you can see the worst Philips mechanism that moves the pickup via gears and the ordinary brush motor for rotating the CD. All brush motors are very noisy when they spark.

beautiful unit there. A note on the display: in my experience VFDs don't dim so substantially when they haven't at all been used. I supposed it's possible, but IIRC, it's like regular tubes or bulbs where they get used up over time. I think it's well worth looking at the display circuit for some caps that have drifted or dried out and I would scope the power supply to the display itself just to see what it's getting

Won’t buy any of this companies products as they are all made in China….

I would have to agree with you there harleyglide100, I believe the rear reflector is mandatory under the Australian Design Rules as are the side reflectors on the front forks.

Any need to replace all those little electrolytics on a device of this age?

Iam Own a KA 907 at the beginning of the 80 ths. Its really heavy and i import that direktly from Hong Kong. A great Peas of amplier from the 80 ths. Great Job to bring it back to life.

I had the PM645, and at that time Wall to Wall Sound and Video were selling these. I couldn't afford it. I almost got one whe. They were going out of business. They tried to seal it and tell me it was new. When opened the the box in the store it was scratched and dusty. I went home sad.

sl1200 motor unit

Do you happen to have belt dimensions on this unit? Got a simuliar vrds-7 based unit thats missing a belt. Thanks

I had a Pioneer 430-SX i have been looking for since late 80's. My wife through out when in stopped working. My good friend hand a Sansui quadriphonic receiver in mid 1970's, R.I.P. Glenn Hughley.

I have one of these monsters. Got it non functional due to outputs being fried on one amp module. Service manuals are nonexistent in language other than Japanese lol. I did get it functional with a complete rebuild of the 2 amp modules but had to use modern replacements for the nonfunctional output transistors. Great sounding amp and VERY heavy.

I'm surprised you didn't do some infrared viewing of the fuse holders to see how the current is passing through.

Hi ! Thank for the review. One question : can you still put the paniers ? Indicators will fits ?

you missed the whole point of this by not showing the replacement of the belts

What a wank of a company

hi, great channel 👍 i have a frozen marantz ud player. it will not turn on (red led blinking). power supply is ok. please help...

Do you know someone in the United States that could do this repair for me?

It is worth mentioning the speaker protection circuit with timed power on and instant off, and the output stage's short circuit protection (all around the relay). Indeed, the components are of high quality and I have never had to change any since the late 80's, but the RCA connectors. Still, I had to touch up some cold weld points, which is common with large PCBs.

I have exactly the same bike (except the Arrow Exhaust). One of the best motorcycles I've ever ridden. So agile, so easy to handle and so much fun to ride.

I came here after the draw didn't open on mine. I gave it to an old friend to fix as this is his realm so it should be back up and running in a week. I would love to know why you like the accuphase more ? I have this running through a Lampizator Golden gate mk2 and I think its a perfect match with the valves. Great Video buddy, keep the CD love alive.

You did such a thorough and professional job looking into every nook and cranny. Did you bankrupt the owner? I am paying, in the UK, 45 pounds an hour. Can you share whether your rate is comparable?

Evotech charge a fortune for this and I'm going to have to disagree. I have used quite a bit of their stuff over the years . . . nicely made but rarely fits properly. Let's face it, it wouldn't cost any more to manufacture parts which fit as opposed to parts that dont and leave a gap between the seat and the light unit and then . . . there's the screws that are too long. I mean jeez . . they are charging a bomb and they just can't get it right. Very irritating if you've parted with the dosh. The last two accessories I had, I sent back for a refund - at least they got that right. I ordered their rad guard which only fits if you have the stainless radiator guards as on your bike . . if the bike has the black plastic radiator cowls, the guard doesn't fit. They have been told countless times and yet they still sell the radiator guard as suitable for all versions of the R1250r . . . . It isn't!!!

do you know where i can fix the speed not stable problem, any parts suggestion