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Marantz 2215B Receiver

admin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:15:25 +0000

Marantz 2215B Receiver (1973-1977, MSRP 250 USD)

The Marantz 2215B has a relatively modest 15 watts per channel, and certainly isn't as big and powerful as some of it's bigger, but similiar, Marantz receiver brethren, but it still has that wonderful Marantz sound. The five main control knobs have a wonderful sense of symmetry on the classic brushed silver Marantz faceplate. Also present is the classic Marantz blue dial.

The 2215B can be paired with a WC-116 or WC-15T wood cabinet.

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Marantz 2230 - 30 Watt - Good Condition - Upgrades Needed
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Marantz 2215B AM/FM Stereo Receiver in Original Box
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Vintage Marantz 2215 Stereo Receiver
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MARANTZ 2215 STEREO RECEIVER WITH CABINET - SOUNDS GREAT!
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Marantz 2215B AM/FM Stereo Receiver in Original Box
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Vintage Marantz 2215 Stereo Receiver
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Hitachi SR-303 Receiver

admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:21:05 +0000

Hitachi SR-303 Receiver (1977)

Sure, it's not as powerful as its bigger brothers like the Hitachi SR-503, SR-703 and definitely not the mighty Hitachi SR-2004. This little Hitachi SR-303 does firmly fall into the cute and sound sweet category though. It's not a bad little looker either.

The clean lines are helped with a thick aluminum faceplate, real aluminum knobs and a weighty-ness usually reserved for higher end machines. The tuner dial's white background makes it easy to read, and adds to the simple look as well.

At about 20 watts per channel, this receiver won't blow you out of your house, especially not if you're driving some in-efficient speakers. But, if you're looking for a good receiver for your apartment, office, or bedroom, this is a great choice. It has all the inputs you'll need - Aux, Phono, Tape and push button selectors for 2 sets of speakers.

Vintage Clean Hitachi SR-504 AM/FM Receiver Nice
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Vintage Hitachi SR 2001 Receiver And Speakers
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HITACHI Solid State Stereo Receiver SR-5200 Vintage and Rare!!!! In Good Shape!!
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Pioneer SX-5590 Receiver Restoration

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All Photo Credits Skibjr on eBay

The SX-5590 is very similar to the Pioneer SX-1250, but it's different in one very obvious way - it's black face vs. the silver face of the SX-1250 and most other Pioneer receivers from the 1970's. The SX-5590 was manufactured for 8 months in 1976, and less than 2,500 of these "special edition" receivers were built during this period. Furthermore, they were available only to U.S. military personnel stationed overseas through European post exchanges (a.k.a. "PX's").

In this post, we feature an another amazing, all out restoration of this wonderful receiver by eBay member Skibjr. (Check out his restoration of a Pioneer SX-1280 here). Skibjr sells on eBay. Check out his latest listings here.

All restoration text and photo credits to Skibjr on eBay

"Here's a shot of the regulated power supply board before reconditioning. If the SX-1250/5590 can be said to have any design weakness at all, it would be this board. It's mounted vertically in the receiver, and therefore has a difficult time properly shedding heat. Heat kills electronic components, and those on this board are usually the first to go."

37 years can really build up some serious oxidation on silver-coated copper connecting pins, and Pioneer used dozens of them for the plug-in circuit boards on this receiver. Since dirty, oxidized connecting pins are at the root of many maladies plaguing old vintage receivers, a through cleaning of each and every one is in order.

This is the foil side of the unrestored regulated power supply board, illustrating the disastrous effect of high heat on solder joints. Each yellow arrow is pointing to a potentially compromised solder joint, identified by a circular "ring crack" surrounding the wire. These little rings, caused by the differing heat expansion coefficients of the wire and the solder, eventually lead to intermittent connections - and ultimately to the failure of the receiver.

The volume control in this receiver is actually a 'stepped attenuator' of sealed design, and therefore must be desoldered and disassembled to be properly cleaned and deoxidized. The control was thoroughly flushed with Caig Deoxit D5 cleaner, blown out with compressed air, and then lubricated with Caig Faderlube F5. As a result, the volume control now operates like new - with absolutely no noise or scratchiness.

Pioneer SX-1280 Full Restoration

admin — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:26:30 +0000

Pioneer SX-1280 Receiver Full Rebuild / Restoration

The SX-1280 was a follow up to the original 'monster' Pioneer SX-1250 receiver. Rated at 185 watts per channel. From 1978. Features, tone controls, on/off two separate bass and treble controls, filters, mic input, two tape in/outputs one aux input and two phono inputs, phono two selector is also the mic selector. Tape duplicator switch, phono selector for the right stylus and the best response, from your needle, Adaptor switch to add a equalizer etc.

In this post, we feature an amazing, all out restoration of this wonderful receiver by eBay member Skibjr. Check out the full restoration by Skibjr on eBay. Check out his latest listings here.

Specs:

Power Output: 185 watts per channel RMS into 8 ohms.
Harmonic Distortion: Less than 0.03%
Intermodulation Distortion: Less than 0.01%

FM Sensitivity: 1.7uV
FM Capture Ratio: 1.00
FM Harmonic Distortion Mono: <0.10%
FM Harmonic Distortion Stereo: <0.15%

Dimensions: 22.00 x 18.25 x 7.50
Weight: 63.25 lbs

pioneer sx-1250, Silver Face, and light colored wood casing.
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Pioneer SX-1980 Nice in Box all Original Vintage Hifi Flagship
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PIONEER SX1050 STEREO RECEIVER
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"A shot of the most trouble-prone board in this receiver - the regulated power supply board. This board runs extremely hot, and over 30-some years, its components literally cook themselves to death. All electrolytic capacitors, diodes, transistors - and the speaker protection relay - were replaced with brand new components."*

"The rebuilt regulator board - ready for at least another 30 years. The electrolytic caps were replaced with components having greater working voltage specs as well as higher temperature tolerance; new transistors having higher current-handling capability were installed. ALL solder joints on the back of this board were reflowed with top-quality Kester silver-bearing solder."*

"The volume control in this receiver is sealed, and therefore must be desoldered and disassembled to be properly cleaned and deoxidized. The control was thoroughly flushed with Caig Deoxit D5 cleaner, blown out with compressed air, and then lubricated with Caig Faderlube F5. As a result, the volume control now operates like new - with absolutely no noise or scratchiness."*

"After replacing all the old electrolytic caps on this board, FM sensitivity was enhanced to such a dramatic extent that additional FM alignment was deemed unnecessary. In fact, this particular receiver has one of the most sensitive and well-aligned tuners I've ever seen."*

One of the old filter capacitors (left) compared with one of the new. The higher capacitance of the new Nippon Chemicons improves power reserves, and helps to more faithfully reproduce source material including heavy transients like hard-hitting rock music, or action movie soundtracks. The Chemicons also handle heat better, and use superior screw terminal connectors.*

"A shot of the LED conversion, in progress. Four of the six function indicator lamps have been replaced; two of the old incandescent bulbs remain on the right. These LEDs provide a nice even diffused light, just like the old bulbs they replaced. However, these replacements last at least ten times longer than the typical incandescent equivalent, which means that if this receiver is still in service 100 years from now (wouldn't surprise me), these replacement LEDs will likely still be going strong!"*

"These are all of the old parts that have been replaced in this restoration."*

*Restoration and text by Skibjr on eBay. Check out his latest listings here.

PIONEER SX-1250 Stereo Receiver~160W Per Channel~Easy Restoration~VG Condition!
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Pioneer SX-1980 Nice in Box all Original Vintage Hifi Flagship
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Pioneer SX-626 Receiver

admin — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 02:03:17 +0000

Pioneer SX-626 Receiver

Manufactured from 1971-1973

Specs:

20 Watts Per Channel RMS (20 Hz to 20 KHz, both channels driven, 1% THD)
Damping Factor @ Load Impedance 40 at 8 ohms
Output Impedance(s) 4 to 16 ohms

Pioneer SX-626 Stereo Receiver
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PIONEER AM/FM STEREO RECEIVER MODEL SX-626
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Vintage Pioneer SX-626 Stereo Receiver/Amplifier (#8.4)
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Pioneer SX-626 Stereo Receiver
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PIONEER AM/FM STEREO RECEIVER MODEL SX-626
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Vintage Pioneer SX-626 Stereo Receiver/Amplifier (#8.4)
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Tandberg TR-2040 Receiver

admin — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:40:54 +0000

Tandberg TR-2040 Receiver

Built in 1975 in the Tandberg Radio Factory, located in Oslo Norway, the Tandberg TR-2040 is a receiver that is a little different from what you might find in similar units from Pioneer, Sansui or Yamaha receivers of the time. For one, this receiver is FM band only, and has a distinctively un-Japanese look to it. The differences are more than skin deep, though.

Unusually, the FM radio has six presets which can be selected through the square push buttons on the right hand side of the receiver. The presets are set by using the small 'tuning' knob under each preset button. A neat touch is that the signal meter moves to the number of your preset when it is selected.

Sound quality is excellent, and this receiver produces a respectable 40watts per channel.

New Price: 4,000.00 NKr. (1975) ~ $700 at 2013 exchange rates.
Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg) 9.6 kg / 21 lb 2.3 oz (21.145 lb)
Dimensions (WHD) 515 x 143 x 320 mm / 20.3 x 5.6 x 12.6 inch

TANDBERG TR 2080 AM / FM STEREO RECEIVER Beautiful ! The Best TR2080
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Tandberg TR 2025 Vintage Stereo Receiver; Excellent Condition
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Tandberg TR 2025 Vintage Stereo Receiver
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TANDBERG TR 2080 AM / FM STEREO RECEIVER Beautiful ! The Best TR2080
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Tandberg TR 2025 Vintage Stereo Receiver; Excellent Condition
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Tandberg TR 2025 Vintage Stereo Receiver
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Setton RS-440 Receiver

admin — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:24:57 +0000

Setton RS-440 Receiver

Pioneer, Marantz, Sansui and Yamaha all rivalled to build and market the best receivers during the 1970's, but there were also lesser known brands that made equipment every bit as good - and sometimes better. This Setton receiver may be one of those. The RS-440 uses a direct coupled, OCR amplifier design, that puts out a very conservatively rated 55 watts per channel.

There are many other nice features as well, such as an IEC power socket on the back, machined metal knobs, and a distinctive rose colored tuner windows. There are indicator lights for heat, clipping, and the protection circuit for the speakers.

This Setton RS-440 is sold! Check ebay listings after the break.

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Marantz Model 2230 Stereo Receiver

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Fisher RS 1060 AM/FM Vintage Monster Stereo Receiver NICE WORKS

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Scarce Vintage Working KENWOOD AM FM Stereo Receiver KR-4600

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Marantz 4230 Stereo 2 + Quadrial 4 Receiver

admin — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:21:36 +0000

Marantz 4230 Stereo 2 + Quadrial 4 Receiver (1973-1978, 499 USD MSRP)

RMS Power Per Channel   12wx4 or 30wx2
Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)   0.5%
Power Bandwidth   40 hz to 20 khz
Intermodulation Distortion (IM)   0.5%

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Kenwood KR-9600 Receiver

admin — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:48:54 +0000

Kenwood KR-9600 Receiver (1978)

Perhaps not as well known as the Pioneer SX-1250 or the Marantz Model 2500 but those in the know recognize this monster Kenwood is firmly in the same league. There's a 3-stage differential amp, Dual Power-Supply (but one transformer only), four large caps, sizeable side heatsinks, relay switching, DC and overcurrent protection for the amp section.

You can own this fine example (with original manual included) for just $450+ shipping. Contact us for more details.

Sansui 771 Receiver

admin — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 05:34:39 +0000

Sansui 771 Receiver (1972-1976)

This wonderful receiver from Sansui features their meticulous attention to detail and a powerful 45 Watts per Channel / 8 ohms amplifier. The front faceplate has been machined from metal, as have the knobs which have split knobs to enable control of each channel separately. This Sansui 771 sounds great, with the characteristic warm 'tube-like' Sansui sound.

This receiver is for sale. Price: $175 Please contact us for details.

Marantz Model 2230 Stereo Receiver
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Fisher RS 1060 AM/FM Vintage Monster Stereo Receiver NICE WORKS
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Scarce Vintage Working KENWOOD AM FM Stereo Receiver KR-4600
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