This one dated from the early 70’s and was brought in with a Thorens turntable. The turntable needed a new drive belt and a cartridge, the receiver was a little more demanding. It was only working on one channel, the output transistors were fine, the problem lay in the pre amp. A few minutes with […]

I had this one brought in by a very desperate customer, he loved the amp so much and thought he would never find someone to repair it. The problem was the function selector switch, it was so noisy the amp was unusable. A phone call to Arcam confirmed that the switch was not available as

  I had this brought in for repair by a customer, the list of faults was long, starting with the turntable, the drive belt had snapped, the strobe lamp had failed, the auto return mechanism didn’t work and the cartridge was missing. On the tape deck the lid had a broken hinge, all the belts

Well this thing is older than I am! Made in the 50’s and still working until recently. It came in with no audio and after a few checks I found no output from the rectifier valve. it uses a Mullard EZ41 valve as a full wave rectifier and it looked like that was what has

I’m not sure what I did wrong in a previous life but I seem to get a constant stream of these in for repair. Ok, they’re an interesting item, especially to anyone that likes something a bit retro, and when working properly, they perform very well. I remember working on them when they were new