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This is a very good quality CD player produced between 1993 and 1995, it’s a very well put together item and weighs more than you might expect due to the heavy gauge of metal used for the chassis and casing. It came to me because it wouldn’t read a disc, this was due to low […]

Next up, an old Sanyo radio cassette in need of a refurb, all was going well until I found a tooth missing on one of the idler gears, unfortunately not available as a spare part any more so if I want to keep this old thing going I’m going to have to replace the missing

I’ve had this linear drive turntable sitting in the corner of my workshop for several years, it was given to me with a few other items by a customer who no longer wanted it. So eventually I got round to looking at it, first thing I noticed was the original transit material was still attached

Bit of a mess this one, one of the output capacitors had leaked all over, and soaked into, the pcb. Not simply a job of cleaning up the electrolyte and hoping it will be ok because it’s a conductive material and that would be a disaster. First of all I wasn’t sure I could repair

A very good quality amp and in very good condition, everything worked well as long as the function selector was held in a certain position. Easy enough to diagnose a dirty switch but not that easy to get to for removal. Probably an hour of stripping down and unsoldering and I had the switch on

This tape deck was delivered to me complete with a set of belts, it seemed the owner had tried himself and found it too difficult to do, normally I would turn something away that had been tampered with but I didn’t want to see something so nice end up in the bin, so I took

Not something I normally do but as it was for a mate I thought I’d do it anyway. He had a lot of scratchy controls and the output of the clean channel was fluctuating quite badly. My initial hopes of this being caused by the noisy controls were dashed when the problem persisted after all

I have another VZ-3000 in for repair, looks like this one has had a repair attempt sometime in the past as most of the screws holding the vertical turntable in place were either loose or not even in the threads. The turntable belt looked like it had been replaced but the door / tone arm

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