Nother Yamaha
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Well, if it gets here in the same shape as the Ebay photos. It looked pretty damn clean. Amplifier powers up, protect relays set. Just no sound . I repaired and MX-1 about a month or two ago. Blown output transistor and 3-4 loose transistors (cold solder) on the rear input/voltage amplifier board. Maybe I'll get lucky with this one and be something very easy. Excellent sounding amplifier when its 100% functional.
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I was GIVEN an M-80 with a bad channel and a C-60 to sell and help my cash situation, which I did.
The one channel was pretty awesome as it was and the C-60 had lots of problems. I think that series of preamps STUNK...it was because Yamaha had so many ICs that were proprietary or something and as a result people cannibalize them for parts more. But I like my CA-1000 (when it works) and I still have the tuner Larry sent, TX-480? and as I understand it Yamaha probably built my favorite 80s digital tuner for Pioneer (TX-950) but it also suffers from a poor design choice with these L shaped tabs that press down on the switches on the PCB BUT they want to break off at the front panel. A conventional panel with a switch board built in would have made my day...otherwise it's an excellent tuner.
The PCB is white with green printing and resembles a Yamaha job.
I'm almost sure that the Communication series cassette decks are Hitachi jobs...2 daughterboards from the main PCB and EVERY IC in the deck is HITACHI. Given the messed up tape drive that only rewinds regardless of the buttons pushed and the control board on the back of it, my first deck (a Sanyo) had one PCB, Metal capability, AMSS and Dolby with analog meters and the only faults I had with it were replacing the head once and tricky solenoids now and then...still used it more than 20 years.
The one channel was pretty awesome as it was and the C-60 had lots of problems. I think that series of preamps STUNK...it was because Yamaha had so many ICs that were proprietary or something and as a result people cannibalize them for parts more. But I like my CA-1000 (when it works) and I still have the tuner Larry sent, TX-480? and as I understand it Yamaha probably built my favorite 80s digital tuner for Pioneer (TX-950) but it also suffers from a poor design choice with these L shaped tabs that press down on the switches on the PCB BUT they want to break off at the front panel. A conventional panel with a switch board built in would have made my day...otherwise it's an excellent tuner.
The PCB is white with green printing and resembles a Yamaha job.
I'm almost sure that the Communication series cassette decks are Hitachi jobs...2 daughterboards from the main PCB and EVERY IC in the deck is HITACHI. Given the messed up tape drive that only rewinds regardless of the buttons pushed and the control board on the back of it, my first deck (a Sanyo) had one PCB, Metal capability, AMSS and Dolby with analog meters and the only faults I had with it were replacing the head once and tricky solenoids now and then...still used it more than 20 years.
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