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Old July 9th 08, 09:22 PM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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Default Toshiba sa-500 receiver

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:34:35 -0700 (PDT), carfreak
wrote:

I was recommended to go here by rusty . I am new to vintage audio,
and recently got a toshiba sa-500. It has a pretty bad balance
issue. I have to turn the knob to 3 on the right for it to be
balanced. Any solutions? snip


First, swap the speaker leads and see if the trouble follows the
speaker. You may have a loudspeaker issue, not an electrical issue.
If the trouble doesn't follow the speaker, you could have a number of
different problems, a likely one being a toasted output transistor,
which would make the channel in question about 6 dB less loud than the
good one. You don't say if the affected channel has a distortion
problem or not, which could alos be an indicator.

These weren't very good units, so don't go spending a lot of money
fixing it. Toshiba's audio products were, around that time, discount
store stuff at best. Their cassette decks were some of the worst I've
ever seen at any price.
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