Oh, I thought you were going to attempt servicing it yourself. If you got a guy who can do it, awesome.
It’s interesting reading about the hobby of repairing vintage audio. I have a good friend that is doing this now, and he’s gone in quickly and deeply. I got him started on his audio journey years ago, but he’s enjoying the repairing as much as the music.
If you understand this, you know why I am a watchmaker...at some point owning the watches just wasn’t enough to keep my interest, so that’s why I do what I do...
HiFi also has the added bonus of building everything yourself and tweaking it to your taste. Very educational and fun. Before kids my whole system was self built. Except/ cd player, Tonearm and cartridge.
We had a meeting in our Bronx apartment where everyone was bringing home built speaker and amps. Below is a pic of PHP drivers in an open baffle which just overwhelmed our little living room with 2.5W. Fun times.
I suppose you can get started with a good multimeter, solder iron and solder vacuum. Watching the u tube videos, then it’s a systematic process of swapping bits. The diagnostic part seems tricky.
It’s interesting reading about the hobby of repairing vintage audio. I have a good friend that is doing this now, and he’s gone in quickly and deeply. I got him started on his audio journey years ago, but he’s enjoying the repairing as much as the music.
If you understand this, you know why I am a watchmaker...at some point owning the watches just wasn’t enough to keep my interest, so that’s why I do what I do...
Even after I got my new job I continued doing it as a side gig for fun. But after a couple years I found myself getting frustrated with the customers. Some had really unrealistic expectations (I understand you bought this turntable for $25, but it needed $80 of NLA parts I had to buy on eBay, $60 for a new cartridge and $120 for my labor), some just didn’t want to pay for the work despite approving it before hand, and some that would get offended when I would tell them that it simply was not worth the time and expense to repair (you have to break a Crosley plastic turntable apart to get into it- it’s glued together).
Doesn't sound a lot different from watchmaking. 😉
The guy I’m using to repair my gear goes over the job in person and you walk away with an estimate that you sign. It’s a fun/educational process. Then you pay on line before you pick up. Then you listen to the gear in the shop, and sign again before you leave. Very little opportunity to whinge is afforded and no surprises. Most of the customers, like watch collectors (some I’ve met also are watch guys and so is the owner of the shop) seem to understand they are bringing finicky old gear to him and understand the underlying economics are irrelevant. He has mostly five star yelps, and yet there are those who go through all this and still whine.
I'm still quite happy with my Oppo 103d (circa 2013) DVD player, but my 'home theater' consists of simple connections to my two-channel system.
I provide this photo of the rear panel to illustrate the yawning – and amusing – gap in connectivity, relative to the Yamaha above! 😁
Always amuses me why AV receivers have so much crap on the back but I guess they need to be compatible to every ones odd ball systems
Just bought this tonight at auction from an estate sale as new.
A Yamaha Aventage RX-A3040 which was the top of the Yamaha line a couple of years back and whilst models have moved on they haven't made a significant difference to the specs only adding Bluetooth and 6K plus native 11.2, essentially still the same out of this world beast and I have no need ( does any one ) of 6K and the 11.2 it does, but you just need a separate amp to enable it on this one.
Needed to upgrade the TV, Computer, router, streaming and Set top box and what ever else audio and the current system wasn't even close to cutting it, also has an MM and loads of other Aux inputs too all with smart phone, computer or tablet apps for control.
I had bought a older but top of the line in 2009 Sony STR-DE495 earlier in the year but it didn't have the inputs I needed so I never connected it in.
The big win for me is that I have the Sony speaker system from the DE495 which will handle the Yamaha quite nicely and at a fraction of the cost of lashing out on premium branded speaker sets.
Still wasn't too cheap but at least now I have options for connection from wifi to digital coax, optical and HDMI all in multiple ports for each, plus of course Dolby Atmos and host of other top end goodies but miles cheaper than the current RX-A8A which is this ones current equivalent at $3500.00
https://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio_visual/av_receivers_amps/rx-a3040/index.html
I have a yamaha A730. I like but did have an issue with a processor chip a while back. That A3040 should be pretty sweet.
