Sean Regan
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I've bought another vintage tuner/amp.
It's the same model as the one I bought before the last one. I was a bit disappointed with that, although I did get a 50% refund from the seller on eBay. The stereo light wouldn't come on with the radio and the balance control wasn't working. It just spun, the previous owner must have accidentally stripped the threads.
But apart from that, after I'd cleaned all the sockets it worked well. But I like things to be "right."
This one is working as it should. The stereo light is lit, as it's on an FM station and both meters are working (tuning gang centred and signal strength indicated, although we get crap reception in the Manchester area with an indoor aerial).
I've now five vintage tuner/amps. But can only accommodate two working, as I've at the moment only two sets of speakers, for this and this NAD 2020 in my "office" upstairs.
The other Leak 3400, I'm going to keep as a spare. (I've already got one "spare," this Rotel RX152).
The one I've had for over 15 years, this Leak 2000, I'm going to put on eBay. But not just yet, as there's a few on at the moment, as it's a popular model, they usually sell well. I expect to get back half what I paid for the latest one, not that it's important.
I may put the Rotel, down in the tea-house, but I'll need to get a pair of speakers, they're cheap enough on eBay.
I've just given my two jukebox wall boxes a service. Just a drop of oil in the right places and I gave the selector buttons a spray of switch cleaner.
The coin mechanism detects and rejects the "wrong" coins, so that needs some occasional lubrication.
I've not used it for a while, but one of my iPod Nano's that stores the selections for the three title card magazines I have, has packed up. They are about 20 years old.
So I had to programme a spare one last night. It's a right pain, as you have to create an iTunes playlist of 160 selections and you have to get them in the right order, or you'll get a wrong track when you make a choice.
I do keep the playlists on file, but iTunes can't always find some tracks when you're syncing the iPod, so you have to go looking for them.
I've just bought another spare iPod on eBay. They are a lot more expensive now than they were a few years ago. But there you go.
It's the same model as the one I bought before the last one. I was a bit disappointed with that, although I did get a 50% refund from the seller on eBay. The stereo light wouldn't come on with the radio and the balance control wasn't working. It just spun, the previous owner must have accidentally stripped the threads.
But apart from that, after I'd cleaned all the sockets it worked well. But I like things to be "right."
This one is working as it should. The stereo light is lit, as it's on an FM station and both meters are working (tuning gang centred and signal strength indicated, although we get crap reception in the Manchester area with an indoor aerial).
I've now five vintage tuner/amps. But can only accommodate two working, as I've at the moment only two sets of speakers, for this and this NAD 2020 in my "office" upstairs.
The other Leak 3400, I'm going to keep as a spare. (I've already got one "spare," this Rotel RX152).
The one I've had for over 15 years, this Leak 2000, I'm going to put on eBay. But not just yet, as there's a few on at the moment, as it's a popular model, they usually sell well. I expect to get back half what I paid for the latest one, not that it's important.
I may put the Rotel, down in the tea-house, but I'll need to get a pair of speakers, they're cheap enough on eBay.
I've just given my two jukebox wall boxes a service. Just a drop of oil in the right places and I gave the selector buttons a spray of switch cleaner.
The coin mechanism detects and rejects the "wrong" coins, so that needs some occasional lubrication.
I've not used it for a while, but one of my iPod Nano's that stores the selections for the three title card magazines I have, has packed up. They are about 20 years old.
So I had to programme a spare one last night. It's a right pain, as you have to create an iTunes playlist of 160 selections and you have to get them in the right order, or you'll get a wrong track when you make a choice.
I do keep the playlists on file, but iTunes can't always find some tracks when you're syncing the iPod, so you have to go looking for them.
I've just bought another spare iPod on eBay. They are a lot more expensive now than they were a few years ago. But there you go.
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