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Annoying Newbie Question...again.
lbryant5879
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02-10-2019, 06:49 PM
Alright...everyone here has been super helpful with me and extremely patient and gracious.  If I haven't worn out my welcome, I'd like to ask another question.  I have a G1606 with an external speaker (SA-1000).  When I bought the pair, the SA-1000 only gave off a high-pitched hum.  Everyone here said "replace the caps".  I did.  Then it only gave a quite hiss from the speaker.  I tested all the resistors and found a few caps in reverse.  I corrected any problems I came across.  Now, I get sound (yes, actual music) from the speaker.  I only get sound from the electrostatic speaker; clear but weak.  Nothing from the cone speaker.  I've tested both against a different record player with the same outcome: weak signal from electrostatic/nothing from the cone.  

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02-10-2019, 08:28 PM
Check resistances of spkr voice coil (low a few ohms), T-1 secondary (a few ohms) and primary (several hundred ohms).
When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
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