04-29-2014, 02:45 PM
Rhino
It is amplified otherwise you would not hear anything at all. Not enough amplification, this is it. Otherwise the sound you'd hear would be from the needle and nothing from the speaker.
Start from checking Volume reg 28, cap 32, cap 61and the switch - radio-phono.
Last tube before the 42, the 44.
Have you done the full recap? What else?
As for the pickup, it being electromagnetic and not piezo, I do not know ho often those go bad.
There are articles on how to check them, I never did that.
But before I blame the pickup, I would check the surroundings.
It is amplified otherwise you would not hear anything at all. Not enough amplification, this is it. Otherwise the sound you'd hear would be from the needle and nothing from the speaker.
Start from checking Volume reg 28, cap 32, cap 61and the switch - radio-phono.
Last tube before the 42, the 44.
Have you done the full recap? What else?
As for the pickup, it being electromagnetic and not piezo, I do not know ho often those go bad.
There are articles on how to check them, I never did that.
But before I blame the pickup, I would check the surroundings.
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