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In Reply to: Any thoughts on this 60's solid state Pioneer SX-700T? posted by blownrx7 on January 15, 2016 at 06:21:10:
Back when those products were new, the manufacturers' trumpeted "pure, clear transistor sound" and went out of their way to say that the new, big thing DIDN'T sound like tubes!
No, they don't.
Assuming (???) it's a capacitor-coupled amplifier (i.e., there are large-value output capacitors to remove DC from the speaker outputs), it WILL benefit greatly from new output capacitors. Indeed, it would likely benefit from the replacement of many of its capacitors (especially electrolytics) -- is it worth the effort and/or expense? Not really, but it could be a labor of love for someone.
It's worth $60 if it is in good cosmetic & working order, I'd opine (if barely). Check to be sure that the transistors are all silicon -- the earlier germanium transistors may (???) have sounded a little better, but they're very fragile and unreplaceable at this late date.
As a postscript, the tuner section may be pretty good. I don't know much about this model (I do have a fairly similar Pioneer SX-1500T, FWIW, see below), but some of the earliest ss receivers from Pioneer and others, due to the lack of good "high frequency" transistors, used hybrid tuner front ends, with Nuvistor tubes. Whether hybrid or not, I've generally found many of the early ss receivers to have better-than-average tuner sections -- if that matters at all to you.
all the best,
mrh
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Follow Ups
- don't expect it to sound "tube like" :-P - mhardy6647 07:30:29 01/15/16 (3)
- RE: don't expect it to sound "tube like" :-P - airtime 15:25:23 01/15/16 (1)
- RE: don't expect it to sound "tube like" :-P - FRG7SWL 10:31:55 01/16/16 (0)
- service manual (with much product info) @ hifiengine - mhardy6647 07:43:16 01/15/16 (0)
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