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In Reply to: RE: Mike is excellent - I can't think of anyone else good who's currently taking business posted by openmind on December 22, 2014 at 08:57:23
I had seen the Mark Wilson reference on TIC, but thought that he probably wasn't who I was looking for since it specifically states, "but not mods". I may give him a call anyway, since all I'm really looking for is replacement of caps and op-amps. He may be willing to tackle it if all I'm looking for is upgraded parts.
Thanks to both of you. I've been listening to the Kenwood for two days now, and frankly I'm not sure how much improvement I can reasonably expect by modding it. I had already been very much impressed, but my bride (who wears hearing aids) suggested that the difference between the KT-8300 and the Yamaha T2x I had been using was "like the difference between two and three dimensions". That's a pretty strong statement.
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Mark is highly recommended by me as well. He had gone through a MR74 and a Sony ST-J75. The Sony was in dire need especially repair of a noisy transformer which was re-potted. There were components added to the board by others that made no logical sense. Mark cleaned that tuner up and restored it. There are often updates to a particular unit and Mark makes sure he is aware of what should be done. This is the case with MR 74 tuner and others I imagine.
Just to clarify, do you and the Mrs. both prefer the Kenwood to the Yamaha? The T2 is supposed to be pretty good. One person who has expertise in Kenwood mods but is not local to you is Bill Ammons:
http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/index.html#IF
He's in Phoenix. My experience has been that if you have a station with IBOC noise caused by HD Radio, narrower bandwidth can help a lot. See
https://sites.google.com/site/mpbarney/kenwoodkt-8300 for additional info. Good luck and keep us posted on your experiences!
Frankly, it's really no contest, and I too had thought the Yamaha to be a pretty decent tuner. Initially, I was a little disappointed by the additional hiss I heard from the Kenwood, but that was only until I discovered the IF band selector switch. As you've noted, once I switched to narrow band most of the hiss disappeared, and all that was left was music.
I don't think Bill is still doing tuner mods, but it would certainly be worth checking into.
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