I wish I still had my 650. Sounds a lot better than today's garbage

Another awesome video. We had the smaller brother, the Pioneer SX-450. I had to replace one fuse, due to a lighting storm 20+ years ago. Though the speaker terminals can give trouble. Though I am quite surprised that the SX lineup of receivers were not made in Japan, but in Korea.

Here in the USA, we still have many AM stations.

that stereo receiver is the bomb! well done, Dave!🙂

I knew someone who had an sx 450 with Realistic Mach one speakers it sounded good. I had an sx 440 & i own a sx1280 & 1980. I don't think I've ever heard a bad sounding 70's Pioneer they all seemed to be made very well.

Pioneer sometimes used those bulbs or the wedge bulbs; my SX-550 had those bulbs. I believe they are spec'd at 8V 300mA.

I'm in Central Wis and I can only get 3 AM stations during the Day.. You have whole lot more that I have LOl Thanks Dave.... Mike M.

The issue to look out for is the speaker/ power switch. They fail a lot with no replacement.

Spare bulbs of the correct rating are getting hard to find. I often have to do some mods to make what is available work, LED's tend to look too bright and prone to only illuminating a small area. These receivers still sound far better and more pleasant to listen to for long periods compared to todays in your face models.

Another old classic.

I believe in Finland we call that glue quick glue

I still have my GenEXXA STA 900 tuner amp I got in 93 and it still sounds great and works perfectly and very loud, great job again Dave 👍👍👍👍👍

Yeah, the AM band in the US is pretty much sports/news/talk (how many sports talk stations does a given market need anyway, LOL).

Hi 👋 Dave, One of these days could you show us how to repair a Broken dial Chord. Would appreciate the Tutoral. MJ. in B'dos.

That's a nice unit. Can't beat a tuning wheel with a weight for momentum on the back.

Very good Dave!!!👍👍👍

I wonder if auto (vehicle) bulbs would work? Would DC vs AC make the bulb light fluctuate? Might be cool lol

Are you using a Noiman or Neumann mic? Cos it ignored the fan noise almost completely. I'm hearing Studio Quality audio in this vid. I do use an old school analog Compressor /Expander here. I'm fairly certain its Not just the Pioneer.

I was picking up a Chinese speaking station at night in Astoria Oregon... now I know where it was from

Why would he take off the cover? Did he poke around with a stick? I got a Toshiba SA-725 looks like that. 30 bucks because the knob glue like you. Nice easy one for you! Good work.

Great job, what brand of cleaner do you use on the switches?

I have the same model but it distorts in both channels when the volume is increased just a bit above min setting. Possible both outputs bad or a bad supply? I checked supplies and they appear to be ok.

hey have you ever worked on a CCD-TRV57 sony camcorder i found my dads and when i put it in camera mode the screen is only black and i cant find a video of the exact model

Shouldn’t have a watch on when working with electricity bro. No bueno.

nice that would be a cheap fix won't it ?

Silver oxyde is conductive, is not it ?

I have a sony HMP 70 cleaned a couple of times still sounds great..it must weigh 45 Lbs..lol..

Hi! what about replacing bulbs with leds?