Tuner out of alignment or what??
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Hi guys! Just got my stereo tuner and it seems to me that is out of alignment. I am not getting too many stations tuned but one I got was supposed to be 89.5 but the tuner reads out 78.5 I guess. There is a huge difference on the numbers. Is it possible?
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I remember back in the 50's and 60's if you had said this, I would have said, "It must of been made in Japan."
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i would have said the string that moves the needle is slipping on the pulley. simple to adjust...
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Ichigo,
How "vintage" is your Marantz tuner? Is it an analog model, with manual tuning? Is it vacuum-tube or solid-state? And if solid-state, does it have a digital readout with pre-sets?
If it has a manual tuner with a horizontal tuning dial and manual pointer, then J. Bellemare is correct. The pulley may be slipping and the pointer has become dislodged.
If it's a vacuum-tube model, then tubes drift all the time and deteriorate, and it wouldn't be worth having it realigned unless you simply like the idea of a retro analog tuner.
In theory, digital tuners should not go out of alignment, although I owned one in the early 1980s that did malfunction.
One other factor: the FM band in Japan is different than in North America, but such a degree of error that you cite would not occur.
Regards, Alan
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Quote: "In theory, digital tuners should not go out of alignment, although I owned one in the early 1980s that did malfunction."
i used to have a very good tuner: Technics ST-G7, and it happened one time i phoned the CBC to tell them their FM transmitter was slowly slipping off frequency. they asked "how do you know that?" i said: my tuner is a Technics STG7. they said: ah, ok.
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Ha, ha. Doesn't surprise me. I remember the Technics ST-G7. Many of the Technics products were first-rate (not their loudspeakers) and I owned several myself over the years.
It's too bad that the parent company (Matsushita, now Panasonic) discontinued the Technics line.
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That was a good story! I agree, Ken--awesome.
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