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Appreciation post: A client's old radio taught me a lesson about parts
I was fixing a 1970s Zenith for a guy and he said 'the magic is in the original caps, even if they're bad'. He meant that replacing everything with new parts can lose the sound that made it special. How do you decide what to keep original versus replace for good?
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charlie1985d ago
Yeah, that "soul" is just the sound of old parts drifting together over time.
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victor6515d ago
Man, that hits home. I once replaced every single cap in a beautiful old Marantz because I was young and dumb, and it came out sounding like a cheap Bluetooth speaker. The client was not happy. Now I test each part and only swap what's truly dead or way out of spec. That old Zenith guy is right, sometimes the flaws are part of the character.
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