by Rob-NYC »
Wed May 22, 2013 8:46 am
Ken, using these schematics:
arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Jukebox/Rockola/Schematics/461-70.pdf
arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Jukebox/Rockola/Schematics/461-70a.pdf
Is the cart wired in-phase? These use a Shure magnetic cart. Is that what is in there, and does an ohmmeter test on it reveal roughly the same impedance on each channel?
Does the bass control have any effect?
R-O places all the loudness contour at the volume pot. Have those components been checked? Years back a friend sold me a Seeb Q amp that he could not get the channels to balance. One channel sounded louder-thinner. The caps in the bass section of the volume control had dried out and not been changed.
What is the physical condition of the woofers? I had a older R-o where someone had glued the edges of the woofers and made them so stiff they had little bass.
Try an external speaker of known tone quality and see how that sounds.
Rob/NYC
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