Blue Shadow
Waiting for Vintage Gear from this century
I picked up a TOTL RX-103 Luxman Servo-Face receiver with remote today and started the usual dive into it to fix the suckface. I got the motor unit out and am putting the unit back together so I can set the adjustments while I wait for/find a belt.
Putting this chunk of plastic fantastic back together...it is not like nice vintage silver or champagne. Lots of little plastic buttons needing to find their way through the faceplate, lots of other buttons to pull to clean. Too many little circuit boards screwed down all over the place. This one is not completely full but there is not much room left.
I know the move to a flat faceplate without knobs was in the 83 time frame and I don't like the smooth look of push pads to make adjustments but this one has a few knobs and Luxman hid them with the suckface. Whatever, it is a Luxman designed just before Alpine took over and marketed under their reign so it should be a sweet unit.
Interesting that this top unit built at the end of the power wars was a 90 wpc unit and if one wanted more power they needed to step to the integrated amp.
It was nice reading over the spec sheet in anticipation of picking up the unit today. Just like the old days.
Putting this chunk of plastic fantastic back together...it is not like nice vintage silver or champagne. Lots of little plastic buttons needing to find their way through the faceplate, lots of other buttons to pull to clean. Too many little circuit boards screwed down all over the place. This one is not completely full but there is not much room left.
I know the move to a flat faceplate without knobs was in the 83 time frame and I don't like the smooth look of push pads to make adjustments but this one has a few knobs and Luxman hid them with the suckface. Whatever, it is a Luxman designed just before Alpine took over and marketed under their reign so it should be a sweet unit.
Interesting that this top unit built at the end of the power wars was a 90 wpc unit and if one wanted more power they needed to step to the integrated amp.
It was nice reading over the spec sheet in anticipation of picking up the unit today. Just like the old days.
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