Hi, everyone. New poster here with a 500B question.
This 500B was given to me by a very good friend. I recently had it gone over by a professional shop. All the original Fisher tubes tested fine and the unit was recapped, etc. About a week after I got it home, the volume pot decided to croak which I replaced with a new one from Mark Oppat. (EXCELLENT to do business with BTW). While I was waiting for that, I completed the rebuild on a Garrard Type A with a Stanton 500 cartridge I plan to use as the record changer with the Fisher. May as well keep it vintage.
Here is the issue: the radio is SO loud, there is no way for the phono input to be adjusted to match the radio. On "1", the radio is loud enough for me, however, switching to any other function, it has to be turned to "1.5" or "2". I also tried an amplified turntable on the AUX ports with the non-amplified Garrard through the PHONO ports and played 2 copies of the same record simultaneously, switching from AUX to PHONO. Both sounded fairly equal. Passing through the radio stage, I tought the speakers were going to jump off the floor.
Is this normal? Any idea what it could be?
Thanks for any help!
This 500B was given to me by a very good friend. I recently had it gone over by a professional shop. All the original Fisher tubes tested fine and the unit was recapped, etc. About a week after I got it home, the volume pot decided to croak which I replaced with a new one from Mark Oppat. (EXCELLENT to do business with BTW). While I was waiting for that, I completed the rebuild on a Garrard Type A with a Stanton 500 cartridge I plan to use as the record changer with the Fisher. May as well keep it vintage.
Here is the issue: the radio is SO loud, there is no way for the phono input to be adjusted to match the radio. On "1", the radio is loud enough for me, however, switching to any other function, it has to be turned to "1.5" or "2". I also tried an amplified turntable on the AUX ports with the non-amplified Garrard through the PHONO ports and played 2 copies of the same record simultaneously, switching from AUX to PHONO. Both sounded fairly equal. Passing through the radio stage, I tought the speakers were going to jump off the floor.
Is this normal? Any idea what it could be?
Thanks for any help!