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Bose® Wave Radio AWR1-1W Repair

Posted on January 18, 2017 by

From the Rain City Audio Repair Blog: A Bose® Wave Radio, model AWR1-1W, just came through the shop for a repair. The radio had been working okay all these years but had recently stopped receiving any stations and instead was … Continue reading →

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1930 Crosley Arbiter Radio Repair

Posted on October 12, 2016 by

From the Rain City Audio Repair Blog: This 1930 Crosley radio came through the shop for a repair recently. The owner dropped off the chassis and turntable, then took the cabinet for professional refinishing. At some point in this radio’s … Continue reading →

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Bose® 901 Series VI #181070 Repair

Posted on August 12, 2016 by

From Rain City Audio: This Bose® 901 Active Equalizer, Series VI, came into the shop recently. These are some of the most recently produced Active Equalizers, although they’re still potentially a few decades old at this point in time. This … Continue reading →

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1951 EMC 211 Service Tube Tester Refurbish

Posted on July 30, 2016 by

From Rain City Audio: I don’t often work on test equipment, but sometimes I take a tube tester or similar for service. This one in particular is a 1951 EMC Model 211 tube tester, a quick and simple emissions tester … Continue reading →

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1967 Sony TFM-116L Transistor Radio Repair

Posted on July 14, 2016 by

From Rain City Audio: This cute little Sony 11-transistor portable AM/FM radio, the TFM-116L, recently came through the shop. It’s owner purchased it new back in 1967 while he was stationed overseas with the armed forces, and had been listening … Continue reading →

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Bose® 901 Series I Active Equalizer #9724 Overhaul and Upgrade

Posted on April 26, 2016 by

From Rain City Audio: This rare early-production Bose® 901 Active Equalizer, serial #9724, came through the shop recently for an overhaul. It’s owner reported that both channels would cut out intermittently, the switches were noisy, and the power lamp was … Continue reading →

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1946 Setchell-Carlson 416 “Frog Eyes” Radio Repair

Posted on March 19, 2016 by

This little post-WW2 AM Broadcast receiver made a trip from the central Skagit Valley down to Seattle’s Rain City Audio for service. The owner had one of these decades ago and recently picked up another, and wanted it to be … Continue reading →

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Magnavox 1ST611R Tube Console Stereo Overhaul

Posted on March 8, 2016 by

From Rain City Audio: A customer recently brought me the guts from his Magnavox 1ST611R mid-century stereo console for an overhaul. He’d had the console for a while, working but with some trouble, but wanted to finally get it back … Continue reading →

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Bose® 901 Series II Active Equalizer #64364 Overhaul

Posted on February 27, 2016 by

This Series II Bose® Active Equalizer came through the shop. It had suffered age-related failures in its electrolytic capacitors, and the resistors had drifted with age and moisture to produce the wrong curves. Fortunately, it’s nothing some maintenance can’t solve! … Continue reading →

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Bose® 901 Series I Active Equalizer #6878 Repair

Posted on February 20, 2016 by

This early-production Bose® 901 Active Equalizer came through the shop recently for a repair. These Early models were the very first production run, back in 1968, and have a pretty significantly different circuit design from the later models, and feature … Continue reading →

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