Thanks for posting this video, we appreciate your time! These were sweet little receivers back in the day; the entry level models were nice for small living rooms, garages/workshops, bedrooms, etc. for the smaller home and apartment living back in the mid-70's. Some folks got wrapped up in the XX watts/power wars for rooms that were way too small. I always liked this line, along with the Sansui G-X000 line...all sweet sounding units that if they were taken care of, just need a little tune-up now for their next life. Happy New Year!
Have a modest Kenwood KR-2090 (16 wpc) receiver. It rocks the shop with pair pioneer CS-R5100-K speakers. Love the vintage equipment. Thanks for this video Dave!
I love this vids...it starts with complete chaos with a heater that needs to be turned off and a good bang on the machine to see if that will make any difference . Awesome. Thank you for the great videos. I learned a lot through these...
Watching ya work on a little pioneer while listening to my 15 watt a channel sansui which in my small home is just right. Yes I have some beasts that are too much daily background tunes. I like those little stereos of the 60-70s ere.
I remember working on a few of these back in the day. Mostly scratchy variables and the caps would sometimes be bad in these where people tried to overdrive them. Yeah we just had property tax hike here also, but nothing like the way it sounds like they are turning the screws on you there. They don't want people to own anything anymore is what it comes down to. You buy a house and they can still come take it from you if they want to. Well they haven't run me out yet but they are trying. Cheers! 🍻 -AC
Great video. I still own my Pioneer SX650. Still working today. Switches need a little work. Curious as to what your using to clean the switches on this unit. Is it a cleaner as well a lubricant. Can you buy it locally or do l have to buy it on line. Any information would greatly appreciated. Thank you for sharing.
I had a Pioneer 626(?) back when I was in the Air Force. In its later years it developed a habit of occasionally semi-blowing (it caused distortion) in one of the speaker fuses. You have to pay a lot of bucks for that chrome look nowadays.
The entry level receivers from this era required efficient speakers, but given a decent pair of speakers they still sounded good. In terms of appearance, i prefered the wood cabinets to the later black or silver all metal look. Tandberg made some excellent ones, replacing the output capacitors would bring them back to life for a few more years. I find them far easier to listen to compared to the harsh sounding overpowered modern receivers. As the saying goes, they don't make them like they used to.🙂
Yep basic but ok for background music, and it's been reliable. I've seen the grey dotted connectors on most old amps go really dull. The pull out staples can play up too, i always check them before blaming the inputs. Only posh units had a gold flashing (but pointless if the cable plugs are not gold flashed).
Happy with myself tonight, I had a problem with the picture on an old lcd Samsung tv, the picture was all polarised and weird, I noticed an ic on the timer control board was getting rather hot, found another ic on a different tcon I had (different number on it but doing the same job.) replaced it and the picture is perfect, cost me absolutely nothing but half an hours work
@@12voltvids yeh that's the one as15 or something like that, seems to be a common failure, iv seen the same problem (same chip but slightly different tcon) on a sony bravia lcd aswell
As far as the property, Sell and move, pocket the change. As far as the Pioneer SX-434, It looks like Pioneer, Kenwood and Soundesign had a late night threesome. I do love Pioneer though, as I have an SM-G205 working, an SX-110 a restoration in progress but works, the phono stage sounds amazing. And of course, the regulars, an SX-1000-TW, SX-1500. The 1000 is a survivor that sounds great and looks almost new.
That only works if I was willing to move to the interrior where realestate is cheap. Since I am not willing to relocate this is not an option. To stay in the area means wherever i buy will be in the same range. Unless i move to the leashold property down on first nation's land which is something many are doing but they are not really that much cheaper and since are not on the city fire protection insurance costs if you can even get it will be much higher. The reason the prices here are in the stratosphere is where i am is the area that everyone wants to be in. The pandemic and everyone working from home has made the problem worse. I am down by the beach and everyone wants beach front property or wants to be within a 5 minute walk to the beach.
The output power is determined by the vcc rails. Using transistors with higher ratings won't do do it either. Doesn't hurt as they will be less likely to fail, but you won't get more power
@@12voltvids yup. Was commenting because alot of people don't seem to know. Got asked more than once if I could increase the power of their amp. I know you know that.
Ouch,55%,that means your selling. Or the Canadian politicians are paying themselves well. I have a Pioneer SX-838 -50 watts per Channel, did an oops on one speaker channel wire, think I took out a final transistor. It has sound but way down ,on one side. They go for aprox $ 600 refurbished on ebay, nice unit. But I'm not selling, will inject a signal & trace my channel issue.
If it's possible, try appealing your tax assessment. My property taxes went up 28 percent. I appealed it with the county and they lowered it by 19 percent.
The problem is I don't want to leave the area. I could cash out and move to interrior or valley. Well lots of homes burned to ground last summer in fire season and lots were flooded this November in the valley in November. If I sell anything will be at least as expensive anywhere I would consider living. I am lucky to have the lot size i have because devilopers are buying 2 side by side or corner lots are subdividing them to 33 foot lots and getting the same money. About the only thing wouls be sell and move to the new devolopments on the reserve but those are lease hold properties. Very expensive here. For millionaires only.
Trudeau has driven inflation higher across the board. Gasoline, natural gas, food, etc. He's a clown and if it wasn't for the Toronto area, we might be rid of him...
Why did you need to impress us, that you live in a ritzy neighborhood, with the pretext of complaining about your tax bill? Get your nose, out of the air.
I don't live in a ritzy neighborhood. The prices have been driven through the stratosphere by all the speculation buyer's. I could never afford to live here and buy today. The prices are insane. How a house can be worth 600,000 more this year than last year is anyone's guess. It defies logic. If you think mine is bad a house 1 block over from me just sold for 3.3 million. Sure it is on the beach but when rich assholes come in and over bid on these expensive mansions it screws the rest of us because all of a sudden our place is worth on paper much more than it really is and that number is used to determine what we pay.
@@jewllake no, I am in Canada. Real expensive real estate here. I could never afford to buy here now. I thought i paid alot when i bought almost 30 years ago. Property has gone up about 18x since then.
Thanks for posting this video, we appreciate your time! These were sweet little receivers back in the day; the entry level models were nice for small living rooms, garages/workshops, bedrooms, etc. for the smaller home and apartment living back in the mid-70's. Some folks got wrapped up in the XX watts/power wars for rooms that were way too small. I always liked this line, along with the Sansui G-X000 line...all sweet sounding units that if they were taken care of, just need a little tune-up now for their next life. Happy New Year!
Have a modest Kenwood KR-2090 (16 wpc) receiver. It rocks the shop with pair pioneer CS-R5100-K speakers. Love the vintage equipment. Thanks for this video Dave!
I love this vids...it starts with complete chaos with a heater that needs to be turned off and a good bang on the machine to see if that will make any difference . Awesome. Thank you for the great videos. I learned a lot through these...
Watching ya work on a little pioneer while listening to my 15 watt a channel sansui which in my small home is just right. Yes I have some beasts that are too much daily background tunes. I like those little stereos of the 60-70s ere.
Remember when you fixed up my Pioneer SX-434 a few years ago? It's still working great! I use it almost every day.
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That was 3 years ago. I don't remember things i worked on 3 days ago. 😁
I'm guessing that he's slept since then 😄
I had an SX-770. It had a full plexi backlit face, but used the same dial and meter behind. I think it was 35 watts per channel, sounded pretty good!
🐌 - It's got 150 Chinese watts 😁
But seriously... It's a nice-looking little unit. Glad that you're giving it some love...
I remember working on a few of these back in the day.
Mostly scratchy variables and the caps would sometimes
be bad in these where people tried to overdrive them.
Yeah we just had property tax hike here also, but nothing
like the way it sounds like they are turning the screws on you
there. They don't want people to own anything anymore is
what it comes down to. You buy a house and they can still
come take it from you if they want to. Well they haven't run
me out yet but they are trying. Cheers! 🍻 -AC
many variations of this one out there.. people love them they always sell from my shop - earlier version from the mid 60s have much more inside.
Great video. I still own my Pioneer SX650. Still working today. Switches need a little work. Curious as to what your using to clean the switches on this unit. Is it a cleaner as well a lubricant. Can you buy it locally or do l have to buy it on line. Any information would greatly appreciated. Thank you for sharing.
Nice work again.
That little bulb that lights up the sliding radio dial indicator is a bit of a pain to replace. Think I'll live without it.
I had a Pioneer 626(?) back when I was in the Air Force. In its later years it developed a habit of occasionally semi-blowing (it caused distortion) in one of the speaker fuses. You have to pay a lot of bucks for that chrome look nowadays.
The entry level receivers from this era required efficient speakers, but given
a decent pair of speakers they still sounded good.
In terms of appearance, i prefered the wood cabinets to the later black or silver
all metal look.
Tandberg made some excellent ones, replacing the output capacitors would
bring them back to life for a few more years.
I find them far easier to listen to compared to the harsh sounding overpowered
modern receivers.
As the saying goes, they don't make them like they used to.🙂
Great video !
Yep basic but ok for background music, and it's been reliable.
I've seen the grey dotted connectors on most old amps go really dull.
The pull out staples can play up too, i always check them before blaming the inputs.
Only posh units had a gold flashing (but pointless if the cable plugs are not gold flashed).
Pioneer SX-434, production years 74-76, 15 watts per channel, ceramic filters, FM muting MSRP $250
Your opinion please on "protection" message on a Denon AVR-70. Thank You
Happy with myself tonight, I had a problem with the picture on an old lcd Samsung tv, the picture was all polarised and weird, I noticed an ic on the timer control board was getting rather hot, found another ic on a different tcon I had (different number on it but doing the same job.) replaced it and the picture is perfect, cost me absolutely nothing but half an hours work
Now, do what I did, change that gama correction ic on the TCON board.
@@12voltvids that's the ic I changed I think
@@reacey The little flat pack IC about 1/4" square?
@@12voltvids yeh that's the one as15 or something like that, seems to be a common failure, iv seen the same problem (same chip but slightly different tcon) on a sony bravia lcd aswell
@@reacey yes I have changed a few on Sony. They cost 1.81.
Yes these were a budget reciever,but for what they were they didn't sound to bad.
As far as the property, Sell and move, pocket the change. As far as the Pioneer SX-434, It looks like Pioneer, Kenwood and Soundesign had a late night threesome. I do love Pioneer though, as I have an SM-G205 working, an SX-110 a restoration in progress but works, the phono stage sounds amazing. And of course, the regulars, an SX-1000-TW, SX-1500. The 1000 is a survivor that sounds great and looks almost new.
That only works if I was willing to move to the interrior where realestate is cheap. Since I am not willing to relocate this is not an option. To stay in the area means wherever i buy will be in the same range. Unless i move to the leashold property down on first nation's land which is something many are doing but they are not really that much cheaper and since are not on the city fire protection insurance costs if you can even get it will be much higher. The reason the prices here are in the stratosphere is where i am is the area that everyone wants to be in. The pandemic and everyone working from home has made the problem worse. I am down by the beach and everyone wants beach front property or wants to be within a 5 minute walk to the beach.
If you ever get the chance to fix up the first pioneer stereo from 1960 the SMQ140 id love to see that.
I can't fix something I don't have.
Colleague, let me ask you, I have a Pioneer 434 with burnt out lamps. How many volts??..On the pioneer 434
Nice! Like I tell, this kind of thing and PSUs of anything. :)))
They will adjust the Mil rate Taxes will go up about 4 to 6 %
if i had that amp i would take the power stage out and put a velleman kit amp in there 🤣 that would tripple the power for pennies 🤣🤣
Could put that 200WPC module I have in it.
The output power is determined by the vcc rails. Using transistors with higher ratings won't do do it either. Doesn't hurt as they will be less likely to fail, but you won't get more power
@@12voltvids that be a video i would love to watch 😀
@@marka1986 duh, obviously the transformer would have to be upped too.
@@12voltvids yup. Was commenting because alot of people don't seem to know. Got asked more than once if I could increase the power of their amp. I know you know that.
Ouch,55%,that means your selling. Or the Canadian politicians are paying themselves well.
I have a Pioneer SX-838 -50 watts per Channel, did an oops on one speaker channel wire, think I took out a final transistor. It has sound but way down ,on one side. They go for aprox $ 600 refurbished on ebay, nice unit. But I'm not selling, will inject a signal & trace my channel issue.
nice stereo
Do you like pioneer as a brand ?
I likes their Laserdisk players and they had some nice components in their elite line.
1.8M? You should crank up CCR's "Fortunate Son" and make your front yard look like a Rummage Sale.
If it's possible, try appealing your tax assessment. My property taxes went up 28 percent. I appealed it with the county and they lowered it by 19 percent.
I bet someone buys that for $250+ because its silver with pretty colors.
You need to move. I have 4 times the lot you have and I assume my home is at least twice as big. We're at 260k and taxes are 2.9k.
The problem is I don't want to leave the area. I could cash out and move to interrior or valley. Well lots of homes burned to ground last summer in fire season and lots were flooded this November in the valley in November. If I sell anything will be at least as expensive anywhere I would consider living. I am lucky to have the lot size i have because devilopers are buying 2 side by side or corner lots are subdividing them to 33 foot lots and getting the same money. About the only thing wouls be sell and move to the new devolopments on the reserve but those are lease hold properties. Very expensive here. For millionaires only.
@@12voltvids well, you're always welcome here in TN! Thanks for all the knowledge you share!!
Trudeau has driven inflation higher across the board. Gasoline, natural gas, food, etc. He's a clown and if it wasn't for the Toronto area, we might be rid of him...
Why did you need to impress us, that you live in a ritzy neighborhood, with the pretext of complaining about your tax bill? Get your nose, out of the air.
I don't live in a ritzy neighborhood. The prices have been driven through the stratosphere by all the speculation buyer's. I could never afford to live here and buy today. The prices are insane. How a house can be worth 600,000 more this year than last year is anyone's guess. It defies logic. If you think mine is bad a house 1 block over from me just sold for 3.3 million. Sure it is on the beach but when rich assholes come in and over bid on these expensive mansions it screws the rest of us because all of a sudden our place is worth on paper much more than it really is and that number is used to determine what we pay.
@@12voltvids Sounds like the San Francisco Bay Area! I hate living here!
@@jewllake no, I am in Canada. Real expensive real estate here. I could never afford to buy here now. I thought i paid alot when i bought almost 30 years ago. Property has gone up about 18x since then.