wstrickland1 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Years ago my late brother gave me a Pioneer SX 3900 receiver. I really didn't know what I had and when I started down the road of surround sound I had no use for it and "gave" it to my buddy in Beaufort. Well, I am making a workout area in my garage so asked him if he still had it, which he did but DAYUMMM did he mess it up. I plugged it in tonite and it lighrs up and powers up fine, but I get this loud, buzzy hum from both channels. Now this model is considered by some to be a nice piece, 120 wpc, low distortion specs and built like a tank weighing in at 44 lbs. Does anyone have an opinion about what might be wrong or if it would be worth fixing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Hi Billy , You might try pulling the cover and cleaning it out . If your bud had , has pets that could do it . My old Phase Linear did the same thing towards the end of it's life cycle and it turned out to be the transformer . Which in my case was not repairable . Hope it's just dirty . [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wstrickland1 Posted February 11, 2006 Author Share Posted February 11, 2006 Frawley referred me to a shop that works on vintage equipment. I lugged it down there on Friday and described the problem to the guy. He told me that based on my imitation of the sound that it was about a $135 fix. Add to that $5.99 for throat lozenges because my imitating the buzzing sound really hurt my throat. Anything for the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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