After debating the choice of fixing up my turntables myself or getting them serviced by a certified technician I decided to take what I thought would be the safer choice and handed them over to a certified Panasonic technician.
The pitch faders where out and even though the RCA cables worked they where a bit short at times and seemed like they where starting to decay.
So getting these two things fixed seemed simple.
I got the two technics 1200 back today set them up only to find that on one of them the right channel is gone! With the help of my brother and a multimeter we discover that their is no signal from one of the tone-arm connections to PCB where the RCA cables connect! So he has messed up a cable going through the tone-arm, FANTASTIC!
After getting worked up over this I go over to my other deck to check it out. Seems to be working fine... check the pitch that should be fixed now. Its the exact same!! Not fixed at all!
I just paid someone to butcher my turntables!
The main reason this sucks is because I have a party to do Saturday. Right now its Thursday night.
I am so frustrated and pissed off.
I'm going to call that place as soon as it opens tomorrow and give this f*cker one hell of a throw down. Either he is paying for hire or he is fixing these up before Saturday night.
I am guessing hired turntables will have crap pitch.
I guess its a regular house party crapola fest. I still don't want to spend 5 hours infront of decks where it is near impossible to mix.
Thats fucking bullshit... Beat this arsehole down. How the fuck can you respect yourself as a technician and hand something when you havent tested it or clearly know it is still not fixed.
These people shit me up the wall...
Keep us updated though man.
Dec-15-2006 01:14
minim0
tranceaddict in training
Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Portland Maine, USA
Don't even speak with him when you call, go directly to his superior. You know what you're going to get if you confront him about it, just a lot of "I don't know what you're talking about" and "sorry, I don't know what to tell you" crap.
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Master Procrastinator
Dec-15-2006 05:34
T-Soma
The Sky Was Pink...
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Chair
I worked today but made a lot of phone calls...
When I spoke to him he first tried to hide the face that he f*cked the connection in the tone-arm... "nooo, couldn't have been me"
Then when I told him the pitch is still messed up he tried to convince me that it jumping from %1 to %3 is normal.
"Look here is the manual it has that there is a +-3 tolerance"
I don't he is a dodgy tech at all anymore. He is just realy realy stupid. I know now that I should have just done it myself. I can solder, my bro is nearly finished his elec eng course... Im doing this sh*t myself next time!
Time to find out what is going on! Ill write back soon
Ok the cable in the tone-arm may have been worn down and it just snapped, he fixed that so its fine.
But I went to look at prices for pitch faders.
Is it worth replacing a the pcb aswell if im not sure whats wrong?
Its going to cost me about $55 per pcb+fader just to buy them
It cost me $55 per turntable.
Im only 16!! thats $220 GONE!!
Im so pissed off right now.
I wonna find out where this guy lives and throw my decks through is windows!!
Anyway... the question again
Is it worth replacing the PCB aswell? Could it be stuffed?
Try and calm down. You'll achieve much more if you deal with this rationally!
Deep breaths!
Jarv
Dec-15-2006 10:19
T-Soma
The Sky Was Pink...
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Chair
very true.
Last night I was just really angry and stressed.
I'm alright now.
I'm borrowing a friends decks and going to call the guy on Monday to see if I can get some cheap new faders.
