They were the WORST receivers on eBay. Now they're restored!

It's nice to see that someone else has the same tribulations with restoration. I'm far from a pro, but I love troubleshooting, repairing, and restoring vintage audio. Sometimes, my attempts don't quite meet my standards, but I continue to get better.

The work you did on both receivers was outstanding, Especially the Marantz. The 3D printing of the bezel was not perfect but it was still pretty damn good!! If that were my receiver I would be ecstatic! I appreciate your dedication to restoring vintage receivers. Your videos are so interesting considering I know absolutely nothing about electronics. Keep up the the great work!

Stirling work always a pleasure to watch.

All of your restoration videos have been brilliant. I can vouch for the quality of the Vintage Hi Fi Audio products. After watching your video I bought a face plate from them and with new LEDs and vellum paper my Marantz 2220b almost looks like a museum piece. All I need is a selector knob, and they are currently back ordered.

I replaced all the electrolytics in my 2250B tone board except the bipolars at the output of the stage, since I didn't have them. Came back to it later, replaced the bipolars with film, and the improvement was dramatic. I measured the ESR of the original bipolars versus the film - the film was less than 1/10th the ESR.

I wondered what happened to those 2 pieces. Nice to get things off of our to- do list Aidan. Nice demonstration of how multi- tasking can be challenging in focusing on the task we are completing

Good to see you Aidan and glad you were able to resurrect these two zombie receivers back into the living. Landfill destined vintage equipment that is saved to enjoy is a marvelous thing and a great job you did to be honest. Had my doubts in the very beginning😊 Alignment video will be a nice subject and interesting seeing the results. Montana in the summer time, trout fishing must be fantastic. Thanks for the work, see you next time.

Absolutely fantastic job bringing these vintage receivers bask to life!

Long time viewer., glad to see you putting out another vid. Your work on the bezel reminds me of things I need to do when working on motorcycle parts. As a tip, I would have made a blank faceplate out of aluminum to hold the bezel together outside of the faceplate, Then I would have used some epoxy or bondo to fill the joint. After curing, I would have then sanded and polished the bezel, followed by painting. Then remove the blank and install the glass plate. I'm not being critical, just trying to solve the issue together. Keep up the good work!

They look fantastic, more important they sound good and will be reliable...ENJOY.....

Brilliant work. Never give up is the Moto here.

Thank you for giving these amazing pieces of history a long healthy life 👍🏻🤘🏻

Good job. The average Joe doesn't have a scooby about what goes into a proper restoration of these vintage items, probably due to Ebay being flooded with 'serviced' items.

You did a great job on the Marantz face plate, Aiden!

I agree with you about the electrolytics. Nowadays everyone seems to replace them with film capacitors. Not a good idea unless you use polypropylene caps but these are way too big. Many people cannot hear the difference, but the better your source, speakers etc, the more obvious the difference becomes. I use an old Fluke 45 for power measurement, so I don't have to do the calculation and you can do 20 Khz 😀

Turned out very well and vintage hifi lives on.

Awesome, I been watching the series. We know is not your day job. I have a sx 750 that I got for almost nothing. Already got going, I did wash not exactly because of you. I done before using a modified tektronix protocol. The wood case on my is beyond repair, I will do a hardwood case. Hunting Dow the speaker and plug plate, mine is just to rusty. Anyway great video, restorations and weird repairs are just like. I was pretty bitter last night, with my Sony 1120 😂😂😂

You should have 3D printed the pieces with offset seams. Less noticeable. Go 1-2" to the right on the top and the same for the bottom left. You might also 45 degree them and overlap for a cleaner fit even. Some light sanding would probably still be required. But then again, that's a bunch of work. What you have done looks great.

You mentioned electrolytic capacitors and the possibility of the loss of the Marantz sound when film caps were used as a replacement has me thinking maybe my repair tech may have replaced the electrolytics with Film caps in in my Sherwood HP2000 integrated amp because it doesn’t have that warm and detailed sound it once had. A noticeable Loss of highs for sure

Nice video and thanks for the entertainment. Your speaker knob doesn't look to bad, I would try some solvents to see if the black will come off. Start with industrial goo gone and move up the ladder of stronger solvents like MEK on a rag. If its still there try some 320 or finer sandpaper and sand in a circular motion. Lol one way or another it will come off.