These just in: Yamaha CA-2010 and CT-1010

gmjungbluth
gmjungbluth Posts: 232
edited January 2016 in Vintage Speakers
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I just found these on DC CL. In excellent if dirty cosmetic condition. The seller said one channel wasn't working. I am hopeful that a good cleaning of the pots and the preamp coupling switch will do the trick. I'll post updates when I have them.
HT System:
Marantz NR-1403
Front: Klipsch CF-4
Rear: Paradigm Atom V3
Center: Boston Acoustic VR12
Sub: Bowers & Wilkins ASW600

2Ch:
Restored Fisher 500C
Yamaha P-500 Turntable

Living Room:
Harman Kardon 3380
Restored Polk Monitor 7B

Bedroom:
Harman Kardon VR-3750
Cambridge Soundworks Ensemble
Polk PSW10

In and out of rotation:
KLH Model 6,
Polk LSI7
NAD 7100
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,007
    Sweet.
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,589
    edited January 2016
    Congrats. Eye Candy :)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,666
    Not just eye candy -- nice stuff. Sonically, even by modern standards, I'd opine.
    Aesthetically very nice too -- heck, Yamaha's basically gone back to those 1970s styling cues with some of their current products.

    Hard to believe those components came from the same era as the AMC Gremlin and the leisure suit :-P

    The coupler "issue" is endemic in those old Yamahas (as I'm sure you know). We'll all hope for trivial resolution to its issue. I think the "Class A" switches sometimes suffer from careless users who change operating modes with the amp on and running, too.

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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    The left channel on my CA-1010 is out as well, somewhere in the preamp stage. Left channel works fine if I use it as a power amp. I'll get it to a tech one of these days, probably so I can sell it.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • gmjungbluth
    gmjungbluth Posts: 232
    edited January 2016
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    Update- cleaning was a success! I cleaned and lubed all the pots and switches and both channels work now. I want to clean the front panel and knobs before reassembling. Then I'll test it with some real speakers.
    HT System:
    Marantz NR-1403
    Front: Klipsch CF-4
    Rear: Paradigm Atom V3
    Center: Boston Acoustic VR12
    Sub: Bowers & Wilkins ASW600

    2Ch:
    Restored Fisher 500C
    Yamaha P-500 Turntable

    Living Room:
    Harman Kardon 3380
    Restored Polk Monitor 7B

    Bedroom:
    Harman Kardon VR-3750
    Cambridge Soundworks Ensemble
    Polk PSW10

    In and out of rotation:
    KLH Model 6,
    Polk LSI7
    NAD 7100
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  • littlewoodboats
    littlewoodboats Posts: 823
    My CA1000 had a stuck Class A/B switch. They can get stuck in class A if switched back and forth with the power on. I picked up an upgraded switch from a Yamaha specialist on another forum. My amp has sounded great with every pair of vintage Polks I have tried with the Monitor 7's being my favorites.
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,077
    Very nice!
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  • gmjungbluth
    gmjungbluth Posts: 232
    Another update. The unit is all clean, inside and out and I was looking forward to testing it on my Klipsch CF-4s against my Fisher 500c. But then I plugged it in and didn't have the right channel!

    So it looks like the preamp coupling switch in the back is still wonky. When I bypass the switch and run RCAs from the preamp to the amp jacks everything works fine. I may try to clean the coupling switch again but is there any reason why I couldn't just keep it hooked up the way it is now? I may make some short interconnects and stop worrying about the switch altogether.
    HT System:
    Marantz NR-1403
    Front: Klipsch CF-4
    Rear: Paradigm Atom V3
    Center: Boston Acoustic VR12
    Sub: Bowers & Wilkins ASW600

    2Ch:
    Restored Fisher 500C
    Yamaha P-500 Turntable

    Living Room:
    Harman Kardon 3380
    Restored Polk Monitor 7B

    Bedroom:
    Harman Kardon VR-3750
    Cambridge Soundworks Ensemble
    Polk PSW10

    In and out of rotation:
    KLH Model 6,
    Polk LSI7
    NAD 7100
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    You can use jumper in place of the switch. You could also Y off the pre-outs, and feed a separate power amp in another room.
    Home Theater/2 Channel:
    Front: SDA-2ATL forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/143984/my-2as-finally-finished-almost/p1
    Center: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/150760/my-center-channel-project/p1
    Surrounds & Rears: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/151647/my-surround-project/p1
    Sonicaps, Mills, RDO-194s-198s, Dynamat, Hurricane Nuts, Blackhole5
    Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV, Carver PM-600, SVS PB2-Plus Subwoofer

    dhsspeakerservice.com/
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