Love your video's on repairs. They're educational and it keeps my brain lubricated.

@lovelyheiferdev

4 жыл бұрын

Same here, and it's itching me to buy a stereo as well 😄

Many cell phones have infrared capabilities. I've used the app "Peel remote" for an older Kenwood preamp that didn't come with a remote. Worked great! Awesome CD player btw. I've gotten 2 older Dennon units like that one. Sound fantastic!

I remember that ceiling fan that was installed by the previous owner when we moved in the house back in '98, and by the time, the ceiling fan had gave up on us and it did serve well for not just for their bedroom, but also did serve well in the kitchen two. The ceiling fan quality is from Taiwan until they went to China by Hunter Ceiling Fan Company.

I know this is an old video, but the control knob next to the headphone jack serves 2 purposes, one is the headphone level, and the other one is the output ( volume) level. At least that's how it works on my 2 Denon CD players, and when using the remote, the volume knob is motorized. Keep up the great work!

I was given a Denon DCD 715 under similar circumstances but thankfully the remote came with it! Non player but a cotton bud soaked in isopropyl to the lens fixed that. Sounds great.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Those burr brown dacs sound great. My Sony es player also has them.

Excellent players those ones - a nice musical sound to them.

I have a somewhat older Sony CDP-XE510 (from 1997), and it has the same volume control which can only be adjusted with a remote. Universal remote worked okay (it could even eject the CD remotely) but I kept searching for an original remote. Finally found one and fixed it. What Sony did differently is that volume level (and pretty much everything else like play mode) would reset to the defaults if power is cycled.

Dave, do you have any experience of the Denon DMD-1000 Minidisk deck? I have one that i've completely rebuilt and it sounds rather good.

I wonder if there is a little EEPROM on the board which stores the settings. If there is you might be able to disconnect it or ground out a data line and have the unit start up with default settings. Just keep in mind some EEPROMs can store important data such as calibration information (but given all the trimpots I doubt this unit stores any calibration info digitally.)

Denon made good reliable and good sounding CD players used them on my DJ setup.

any chance you could repair an denon AVR?

That denon is as old as my 1990 Lincoln towncar. Wich has a cd player in it by the way. But the radio dose need capacitors. I just have not gotten around to pulling it out of the dash and recapping it.

LOL, I just took an old one I had upgraded and returned to the original box out of storage because my gf wanted to set a system up. I hooked it up and the cd doesn't spin. I thought it might be a dirty laser but checked KZread to see if there was anything to help me and I found your video. I've got the remote and when I start the machine it comes up as -20 like yours but the volume doesn't change pushing the volume on the remote either. Doesn't really matter as cleaning the laser did nothing. Must be something else with the machine.

The volume on the denon 820 is automatically set to -20 after approximately 2 days it is shut down (no power). Probably that’s the best level to listen to this unit without getting into possible compression and loss of dynamic range.

I have a soft spot for Denon gear, I couldn't get a Denon CD player I liked to pair with the Cassette deck. But have found a Luxman unit to sit on top

I have two denon cd players, from around the same year as this one, and they both have remote volume control. But when i change it, it resets itself to neutral when the power is switched off. Lucky me, i guess 👍

Denon in the 90's had good cd players! I have DCD-2560 (gold) special edition. and DCD-3300 which was top model and some of the best you could buy!

@pliedtka

4 жыл бұрын

2560 😲, s..t - very nice machine, damn. I never had the money to buy one and they're not easily to be found for cheap.

@carminedambrosio7

4 жыл бұрын

My first serious cd player was a Denon , buyed in '92 . They were the only japanese brand that continued to use 20bit dac , while all the other switched to the awful 1 bit dac (before Denon i had a Technics with m.a.s.h. dac , terrible sound !)

@ford1546

4 жыл бұрын

@@carminedambrosio7 1 bit dac is not always bad! I have the legendary Denon DCD-3300. I bought a TDA1305T based DAC. and compare it with denon! I was amazed at how similar the two sounded. The TDA1305T has very similar sound compared to the DENON DCD-3300 TDA1305T dac ebay. 392796353211

Quick fix, the best!

1:00 Hahaha looks like that'll come off eventually, when the plastic has slowly turned white and breaks... I wouldn't take a seat near that contraption 😅 9:10 Better to connect the S/Pdif and do the DA conversion in a standalone DAC or at the final preamp/stereo amplifier. Nice BB in there, but in the end it comes down to the reconstruction filter that's behind the DA chips.

Easy to find a remote now you know it works, I also have a couple of harmony remotes, very useful & easy to download the codes.

@ford1546

4 жыл бұрын

Harmony remotes use a bit too much battery due to the screen. Battery runs out fast! Impractical to use since the battery runs out fast! Too bad you can not turn off the screen. The harmony remote control is for people with silk gloves! logitech harmony is a good remote control since you can make it work with almost anything!

@markpirateuk

4 жыл бұрын

@@ford1546 I have no problems with mine regarding battery life, it lasts at least a week or so without charging it, maybe you need a new battery?

@ford1546

4 жыл бұрын

@@markpirateuk maybe i need a new battery. But if you compare harmony with a regular remote control, the batteries do not last long. Why not create a control that is made like a regular control that you can program? Then the batteries last several months! I only use the control for used electronics that do not have a remote control. and then the control is empty of power when i shall use it. same with older iphone where the battery runs out after 2 days even if the phone is turned off! stupid to make a phone that does that. Same with GPS many used before!

I got a DCD-1290 here. That got that same volume control on it (digital volume). When I started it for the first time I did see that -20. I didn't knew what it was. But I found the remote and then I tested the volume. Then I noticed that the -20 was the volume all along. However, the DCD-1290 does have fixed and those variable outputs. And since fixed output will always sounds beter, I never used the variable output anyway. But... when I change the volume on my player, turn it off, turn it on again, it gets back to -20. Maybe that's a feature of a player that has both fixed and variable output. And since it is a digital volume, I suggest you NEVER use that. Digital volume only got mature far after 2000 and by that time, you got those players with the DVD-like-drives in it, that are no-where as acurate as an old fashion 1:1 CD drive will be.

Better hope the fan mount doesn't suffer a fatigue failure; there's a lot of energy in those spinning blades just waiting for a nice bit of flesh to be released into.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Its a ball mount. no stress on the mount at all. like a trailer hitch.

@davidgriffin79

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids That would explain the ease of the eccentric movement of the fan.

The thing I don't like about Harmony (Logitech) universal remotes, is that they don't give you the flexibility when choosing a device from the supported list. You have to enter the exact brand, and type number. Other chinese universal remotes lets you enter just the brand for example, and they list the whole range of supported devices, even by chassis number, or remote name. Very flexible. I for example am unable to find an appropriate match for Beko chassis 10.4 remote, (RC613311) although it is used by many many devices. Harmony still doesn't lets you search for it. Very frustrating.

Good how u have a nice looking denon cd player,,,once u had fixed up the volume control with the harmony universal remote control,,,it works and sounds great altogether. Sounds like u had scored yourself a free cd player,,,in the end.

My Technics cd player gave out not sure what happen i press play it does nothing..so i just use a Sony BR player as my CD replacement. Sounds good.

Denon for free, not bad at all :-D What an ideal roadside find in this weather :-D I've never liked the extra source volume on devices, it should just output 770mV r.m.s into the amplifier. Line levels should be a standard but they are not on some devices. I have an old philips CD-150 player, it outputs 2 volts rms!!, i made a resistor attenuator to calm it down.

i got the same one, the cd tray switch needs to be cleaned.

If you have a XIOMI phone, most of there models have an IR blaster, with the right application you can use it as a remote.

I have denon dcd 600 i put a line fuse in ac primary

Made in Japan, nice. Gotta hate those remote-only functions, especially for something so crucial. Wouldn't have been such an easy fix back when it was new.

I have an Onkyo AV receiver that has HDMI ports that no longer work. First one and then the other stopped. The out port to the monitor finally went out and at that point I had to replace it. I've heard this ia a commo0n problem. I have heard the solder gets loose over time. Is this something I can repair myself?

@rawr51919

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. Just grab some solder, a soldering iron, and you should be good to go after resoldering the bad port. Just make sure not to solder multiple prongs together

@larrymor

4 жыл бұрын

@@rawr51919 Now, I have done some soldering before but not like this. Is it the actual HDMI port or could it be another connection? Do I need a special soldering instrument with a fine tip?

@Gary_M

4 жыл бұрын

I think he has a video about that, put a really hot light on it and let it bake for awhile.

@pliedtka

4 жыл бұрын

Or the HDMI chip goes bad (heat?) supposedly a common problem, especially on newer version of HDMI. You would have to read up on it, as my memory isn't that great

@larrymor

4 жыл бұрын

@@pliedtka That was my concern. that if I re-soldered that the problem would still exist. I had found a repair shop that was 30 miles away but other people told me that repair costs may be significant so I should just purchase another receiver. If I were wealthy I'd just buy new equipment every year....

that's weird. all the cd players i have with variable output also have a fixed output as well.

Why does a CD player have volume control?

@lesrogers7310

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it seems a little daft really. Maybe it's to equalise the sound with other components in a system.

Just Cleaned and Re-Flowed My CD player, good for another 20 Years or so. Why would You want a Volume Control on a CD player?. You sould get a pack of those small Magnetic blocks, and put them on the ends of the Fan blades. Just like they do when Balancing the Wheel on Your Car.

Could your Samsung phone have the capability to program a remote app from the Google Play store? I believe all Samsung Galaxy phones have an IR sensor, etc. Would be neat to see it in action! :)

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

That was a feature of the galaxy6 I have a 9. No more IR blaster. My samsung tablet has that feature, and I do have a remote program for it as I have used it to get into service menus on TVs.

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Thanks for all your videos. I've got a request, can you please make a video for cassette deck DENON DRM-800 belts replacement procedure? Thanks a lot in advance.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

And just where would you like me to get that Denon DRM-800? Pull it out of my ass? Sorry to disappoint you but I don't have a warehouse full of vintage audio equipment. I can only fix what people bring me. Rest assure if one walks in the door there will be a video made of it,

I hope you can balance that fan better. Even that little bit of a wiggle will fatigue the metal and eventually break it.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

The fan has a plastic ball that sits in metal bracket. Like a universal joint or a trailer hitch.

do some cd player repairs, usually stick to marantz cd 63/67 series, they are easy to do, have few faults, lasers are going on them now and are easily sourced and reliable, sometimes the 5v regulator goes on them as they have a poor heatsink, it results in no switch on, but basically well made reliable players, sony's are sometimes different, run a mile with players with kss240a lasers as even new ones are unreliable, and pioneer players can cost a fortune if laser is dead so not worth it, same goes for a lot of sony es players, never tried a denon yet though.

Wow....!

Does the volume also control digital out? Very decent DACs, and headphone output with volume control😃. Don't you love to have all the controls accessible on the front panel (in case the Remote gets lost). If the volume also controls digital out, it could be a nice way to prevent clipping and distortions on many of the overly compressed CDs with 20 or so dBs of dynamics🤣 -jbl loudness war. But that has to be investigated if it actually does something to signal before conversion. Normally you would want Sinusoidal signal to hit -3dB not 0dB to prevent distortions. When I ripped old CDs, especially from 80s and early 90s most of them would barely hit 0dB. But ever since portable digital players appeared powered by little dinky 3V Codecs/amplifiers it turned out that the signal level is too low to power headphones - solution, more compression and clipping to raise the signal. Now they sell equipment with Hi-Res logo BS and some Hi-Def downloads that are not much better than properly mastered and cut CDs - if we had the DVD Audio PCM format accepted in 90s, then the Hi-Res is nothing new, just reinvented wheel with lower profile tires.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

In digital you can not exceed 0db. The biggest problem with early cds was the record companies were too cheap to make a separate mix for CD. The cd master was made from the same analog tape used to make the 45db dynamic range limit mix that was mixed to sound best on limited vinyl and cassette equipment. I never experienced this because the music I listen to was mostly full digital. Recorded digitally, mixed digitally.fantastic dynamics well beyond anything analog could ever hope to reproduce.

I had the same one.

@theanimatronicscollectoran4193

4 жыл бұрын

But it had a read problem.

You need to reverse the direction on the ceiling fan,,,,with the small chain u had mention,,,,it,s going the wrong way,,,it,s on winter mode,,,not summer,,,that,s probably why you're getting too hot in the workshop.

I like fan

That ceiling fan looks to b going the wrong way,,,it,s looks to b set in winter mode,,,not summer. Probably explains why you're getting so hot in your workshop,,,reverse the switch on the fan motor to get it going the other way,,,,for summer mode.

Many CD players use BB. DAC. even cheap cd players.

This Denon DCD820 was a good mid range CD player in 1990. The dual Burr Brown DAC and quality audio filters were among the finest on the Japanese decks. Philips's TDA 1541 (A) was also a good contender, but existed in various quality, some being tested for a better linearity (special crown markings...). They were also a little older in conception, and perhaps more expensive, as Philips or Marantz sold few double DAC decks, compared to Japanese Denon, Yamaha... and many others using Burr Brown converters. These generation of decks generally suffers from bad loading belts, but have relatively simple and easy to maintain mechanisms. Laser units can easily be supplied... These units can also have issues with brown goo glue, and bad supply filtering caps. Reflowing the voltage regulators is also interesting if you unmount the main board. And what is surprising is the sound quality even latest DAC have difficulty to challenge, 30 years plus later... So if someone is generously donating one of these old looking Japanese decks, it's a piece of equipment you can use without shame, even if it won't play MP3, WMA, Flacc or other compressed formats...

It always irritated me when devices external to the amp or receiver had their own volume control.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

I hear you. It ticks me off too.

That fan looks like it wants to kiII you! :-) I thoroughly recommend the Logitech Harmony remotes. I have a 650, a little less fancy than yours but still great, for up to 8 devices (originally 5 but they changed the software). I never have to help anyone in the family turn on the TV and surround system; it knows what to turn on and which inputs to select. And when something goes wrong, you just push HELP and it fixes everything (usually).

I have the same fan and it should NOT behave like that !! looks dangerous!!

silly problem lol

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