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OLD SCHOOL 16 TONE AUDIO NO.78 FEATURE FEATURE Recapping the HH Scott 357 By Erik Owen Publisher’s Intro: As many of our readers know, I’m a big lover of vintage hifi and I’ve dedicated the past 11 years to finding cool vintage gear to report on. I’m passing the torch to my friend Erik Owen, proprietor of Gig Harbor Audio in Gig Harbor, Washington, about 100 miles north of the TONE office. Their shop offers a great mix of new gear, gently used gear and stellar vintage gear. But the real key to buying vintage audio gear is having a great tech to keep it up and running properly, which Erik also has. They’ve done a couple of units for me and the work has been beyond reproach. Best of all, they’ve got a steady stream of great gear always at their disposal, so Erik is going to be writing this column going forward. Readers, meet Erik! There is an old Russian saying that drinking beer without vodka is like throwing your money to the wind. When it comes to restoring vintage hifi, this translates as: make sure your unit is in great cosmetic shape before investing in a bunch of new capacitors. Replacing caps and transistors are as important as enjoying a tall crisp beer after a hard day of work, but if the tuner glass is cracked, your good intentions and cash are about to fly out the window. AUGUST 2016 17
OLD SCHOOL 18 TONE AUDIO NO.78 FEATURE Last month our friend Mike rolled into Gig Harbor Audio carrying a bubble wrapped HH Scott 357 solid state receiver. This receiver was a great example of a unit in excellent cosmetic shape, like it had just been removed from Don Draper’s Manhattan office. Mike’s father had played it gently for over 25 years until moving it to storage in a dry, clean box for another 2 decades. The HH Scott 357 is a compact, smart-looking receiver with an FM display that turns from green to warm red when the station locks in! Unlike the rat’s nest of wires hiding in an earlier HH Scott 222 tube integrated, the 357 is a neat and tidy 25 watt per channel receiver with a punch. Mike was willing to sink in some cash to get it sounding close to what it did when his dad purchased it in 1971. This unit was special because Mike had spent his wonder years enjoying it with his dad, and since it was in great cosmetic shape, he could probably get his money out of it if he had to. Now he can pour a couple of icy shots of Grey Goose. Restored, this mini powerhouse came in at $275 and with all new caps. Our goal with recapping is to get as close as possible to what something sounded like when it first came out within reason. We don’t hot rod units but instead restore them as best we can to deliver happiness. On this 357 we overhauled the power supply and changed all power supply caps, recapped the tone board and tuner using Nichicon capacitors, re-lamped and cleaned the display, and cleaned all controls and switches with contact cleaner and DeOx-It. Before giving a unit back to a customer we break it in for at least 4 or 5 days. There are parts in a restored unit, like Mike’s 357, that were not replaced because we considered them still good. These parts have not experienced a signal passing through them for 25 years and need to get a thorough stress test. Plus the new parts need to break in. Imagine a pair of shoes. They aren’t comfy until they contour to one’s feet over 1 to 2 weeks. Capacitors, speaker drivers, and even turntable cartridges are the same. They break in over periods of months, even years. This brings up some of the choices of a tech. Recap every single section in the unit? What if the phonostage still sounds quite nice and strong? If you recap it you might gain 20 more years of play, but you’ll lose the benefit of break-in courtesy of 25 years of Mantovani and Martin Denny LPs. We shoot for the best bang for the buck to enjoy a unit again. (continued) FEATURE AUGUST 2016 19
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