Good morning, all!
Several times in my life, I've owned five JVC PC-55s. While overall a really cool unit and many people discuss the positives, there were three things I didn't like about them.
These are my thoughts;
1). While a nice clean (boring?) design overall, the unit sorely lacked any VU meters of any sort other than the tape deck. It would have been nice to see a set (backlit analogue would have been really neat) placed in the amplifier section or even a spectrum analyser.
2) The backlight lamp holder for the tape deck LCD display. Since the lamps were incandescent, they would get hot after a while which made the plastic holder gradually becomes brittle and break in spots when changing the bulbs. Of course now, LED fuse bulbs eliminate that problem. And that darn ribbon cable gets in the way. Of which...
3) That @#$&!?! tape deck ribbon cable. Very thin and cheap in my opinion. Now, if JVC would have made one sy triple the thickness with thicker wires for durability, I think the LCD display would not have problems as much as they do. I did read and see somewhere this guy replaced all those cables with individual soldered wires. He said it took him over two weeks to do but the display is without any problems now.
Several times in my life, I've owned five JVC PC-55s. While overall a really cool unit and many people discuss the positives, there were three things I didn't like about them.
These are my thoughts;
1). While a nice clean (boring?) design overall, the unit sorely lacked any VU meters of any sort other than the tape deck. It would have been nice to see a set (backlit analogue would have been really neat) placed in the amplifier section or even a spectrum analyser.
2) The backlight lamp holder for the tape deck LCD display. Since the lamps were incandescent, they would get hot after a while which made the plastic holder gradually becomes brittle and break in spots when changing the bulbs. Of course now, LED fuse bulbs eliminate that problem. And that darn ribbon cable gets in the way. Of which...
3) That @#$&!?! tape deck ribbon cable. Very thin and cheap in my opinion. Now, if JVC would have made one sy triple the thickness with thicker wires for durability, I think the LCD display would not have problems as much as they do. I did read and see somewhere this guy replaced all those cables with individual soldered wires. He said it took him over two weeks to do but the display is without any problems now.
