i sure hope this works as it worked for me on the gx300.......tuner issues i can't deal with as i am a lamer lol
No worries nothing to loose...
In my experience with sharps, sound regulation issues are usually dried electrolytic caps, but that's on the gf series, bit of a classic especially when loudness or bass doesn't seem to do all that much. So we ll see.
I wouldn't have come up with doing it over and over myself anyway!
I think in the tuner something shorted... Same thing happened on a jvc 656 tuner it just stopped working... Still haven't figured that one out lol... Replaced almost everything but the AM/FM chip. As for the crackling sound in the right speaker, I first thought it was due tu it not having any surrounds, but it's the channel - but headphones out is good. Often on these things when you open them up and undo some wiring guides... Solder cracks / bad connections happen. These things are indeed ticking time bombs...
But don't you miss the feel when you get one back to life Floyd?
PS : this is a really odd bird... Technics buttons and plates and slider construction, sanyo and nec chips,... Doesn't even "feel" like a sharp, except for the speakers, and those have these 2nd class filters with coils and all... And they must have loved flipping the thing over... The locks for the speakers being on the bottom lol