Hi Guys,
Over the past few months, I've been spending a lot of time lately with my 1 piece units. I had my recently acquired RX-5150 at my sons' soccer carnival yesterday providing the tunes to our team supporters. It ran all day on 8 D cells just fine and sounded great. The battery meter at the end of the day still read 100%!!
Anyway, we get home and I go to plug in the RX-5150 into the wall socket for some tunes whilst cooking dinner. The wife was wanting to listen to some 80s rock and for a change, I dug out my rebuilt 1981 Hitachi TRK-9300W.
I must say, I'd completely forgotten how great the old girl sounded. Clear highs, confident bass - just a great all round satisfying sound.
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Hitachi TRK-9300W!
​ What do you say? An Hitachi isn't the way to go if you want quality sound! Right? 
Well, I agree with you up to a point. You see, Hitachi did make strong sounding boxes. Although their 1 piece units have great mids and highs, Hitachi seemed to reserve the more powerful, bassy sound for their late 70s to early 80s 15V 3 piece units.
Please don't confuse this model with the later, less capable but much more common mid to late eighties 12V and 9V Hitachi 3 piece units.
Weighing in at 9.95 kg, it's no feather weight but it's actually quite compact so it's a handy package regardless.
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My 3 piece bass boxes. The RX-C45 pumps out nice bass. The TRK-9300 has a similar sound but with better highs and more power.
Work required to restore the factory performance of TRK-9300W:
1. Main Speakers re-foamed
2. Line In switch rebuilt
3. RCA Speaker terminals re-soldered at the board & external speaker wiring upgraded.
4. Re-capped (minus tuner board).
5. Speaker box sound deadening upgraded.
6. All switches / sliders cleaned to restore function
7. Deck lubed and micro switches cleaned (belts were OK)
Quick poor quality sound test:
http://youtu.be/3vpnZyoyFdo
So what's your favorite box when you want a more complete audio experience?
James...
Over the past few months, I've been spending a lot of time lately with my 1 piece units. I had my recently acquired RX-5150 at my sons' soccer carnival yesterday providing the tunes to our team supporters. It ran all day on 8 D cells just fine and sounded great. The battery meter at the end of the day still read 100%!!
Anyway, we get home and I go to plug in the RX-5150 into the wall socket for some tunes whilst cooking dinner. The wife was wanting to listen to some 80s rock and for a change, I dug out my rebuilt 1981 Hitachi TRK-9300W.
I must say, I'd completely forgotten how great the old girl sounded. Clear highs, confident bass - just a great all round satisfying sound.
View attachment 4133
Hitachi TRK-9300W!
​ What do you say? An Hitachi isn't the way to go if you want quality sound! Right? Well, I agree with you up to a point. You see, Hitachi did make strong sounding boxes. Although their 1 piece units have great mids and highs, Hitachi seemed to reserve the more powerful, bassy sound for their late 70s to early 80s 15V 3 piece units.
Please don't confuse this model with the later, less capable but much more common mid to late eighties 12V and 9V Hitachi 3 piece units.
Weighing in at 9.95 kg, it's no feather weight but it's actually quite compact so it's a handy package regardless.
View attachment 4132
My 3 piece bass boxes. The RX-C45 pumps out nice bass. The TRK-9300 has a similar sound but with better highs and more power.
Work required to restore the factory performance of TRK-9300W:
1. Main Speakers re-foamed
2. Line In switch rebuilt
3. RCA Speaker terminals re-soldered at the board & external speaker wiring upgraded.
4. Re-capped (minus tuner board).
5. Speaker box sound deadening upgraded.
6. All switches / sliders cleaned to restore function
7. Deck lubed and micro switches cleaned (belts were OK)
Quick poor quality sound test:
http://youtu.be/3vpnZyoyFdo
So what's your favorite box when you want a more complete audio experience?
James...
