Spilled coffee in my receiver -- after a few days, it's maybe OK now!

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Lifer
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It's a Teac AG-2050 AV Surround Receiver, bought it over 15 years ago I figure at Costco for $150. I've had it in my bedroom. I was home sick today and took a nap and woke up and reached for my coffee cup and it tipped slightly. I looked in it and saw coffee, figured (hoped) I didn't spill any. Wasn't feeling good, so not very heads up. The receiver stays on a level of the table below where the coffee was.

I went and turned on the receiver a couple of hours later and it seemed to work except there was no sound. Finally realized I'd spilled coffee on a portion of the receiver. Removed it from it's location and opened it up, dried it out as much as possible, blew the dust out with a vacuum in reverse. Got it real dry, I think. Hooked it up with an antenna and speakers and no sound still. Tried headphones from the headphone jack and nothing. A different set of headphones and a faint sound, music! Then I heard sound from the speakers. However, the volume from the speakers and headphones is faint. I have to turn up the volume control to the max to get soft music. Strange. Any suggestions? Shop, I suppose. I figure maybe, just maybe, it will get louder. Or I could get the output from it and amplify it further with a T class amp. Or just shop.
 
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Lifer
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I see an Onkyo 5.1 TX-SV414 for $60, I'd have to drive close to 50 miles round trip. Has remote and manual. But I don't need 5.1 in my bedroom, the TX-8255 looks about perfect, very similar to the one I destroyed today. Probably better, though. Doesn't have a loudness button, but I don't think I was using it anyway. Gets good reviews. Shipped to my door $158, I'll probably go for it.

The 414 could go in my home theater room, but truthfully, I don't use my 5.1 much. I just listen with earbuds as a rule, well, for movies. For FM, it wouldn't matter much, except that maybe the Onkyo 414 would have a better tuner section.
 
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Lifer
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sdifox said:
I would drive the 50mi...
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Hmmm. I just had a good look:

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It's 5.1, I'm sure it's a great am/fm 5.1 AV receiver except that it doesn't even have S/PDIF support. Haven't looked at the manual but you can see in the pictures there of the back that there's no coax or optical in/outs. That nixes it for my HT room. It would work in my bedroom but is overkill. I'll consider it for that. 50mi... maybe. Still, that Onkyo looks pretty good, I doubt I'd regret getting that. I actually need another receiver for my downstairs, so maybe I'll get both. Thanks for the input!
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Edit: I see a couple of Onkyo TX-DS575 (one's the DS575X, a later model) selling for about $50 a lot closer to me (10-15 mile round trip). They support S/PDIF. Big muthas, (7" high), but I guess I could use one or both! Maybe I'll buy both, I could use two. Gotta have the remotes, though.
 
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I see a couple of Onkyo TX-DS575 (one's the DS575X, a later model)...

Fuck, neither of these guys have the remote! D:
 
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kornphlake

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Check pawn shops and thrift stores as well, it's so much easier than dealing with the clowns on craigslist.
 
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kornphlake said:
Check pawn shops and thrift stores as well, it's so much easier than dealing with the clowns on craigslist.
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Guess I should. The one and only time IIRC I've walked into a pawn shop was when I was 20 YOA. I bought my first guitar.

I liked those two Onkyo's well enough but no remote, not a total deal breaker if I want it in my bedroom to replace the one that fried yesterday 'cause I never used its remote, but if I buy an AV 5.1 receiver with 1/2 decent features I want to consider it for my HT room. The one I have in there now has a lot of features but they left out Treble and Bass controls, something I really like. They have some preset EQs to choose from but none of them satisfy me. I'm thinking if I get a different AV receiver in there I might actually use it for movies instead of my earbuds.

I should be in no hurry. I can shuffle around what I have and make do OK. I should wait until a deal or deals appear I like on CL or go into pawn shops and thrift stores until I score what works for me. I saw several receivers today on CL that looked OK for me, maybe not ideal. It's hard to say because I'm not thrilled with my AV receiver in my HT room as I said and I'm seeing receivers that may work better for me in there. That complicates this.

I have one requirement that's unusual in my home theater receiver: It has to be able to be controlled by a timer. I do programmed recording of FM broadcasts using software on a computer. The computer has audio coming from the receiver. The software has a scheduling feature. Thus, it starts recording at a preprogrammed time, stops the recording at another preprogrammed time. I don't want to leave my receiver on all the time, so I use a digital timer to turn on current to the receiver. So, it has to be able to have power removed and when power's resupplied, it has to be on and tuned in to FM. My current AV receiver does that and my next has to be able to do that.
 
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My coffee spilled receiver may be OK now after all!

I decided to try it again after a few days sitting around.

I hook everything up, turn it on and get a full sound left channel. I pot it higher and the right channel pops in too. This keeps happening every time I turn it off/on again. I brush, blow, fiddle. I think twisting that pot a number of times stopped that problem. Will it return? Who knows. Maybe this thing will be OK now. I still may buy a used AV receiver (with S/PDIF, remote, good specs and reviews) off CL, put the one I have in there downstairs. The thrift stores around here are a waste of time for electronic components, at least receivers. I've been in several of them dozens of times over the last 10-15 years and never saw a receiver that got my attention, and I would have noticed, at least the last 5 years.
 
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sdifox said:
was just talking about shipping cost.
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Well, I just got my old Teac receiver cleaned up good and proper and put back in place, did a bunch of spring cleaning in the process (man, dust can build up!), and it is working just like it always did AFAIK. Hopefully no quirks will come up. I didn't see an easy way to get at the bottom of the big circuit board to clean it.
 
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Dude111

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Im glad you got her working!!

Most things if they get wet WILL NOT WORK but when they dry,they are fine..... (Not all but most)
 
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Dude111 said:
Im glad you got her working!!

Most things if they get wet WILL NOT WORK but when they dry,they are fine..... (Not all but most)
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I had no idea. I realize that water is not a very good insulator, to put it mildly.
 
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