On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 9:19:37 AM UTC-4, thekma...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > The latest:   
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   > I've discovered that I can get center channel - for a while -   
   > by moving the speaker wire around in the center ch   
   > connector on the receiver.  Last night I stripped off an   
   > extra long length of wire, so as to bend it over to double   
   > the thickness.   
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   > That worked - last night.  This morning I turned it back on,   
   > and got center for about ten minutes before it cut out again.   
   > I fiddled with it some more, and discovered that by having the   
   > speaker wire(16AWG by the way) *barely in* the connecting   
   > terminal, with the locking tab left up, I get center pretty   
   > consistently.  If I pushed the positive in all the way - NO   
   > center.  If I jiggled it - intermittent center.  So we'll   
   > see how long it produces center with the positive barely hanging   
   > in there.  Different times of day, the center works, other times,   
   > not.   
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   > My original RX-515, which is still in my cellar, is definitely blown   
   > center, at the component level. No amount of jiggling or   
   > doubling over the copper strands is gonna pass sound through   
   > the center speaker with that thing.   
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   > And the sad part of all this is JVC is OUT of the home audio   
   > business!  Here they had a great mid-price surround-sound   
   > receiver for mid-1990s,  ample power, connections for TWO   
   > tape loops(great because I have an EQ on one and my   
   > tape deck on another), and a phono input.   
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   > I couldn't give two shits about HDMI inputs, bluetooth, and X.1   
   > digital surround if I can't hook all of my analog gear up to it!!   
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   >   
   > So I'm going to buy every remaining RX-515V out   
   > there, at least just for parts interchangeability.   
      
   Update - Overdue:   
      
   Early December, took one of my 515s to   
   a stereo repair place near where I work.   
   Basically every solder point on the   
   'mother' board needed redoing, and the   
   tech also adjusted the output bias.   
      
   Thing sounds like new, better than   
   new, again!  Tight, focused sound.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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