Pioneer SX-780 Repair – No Sound, No Relay Click

I recently picked up this Pioneer SX-780 receiver from a local record store. I brought her home, hooked her up and she powered on fine but there was no relay click and I couldn’t get any sound to play. Bummer.

I hit up the trusty AudioKarma message boards and found this solution and decided to give it a try.

In short, over the many years these have been operating, the solder joints on the voltage regulator run hot and develop cold/cracked solder joints.

I removed the old solder, cleaned the board, applied fresh solder and everything came back to normal!

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