Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi,

I'm robert, now 40 yrs old, studied electronics/telematics in the 90's. My first computer was a sinclair ZX-81 (4 kb memory), quickly followed up by an extra memory pack of 16kb (!), that was norously badly connected to the system, causing a lot of crashes, after that i moved from sinclair spectrum, msx, commodore vic20, commodore64, commodore amiga 500, amiga 4000, msx-2, doing some coding for the then very alive 'demo' scene in assembly on Z80/6502 processor. After that i got to 286,386,486sx, 486DX4, pentium...

Re: sony STR-AV310

Hello 370ForLife,

I have exactly the same receiver as you (if you still use it), and also the same buzzing problem, for years i have been wiggling the connectors in the back to get rid of it for time to time, with mixed success. However this is a european version, bought originally in Holland.
I am very interested to know what type exactly you used for replacing the 2SD1585 (with the sanyo one), so i can cure this problem for good. Also quite recently the tuner stopped getting any signal and i suspect the Front End or the IF amplifier. Most...