EP#154: Reclaiming Audio Equipment with Cliff Schecht

• Cliff Schecht
  • An electrical engineer with a masters degree
  • Spends his days rescuing vintage gear
  • Is the CEO and operates Reclaimed Audio
  • Reclaimed Audio offers repair and restoration services on audio, radio, and test equipment from the turn of the century through current state of the art
• Restoring Vintage Audio Equipment
  • How to restore equipment and keep it true to original design, but get it ready for another 20 years run time
  • Rebuilding power supplies on tube units for example, but not changing the audio path topology much
  • Tips and tricks with test gear
  • Properly evaluating a piece of unknown gear
  • How to restore vintage electronics
    • How old is old enough to consider restoration/recapping
    • When is it ok to power up? How do you power up vintage gear?
  • Any myths you have debunked?

Tags:  Audio Repair, Capacitors, Cliff Schecht, electronics podcast, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, Reclaimed Audio