Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I hooked up another Sony tonight, since the other one I previously posted got a three hour workout. I guess this will get a couple hours since I’ll be up for a while.
Here’s the Sony STR-D2010 from 1989. This one is quite powerful at 130 W per channel, and also has a more extended spectrum analyzer.
I bought this for 4.99 at Goodwill in Glendale Heights, Illinois during Covid. I would consider this high hours, it always worked from the get-go, but upon inspection, I couldn’t believe how many soldered joints needed to be reflowed. Basically bumping it would cause the speakers or things to start in stop working, including the display. It was always temperamental and intermittent until I cracked it open and pulled things apart. Heat appears to be trapped, and this one baked in its previous life.
There were two large power filter capacitors that needed to be replaced as well. They were bulging.
So after spending time on this a while back, it’s working perfect.
The demo tonight here does not include the coaxial or optical inputs, but it does work with those pure digital sources and this was extremely rare at the time for 1989. Somebody would’ve paid a heck of a lot of money just to have those type of inputs. It was not until the 15 years later - the mid 2000s when people were actually using and optical inputs.
For your enjoyment also is another AI song. Novelty, but might not get me blasted for copyright.
I hooked up another Sony tonight, since the other one I previously posted got a three hour workout. I guess this will get a couple hours since I’ll be up for a while.
Here’s the Sony STR-D2010 from 1989. This one is quite powerful at 130 W per channel, and also has a more extended spectrum analyzer.
I bought this for 4.99 at Goodwill in Glendale Heights, Illinois during Covid. I would consider this high hours, it always worked from the get-go, but upon inspection, I couldn’t believe how many soldered joints needed to be reflowed. Basically bumping it would cause the speakers or things to start in stop working, including the display. It was always temperamental and intermittent until I cracked it open and pulled things apart. Heat appears to be trapped, and this one baked in its previous life.
There were two large power filter capacitors that needed to be replaced as well. They were bulging.
So after spending time on this a while back, it’s working perfect.
The demo tonight here does not include the coaxial or optical inputs, but it does work with those pure digital sources and this was extremely rare at the time for 1989. Somebody would’ve paid a heck of a lot of money just to have those type of inputs. It was not until the 15 years later - the mid 2000s when people were actually using and optical inputs.
For your enjoyment also is another AI song. Novelty, but might not get me blasted for copyright.
