Rotel RX 152 Tuner Amplifier

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. A video made to show a laptop playing music via a vintage tuner/amp and vintage jukebox wall box speakers I bought this second hand quite cheaply, a week ago as a back up for my aging vintage Leak 2000 tuner amplifier I use to power a lot of kit in our front room, (seen in a few of my other videos). It is in immaculate condition and sounds great. So was never used much. It would have been manufactured sometime between 1976 and 1981. This is my "office" ... alright then our tiny box bedroom. I was using a little amplifier to play mp3s on previous PCs and now a laptop through the speakers of my 1967 Rock-Ola 507 jukebox wall box. I bought this for a song 15 years ago. The chrome is immaculate with no sign of pitting at all. Unlike the two wall boxes in our front room, this wasn't working, as it had parts missing. So I put slightly bigger speakers in it and re-wired the original four 6v lamps in series to a 24v adapter and installed a switch for them under the wall unit I built a couple of decades ago. The centre panel was discoloured, so my wife found me a bit of black "sparkly" card from her varied stock used to make her decoupage cards, to fit on top of it. It needed a knew knob to turn the pages, which I recycled from an old tuner/amp. The chrome just needed a good polish. Like many with jukebox wall boxes, the title cards serve as a telephone directory for important phone numbers. I decided a might as well use the Rotel instead of the little amplifier as I'd also have the radiio, although that needed a bit of a re-vamp of the shelving to accommodate it. I'm quite pleased with the performance. But it could do with a better FM aerial. I'm impressed that when an mp3 track is closed down there's no "hum" from the Rotel, just silence, so unlikely that it has any failing capacitors, common with equipment of this age. OK. I'm never going to get hifi out of two tiny speakers and I have to use minimum volume, (I might have had it a bit too loud in this video), but when they are less than three feet away from me, it doesn't matter. It's just to provide when required a bit of music from mp3 files or YouTube videos, whilst I'm working on other stuff. The noise you hear on the recording will be from the fan on my laptop, or my little Lumix camera. I've since purchased another Leak 2000 tuner/amp and a pair of bookcase speakers, the Rotel has been sidelined for now.

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