Our first effort in restoring the Marantz 4220 replaced the caps on the regulator board and the phono board, pretty simple stuff. But the power amp board promised to be trickier to work with given the space limitations in the undersized chassis. Here's a gander from the left side of the chassis, heat sink backing the amp board. Buried down at the bottom is a metal sandwich around the 8 Toshiba 2SC790 output transistors.
The amp board put up a tussle but eventually was exposed enough to work on, although not easily. The still attached wires and the dangling outputs (don't break!) made for slow going. A total of 19 caps were replaced with Panasonic FCs:
The outputs had little black pads glued on them to seat them in the heat sink sandwich. Cute. And note the Toshiba TA7109P IC drivers, rare, but can be purchased from Acme if needed.
The driver board was re-sandwiched and replaced and we gave it a listen... and it was still weird. Weak in one channel, with odd behavior from the balance sliders. And the FM was barely there.
Ominous music swell from an unseen and properly functioning sound system (no, not Li' Mar) ... And here is nothin' but trouble:
Yes, time to mess with the preamp. Something is wrong with the tone control board. Lots of little caps in a very cramped space, with too many wires limiting your room to maneuver. Nothin' but trouble. But we will have to await the next episode of the Perils of Li'l Mar to see if our intrepid tech survives.
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