Re: Repairing my Sony 2010

[Dane Trethowan]

Okay, I don’t think its a question of how big Sony is, more a question of 
whether one can get parts for the radio any longer and - given the fact the 
ICF-2010 is a 30 year old radio - you’re not likely to receive much from Sony, 
perhaps a bag full of sympathy and a huge smile from one of their sales reps.

So what to do? Dealing with older products myself, the first suggestion is to 
find a local High Street repair shop that wants to earn a bit of money on the 
side as many do.

In short, these shops touch the sort of stuff the big company’s won’t.  For 
example I have a 10 year old Yamaha receiver here.  The display stopped 
working, I took the receiver back to yamaha and - after 15 weeks of total 
silence from them - I finally found out that the faulty piece of ribbon wire 
was not available any longer, $89 just to find that out thanks very much.

So I then went to a little reaper shop I know of as a last resort, I’d rather 
have the receiver working than throw it out.

The chap at the shop hand crafted a piece of ribbon wire to fit the faulty one, 
receiver now works as good as ever.

I’m actually watching a couple of Sony 2010’s on eBay as I’m thinking of 
purchasing one for my own personal use but I’m not in any hurry.

Sure, they were wonderful receivers particularly on AM and Shortwave - bloody 
horrible on FM - and they’re classics but age is the enemy, over 400 
electrolytic capacitors to replace in those things, dry joints to fix and so 
on, given all that you’re damn lucky you only have a faulty antenna connector 
to deal with .


> On 5 May 2016, at 9:00 AM, Donald L. Roberts  
> wrote:
> 
> Although I seldom listen to short wave any more, I love my old Sony 2010.  
> Unfortunately, the whip antenna is not making good contact with the rest of 
> the set and needs to be replaced.  Sony is a big company, and I have no idea 
> how to find the appropriate part of the company which can repair this thing.  
> Does anyone have any meaningful contact info?  I doubt that I can find anyone 
> local to deal with this.
> 
> 
> Thanks for ideas.
> 
> 
> Don Roberts
> 
> 

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Repairing my Sony 2010

[Donald L. Roberts]

Although I seldom listen to short wave any more, I love my old Sony 
2010.  Unfortunately, the whip antenna is not making good contact with 
the rest of the set and needs to be replaced.  Sony is a big company, 
and I have no idea how to find the appropriate part of the company which 
can repair this thing.  Does anyone have any meaningful contact info?  I 
doubt that I can find anyone local to deal with this.



Thanks for ideas.


Don Roberts

Re: Sound forge and Win 10

[Dane Trethowan]

You've got it over me there.


I've hardly ever recorded in Sound Forge and I remember the dialogue you 
speak of in the early days, that put me off completely and I never got 
good recording results when using Sound Forge anyway hence me prefering 
to use Total Recorder for recording, I think I started using the 
Standard edition of total Recorder back in 2003.



I had to do some editing using Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 some months 
ago, I was working with FLAC files and the whole process of using those 
with Sound Forge was just so slow compared to anything else I had on the 
Windows or Mac machines, I gave up in the end and used Goldwave for the 
editing tasks.



Now of course I'm speaking here of Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 and not 
Sound Forge Pro 11, there may be some differences in the way files are 
handled but I'm lead to believe that file and formatting handling is 
exactly the same regardless of the Pro or Audio studio.





On 5/05/2016 6:05 AM, Hamit Campos wrote:

Eah and in 11 you just hit Control R and bam you're recording. Not Control then 
that diolaug thing and you now have to hit Alt R. No just Control R. I've tried 
11 and it's epic.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
Trethowan
Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 12:38 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: Re: Sound forge and Win 10

I’m obviously missing something here, why would anyone just want to create 
possible problems for themselves using something that was never ever designed 
to run with Windows 10 in the first place?

I’ve not been able to find a release date for Sound Forge 7 so I’m guessing 
when I say that software came out in around 2005 so therefore we can assume 
that it was designed for Windows Xp use.

It will probably work under windows 10 but then again it might not, the Windows 
10 compatibility wizard will tell you more but again, sound for 11 I think 
we’re up to now so why not use that?

Been a good while since I bothered with Sound Forge, I bought the Pro years ago 
but just haven’t bothered to upgrade it, I use Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 if I 
have to bother using Sound Forge at all and that seems to work fine under 
Windows 10 as I’m sure does Sound Forge Pro 11.



On 4 May 2016, at 6:53 PM, Isaac  wrote:

I know that 8 9 and 11 work under 10
- Original Message - From: "Peter Scanlon" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:58 AM
Subject: Sound forge and Win 10

Does anyone know if Sound Forge 7 will run on Windows 10?



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RE: Sound forge and Win 10

[Hamit Campos]

Eah and in 11 you just hit Control R and bam you're recording. Not Control then 
that diolaug thing and you now have to hit Alt R. No just Control R. I've tried 
11 and it's epic.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
Trethowan
Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 12:38 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: Re: Sound forge and Win 10 

I’m obviously missing something here, why would anyone just want to create 
possible problems for themselves using something that was never ever designed 
to run with Windows 10 in the first place?

I’ve not been able to find a release date for Sound Forge 7 so I’m guessing 
when I say that software came out in around 2005 so therefore we can assume 
that it was designed for Windows Xp use.

It will probably work under windows 10 but then again it might not, the Windows 
10 compatibility wizard will tell you more but again, sound for 11 I think 
we’re up to now so why not use that?

Been a good while since I bothered with Sound Forge, I bought the Pro years ago 
but just haven’t bothered to upgrade it, I use Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 if I 
have to bother using Sound Forge at all and that seems to work fine under 
Windows 10 as I’m sure does Sound Forge Pro 11.


> On 4 May 2016, at 6:53 PM, Isaac  wrote:
> 
> I know that 8 9 and 11 work under 10
> - Original Message - From: "Peter Scanlon" 
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:58 AM
> Subject: Sound forge and Win 10 
> 
> Does anyone know if Sound Forge 7 will run on Windows 10?
> 
> 

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Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the 
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Re: Sound forge and Win 10

[Dane Trethowan]

I’m obviously missing something here, why would anyone just want to create 
possible problems for themselves using something that was never ever designed 
to run with Windows 10 in the first place?

I’ve not been able to find a release date for Sound Forge 7 so I’m guessing 
when I say that software came out in around 2005 so therefore we can assume 
that it was designed for Windows Xp use.

It will probably work under windows 10 but then again it might not, the Windows 
10 compatibility wizard will tell you more but again, sound for 11 I think 
we’re up to now so why not use that?

Been a good while since I bothered with Sound Forge, I bought the Pro years ago 
but just haven’t bothered to upgrade it, I use Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 if I 
have to bother using Sound Forge at all and that seems to work fine under 
Windows 10 as I’m sure does Sound Forge Pro 11.


> On 4 May 2016, at 6:53 PM, Isaac  wrote:
> 
> I know that 8 9 and 11 work under 10
> - Original Message - From: "Peter Scanlon" 
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:58 AM
> Subject: Sound forge and Win 10 
> 
> Does anyone know if Sound Forge 7 will run on Windows 10?
> 
> 

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Re: Sound forge and Win 10

[Isaac]

I know that 8 9 and 11 work under 10
- Original Message - 
From: "Peter Scanlon" 

To: 
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:58 AM
Subject: Sound forge and Win 10 



Does anyone know if Sound Forge 7 will run on Windows 10?