Hello again! Christmas’ approaching with giant steps and I finally have some free time to write again. After sitting on my desk for a short while, here are the remaining steps for the restoration of the Dual CS 606 record player. For those of you who haven’t read the first part: Dual 606 record player – Restoration (part 1).

In this second part we will focus on getting the electronics up and running again. This involves replacing all the capacitors and checking/cleaning the pots, switches and finally checking solder joins.

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If you read the very first article on this blog you might have seen that I’m rebuilding old record players. And lately I just started over with my third one; it’s a 1980 Dual 606. Back then it was a mid-range player, but much of the hardware was taken unchanged from the high-end equipment, most notably the drive-train (more on that later).

On a first sight the device was in a very good condition when I received it, but there were some issues with the electronics – rather common for devices this old – which had to be fixed. The first part of this series of articles is about technical details and how to break the turntable open. Continue reading