Save On Sound Electronic Service

Took in an old reel to reel that my wife bought new in the late 1980’s, a Pioneer 707. We played it a few times many years ago and it worked but had a lot of tape hiss so I never fooled with it much. After seeing similar ones on e-​Bay for $ 500 or more I decided to take it in for a tune up, cleaning and head alignment. When we got it back I was amazed. I have never heard a reel-​to-​reel sound so good. The tape hiss is non-​existent. I’ve heard a few tape decks over the years and this one sounds the best. The fellow at Save-​On-​Sound explained all the problems he found and seems to know tape decks very well. Overall a very good experience. Very

I have two vintage Sansui receivers. Both were having somewhat similar issues with losing a right or left channel. Troubleshot enough to realize that it was probably an amp in the receiver and brought it to Tom to diagnose. He recommended rebuilding the boards at a cost of about $ 600-​$ 700. I paid, expecting the problem to be fixed. When I brought them home, problem still occurred. Tried troubleshooting with new speakers, different speaker wires, different TTs, several different external devices on different inputs, headphones, etc. Problem still linked to receiver. Took equipment back 3 times. He would «fix» something and it still occurred when I got it home. Finally took my entire audio setup to him. He had it a week and said he’d cleaned a switch and everything was fine. Brought it home and it occurred again.
Wasted a lot of money and time going back and forth. Would not recommend his services.

Paid $ 30 for them to look and confirm what I said was the issue — this amount didn’t apply to repair cost. Total repair cost was an additional $ 303, after less than 20 hours of use problem returned.
Don’t waste your time or money with this establishment.