FS: Tandberg 1020A receiver

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FS: Tandberg 1020A receiver
« on: 20 Jan 2012, 02:24 am »
Tandberg 1020A receiver built in Norway in the mid seventies. These are very high quality units and have surprising nice sound quality. As these were a premium, imported product they were always rather scarce in the US and are even harder to find in good working condition today due to their age.

I believe this is a 40wpc unit. I'll post specs if I can located them.
The FM tuning works fine and pulls in stations with great clarity but the AFC function is not active.
The fine tuning meter works.
The tuning signal strength meter does not work. I believe this is due to the switch that also serves to use the meter as an output meter. This is the speaker selector switch, which works fine in its rotary functions for that but it doesn't seem to be making contact when pulled-out and sending signal to the meter.
The lights are all working on all meters, dials, and indicators.
There are only three inputs, Phono (moving magnet type), Tape 1, and Tape 2. All of these have been tested and are working fine.
I have not tested the tape-out functions or the Tape 3 input, which is a front panel, 1/4" stereo jack, like the headphone jack.
The headphone output works fine.
There is a hidden row of switches, mostly audio filters, that can be accessed by flipping down an aluminum door that runs across the lower front panel. These all work as do all of the knobs on the face such as volume, balance, bass, treble. The filters are a loudness function, stereo and mono switching, high filters, low filter, etc.
The cabinet, dial glass, and faceplate are in nice shape. The knobs could use to be cleaned well and the cabinets wood could use some polish.

$400