Sometimes you can be very let down......

[blu_fuz]

My mom found this gear at a rummage sale awhile ago. Brought it home and they couldn't get it to turn on. She tried selling it at her rummage sale and no one was interested so she gave it to me to get rid of.

Fiddled with the switches and found out that there is a timer on/off button for having the stereo turn on with the clock time pre sets.

Cool, it works! But she still doesn't want it.



The front of this Yorx M2608 is actually really beautiful with the dual VU meters, lit tuner window, digital clock, LED radio strength meter, light in the power botton, shiney and nice layout, but it is built like ****.

Cheap cheap cheap, with how good it looks I was thinking maybe it would be well built considering these sold for $700+ back in the day. I was let down. Speakers are sub-par too and start to distort with the loudness on, power boost button on, bass to 80% and volume at about 4-6 on the volume scale.



Looks too nice to junk it, so I will take the Fisher 492 off the shelf at work and put this up instead because the bass notes are better from this Yorx setup for low volume listening.



Take a look and enjoy.

 

[k2j]

I like it! Too bad it doesn't have a battery compartment and the speakers don't attach!

 

[Reli]

Dibs! That is an awesome looking layout, great LED's and knobs. Are they actually separate components, or just made to look that way?

 

[blu_fuz]

It is one unit, not separated components. It is still probably on of the better looking 'fake' component setups I have seen in person.

 

[Reli]

Maybe try it with some modern bookshelf speakers to see if it sounds better. Most are 8 ohm so it wouldn't be hard finding some.

 

[blu_fuz]

I'm already piecing a stereo and speakers together, I don't need another project

 

[Reli]

What does the power boost button do? Just like another version of loudness?

 

[blu_fuz]

Yeah, its strange because it acts like another loudness button. The sound quality is worse if you leave the EQ on, so I turn that off. The sound is really nice and clear.

 

[devol-toni]

It look nice
I kinda like the waved tuner scale and a numbered volume ring, in general, all that chrome It gives a touch of precious

 

[redbenjoe]

as the white dudes always say around the hood
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,GO YORX

 

[duckman]

The sound quality is worse if you leave the EQ on, so I turn that off. The sound is really nice and clear.

Just for shits and giggles, try zeroing out the EQ buttons. You can have the same curve, but lower all of them to net out or balance the gain at zero db (some above, some below, for eg ) and use the volume to turn it up. Too many people use the eq (sliders) to increase volume but the gain gets too high and distortion starts. That said, it is just a Yorx , but just for curiousity.

Btw, did you get to those tweets on the Yammies?

 

[jimmyjimmy19702010]

The speakers' 20 watts power handling is pretty low - maybe the York is just a gutless system. :-(

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Just for shits and giggles, try zeroing out the EQ buttons. You can have the same curve, but lower all of them to net out or balance the gain at zero db (some above, some below, for eg ) and use the volume to turn it up. Too many people use the eq (sliders) to increase volume but the gain gets too high and distortion starts. That said, it is just a Yorx , but just for curiousity.

Btw, did you get to those tweets on the Yammies?

I'm 100% with Duckman on this. 0 the eq, no loudness or power boost. Then add one at a time.

There might be something there. Remember the music being played when this was new was not as "High Performance" as it is today.

Sure looks good, too good to chuck!

 

[Reli]

Or, zero out the bass and treble knobs......or at least center them. Because otherwise maybe the EQ's are adding too much on top of that?

 

[Brutus442]

I own a Yorx boombox and I'm ashamed to admit it. If the build quality is similar to it....drop it off the closet pier and watch the fish avoid it on the way down.

Looks good, but working on it is like polishing a turd. Save you time for something of quality Joe...trust me

 

[jimmyjimmy19702010]

'Looks good, but working on it is like polishing a turd. Save you time for something of quality Joe...trust me'

Sounds familiar!

 

[Reli]

Depends on the Yorx. There's one Yorx that's identical to the Rising 20/20.

 

[redbenjoe]

Depends on the Yorx.

haha--there is something so profound in that expression
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and -i have also seen a photo of that 20/20 aka

 

[floyd]

i don't know how it's possible to be let down by something that's already at the bottom lol. that being said it sure is a nice looking unit . that thing would look nice built out into a custom box with that as the center section. hell if its working it would make a nice camping radio. i would not toss it because these are cheap but not all that common anymore.

 

[floyd]

i had an mcs system like that , looked great but damn the controls were horrid.