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Stereo help needed - NAD receiver

I dug out an old NAD reciever along with Advent Prodigy mini-tower speakers from the mess in the basement. I hooked this forgotten gem up to have some music in my workshop, but for some reason I'm getting nothing out of the speakers. When I touch the metal half-loops ("pre-out/main in" on the back of the receiver) I do get a low-tone growl out of the speakers, but that's it. I do get AM/FM reception in the basement becuase the reciever is locking on to stations. Just wondering if the reciever is fried because it's been sitting un-used for a good 12 years until I plugged it in yesterday.

I found a photo/description of the NAD model that I'm trying to fix. I think this is exactly like mine, and it shows a photo of the loops that I touch to give the growling sound:

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Pauli G
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monitor switch setting ?

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N_Cook

If you are getting hum from the pre-amp to amp connections when you touch them that suggests the amp section is ok. Bad connection on a selector switch or tape monitor switch maybe. Try exercising the switches some. Plug a rca cable into some of the other source jacks, touch the center post of the other end and see if you can get hum on any other input. Or hook a cd player up to it.

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JamesGangNC

First place I'd be looking also. Tape monitor / direct switch, or speaker select switches, or if none of these, work a jack in and out of the headphone socket a few times, just in case there is any switch attached, which has developed oxidised contacts from it standing unused.

Arfa

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Arfa Daily

Good advice...and while the OP is exercising the headphone jack, it would be good to check for signal there as well. Use, uh, say headphones....

jak

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jakdedert

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