Vintage Equipment Restoration

At ERC, we appreciate the style and elegance of antiques. Over the years we have brought back to life various kinds of audio and video equipment whose components aren’t manufactured anymore. Our masterful engineers have discovered their own set of tricks to replace or reconstruct damaged parts so that your vintage item can bring you joy for many years to come.

Our team excels at handling all kinds of vintage equipment, be it your grandmother’s turntable or your good old reel-to-reel tape recorder. Some examples of items we repair include:

Reel-to-reel players and recorders

If you treasure your collection of tapes, our team will make sure that you keep enjoying the special sound of a reel-to-reel player. We have a complete set of alignment tapes for all speeds and formats. Our technicians have successfully fixed or replaced numerous drive belts, levers, linkages, roller pinchers, bearings, tape guides, heads, jockey wheels, and rubber idlers from even the oldest players.

Turntables

No modern technology can replace that special charm of vinyl. However, after decades of service even high-end turntables can go out of order. In that case, our technicians will fix and adjust calibration, suspension, stylus, belt, alignment, and more so that your precious artifact will again play music with the superior sound quality.

 

Amplifiers / pre-amplifiers

Hi-Fi audio enthusiasts know that old-fashioned tube-based amps have that unique warm sound quality. That’s why it is worth it to restore an old amp instead of buying a modern one. Our staff knows how to deal with all the various types and brands of audio amplifiers no matter how far back in time their date of manufacture is.

VHR players

Do you still have numerous VHS tapes from the early 2000’s? There is no need to discard those sentimental objects from the past, even if your VCR is broken. Our team can revive any kind of player. We will fix a failed power cord, replace a worn idler, clean internal parts, adjust tracking, fix defective color boards, and carry out any other necessary manipulations.

Some of the brands our technicians have worked with:

A & R Cambridge Accuphase Adcom AIWA Akai Arcam Audio Reflex Bang & Olufsen BNK Bose Braun Carver Celeste Cerwin Vega Clairtone Concord Dual™ Fisher Graetz Hafler Harman Kardon™ Jolida

JVC Kenwood™ McIntosh™ NAD™ Nakamichi™ Nikko Onkyo Panasonic Paradigm Phase Linear Pioneer Rega™ Revox Rotel SAE Sonic Frontiers Sony SunBrite Tannoy Teac Yamaha