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HH Scott 350 fm tuner

Hi,
I just bought a Stereomaster 350 tuner in good working condition. I went to someones house to pick it up and he had it playing through his desktop sized speakers but that was enough to decide that it was worth the $100.00 price tag.
The problem that I had in setting it up is that my cable rca males are too large for the narrow and close together rca female inputs on the back of the 350 chassis. I was able to partially plug in the monster cable ends but I'm getting very low volumes so I had to turn up the volume on my ASR Emitter II all the way just to hear anything. I'd rather use the Monster Cable than a $3.00 cable from Walmart.
I'm wondering what other people have done to remedy this problem. My initial thought is to find extensions that will fit on the end of the Monster Cable but will also plug into the Stereomaster however my question being, which extensions and where do I find them?
Thanks!
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goofyfoot OP
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Thanks to everyone, I'm very grateful to have this source for information. I had no idea that the topic would end up taking a different direction from where it started but the documents that I've collected will be extremely helpful to both myself and my local technician.
I may post the tweaks and changes that were done once my radio has been serviced and I'll give my impression of its overall performance as well.
hifigeezer
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If you can stand the flames :-), Radio Shack made some very slim right-angle RCA adapters that are slimmer than the right-angle adapters on the market.  You can find them on Ebay if you are patient.  You could always use another source component to determine whether they make an audible difference.  Don't tell your friends the Scott has Radio Shack adapters; it will stop sounding good to them.

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@hifigeezer Good grief, this thread is nearly ten years old. Anyway, I'm able to connect a pair of RCA Monster Cables just fine. As for Radio Shack, they made some good things. They had a respectable turntable and a shortwave radio among others. They'd still be in business if they had continued building personal computers.

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