My radio loses stereo lock on bass signal?

Question

I have a Sansui T-1110. Whenever there is a song on the radio with a bass drum beat, on each beat the tuner will lose the stereo lock (indicated by the LED) and get it back when that bass sound is gone. Otherwise the reception is perfect on that station, and when I flip the radio into mono mode it works just fine. If anybody has any suggestions, let me know.

Answer 1

Wow....that's 16 years old....

I suspect your capacitors are drying out and the 12 Volt power supply isn't filtering as well as it did, and the bass tones are really sucking down the 12 volt line on that unit....

Get new caps and it'll return to normal....