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| Why don't any good CD players resume play? This is also a feature of car CD players and some portables. | |
| New amp being touted as among the best ever...... Completely lost interest once I saw Class D. IMO Class D is for tight budgets, Home Theater and car audio (no I haven't heard them all, but so far none have come close to the emotional level of my Scott 222D (that's a "D" I can live with!) | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 - Measerments v. Sound Convinced that we are still not measuring the parameters that are meaningful to determining good sound. Ever see a 1KHz square wave recorded on analog tape!!! (It's a cockeyed sawtooth at best, but nearly everyone loves analog tape's sonics). If i... | |
| Why CD players so expensive when the fomat is dead Still have NEVER downloaded a song. CD is alive and well in my home and car. | |
| Fixing a Broken NAD C320BEE In my experience, a "few blown capacitors" will be just the tip of the iceberg. Electrolytic capacitors blow for only a few reasons:1. Installed backwards2. Incorrect voltage rating for the circuit3. Extreme age (10-20 years), they dry out then ne... | |
| I need help bad It's a fire waiting to happen. The Motherboards of all Arcam AVR-2XX-3XX units cooked themselves to death along with those for the AVP700 which went 2x faster due to the lack of cooling vents in the top cover!Arcam service nearly died over that ba... | |
| Musical Fidelity Tri Vista SACD Elberoth2 is correct. I am US service manager for dCS and our P8i and Verdi Encore were also units left without parts for the same Philips Mechanism's. The Philips 5.2 Mech is a universal CD/SACD/DVD mechanism that is totally proprietary with its ... | |
| Can I replace/repair a Phillips SACD transport? My post had several early paragraphs cut off.What I had tried to say was that although Philips ceased supporting the 5.2 SACD/DVD Mechanism, at least there are some OPU's (Optical Pickup Unit=Laser Block) left and thank God the laser still fixes 8... | |
| Can I replace/repair a Phillips SACD transport? ..then any competent tech should be able to repair any of the Philips Screwed-over brands; EMM, MF, Accuphase and dCS (P8i and Verdi Encore).I am dCS US Service Manager and I repair Philips transports weekly (as long as it's not a motor, which in ... | |
| Do Old CD Players Require Servicing Like Amps? More so; any component with moving parts (disc drives, tape decks, etc) will require more service than an amp (unless the amp is poorly designed, incorrectly biased or RoHS compliant!).SACD's laser averages 2-4 years (at least for Sony and Philips... | |
| Mcintosh Volume control acting erratic As an Authorized McIntosh repair center, we have had more than 2 Optical Encoders fail (one in an MX-132 and another in a C2200 I seem to recall) and they reflect your exact symptoms when failing. Take her in for service and McIntosh will take car... | |
| DCS 1394 problem Pss,Make sure all 3 units are set for "1394ID=0".I am the dCS North America Service Center, by the way.Tel: (703) 349-6989Steve GeorgedCS America | |
| I Just Don't Hear It - I wish I did If you hold your 'hit' in so long you start to gray out, that is when you achieve total clarity. Ultimate tweak, I tell ya... | |
| Best Integrated Amp You Ever Heard? Own it: 1964 HH Scott 222D with 7189A output tubes (not EL84's) so I get true 22wpc.I am service eng for several super high end brands, and have yet to have this amp beaten by much at all with any level of separates. Something to be said for one l... | |
| NAD 370 capacitor source REPLACE ALL 4 AT THE SAME TIME. Also, I haven't seen too many power amps that had a B+ capacitor blow that didn't cause other damage, so bring her up slowly on a varaic measuring DC offset.Also the glue the factory puts on the bottom of the cap to... |