The Stealth V3 streamer is finished. After a lot of assembly work and many firmware glitches, it now feeds another audio chain. Features multiple linear regulated power supplies, galvanic isolation for USB and Ethernet, large 7.9″ display for your living room. The board during assembly. Finished and ready for its Read more…
Manufactured in the 1992-1995 period, the NAD 106 is still a great-sounding pre-amplifier today. Despite the capacitors showing no sign of fatigue, they were 40 years old, so a recap-job was welcome. All power-supply electrolytics capacitors have been changed for 105° long-life versions. While the box was open I changed Read more…
A Panasonic SC-HTB510 was exhibiting unreliable behavior on the keyboard, and not responding to the remote control actions. Removed all screws, visual inspection… The flat cable connecting the main board and the keyboard was half out of the socket. Gently plugged in, all functions recovered, re-inserted into the casing and Read more…
Precisely, my model is a SL-1210MK2. After reading an interesting article on diyaudio.com on AC-noise inducted by the internal power-supply, I decided to modify my turntable to include a DC power supply, and so take the original transformer out of the chassis. Based on the design of the 6L6 user Read more…
After the crazy prices seen on the market due to the embargo on Russian tubes, I have decided to sell a few 12AX7 from my stock of Voskhod 12AX7VKA and Tung-Sol 12AX7 / ECC803-S gold pins. Only selling to individuals (musicians or music-lovers). These tubes are new and cryogenic-treated. If Read more…
Powering a Raspberry Pi and its 7″ display is not really easy, it needs strong cables, and better be at 5.1V than 4.9, unless you want to endure the “Low voltage warning” aka “Under-voltage detected!”. I assembled this player using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, the standard Read more…