happens often, Very Often!! :( Rubber pad(s) from the Discman fuse with the pained battery plate. Brute force won't work, and you have to...
My personal opinion - it is the best Discman with 1-bit DAC. Boxed units sell for crazy $$ to those who still believe that 1-bit DACs is the best...
My personal preference is No Dolby at all. For when I want to listen to the silence between tracks instead of the music itself I have CDs and...
correct, all batteries are dead and any attempts at rejuvenating old cells by injecting them with water or acid is a total waste of time! You have...
Crown CD-110 was reviewed in 2023 (!!!) by Hi-Fi News: Crown CD-110 CD Player CD-210 is basically the same player with a radio. A few months ago...
the idea is to observe laser mechanism and laser lens when you hit PLAY button. maybe you do not have to remove anything, I dunno but the...
Stop doing that!!! Just use air blower, but Not compressed air cans! until my day-job moved whole into Genomics, microscopy was my main 'tool of...
looks like it! @Cassette2go made a side-step towards those beautiful RT-8900 Toshibas, and I found a photo of a bbox which in 2008 started me onto...
when reviving Discmans I actually hate Panasonic idea of printing resistors into the mainboard: leaking batteries or electrolytics destroy not...
Answer depends on who you ask. Personally I never paid much attention to such technicalities. Laser mechanisms, multibit vs. delta-sigma DACs,...
here is my Toshiba RT-8700S, present from my good friend @Boodokhan. At first glance it looks like a respectable medium-size AKAI-style boombox...
Mono Sharp GF-3700, donated to me by @Longman ... Once again, Million Thanks!!!, this one is my beer-buddy :) [ATTACH] National RQ-568, keeps me...
SL-1200 is what I have too, ever since my Keel-ed/Naim-ed Linn Sondek burned and went to analogue heaven...
@Normo - welcome! WM-D3 is a great find, and 10k+ of records - Wow!!! What is your favorite turntable?
if there is one thing folks at Naim Audio chatroom agree upon it's that a few drops of Scotch improve Sound Quality quite dramatically :) My own...
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