Wow! I am talking to a Dude who knows Mikey: I am almost famous!!!!! :)
Ha! I have no idea what you are talking about, but already feel Old about that o_O... and silly me, those are not JBLs, now with my reading...
Someone has to approach Mike Fremer to push cassettes onto a mainstream audio! Why Not???!!!
Now we know who is hiding behind your mighty JBLs ;) I have to hide my toys from The Boss in my Lab, but she is ever vigilant: pops up at some...
Very interesting! All Sony AC-930A adapters that I saw were held together by two screws. I have three AC-930A on my desk right now, you do not...
One Discman per week: I Love your ambitions!!!!!! With my favorite Sony D-90 it is doable, once you get a stash of motors and center-gears:...
That famous photo with Medvedev and Putin sharing shots of milk has a nice Naim Audio stereo as a backdrop... Not TOTL Naim, to my surprise, but...
Oh, YES!!! I had completely different plans for the evening ((bought myself another 'unobtanium' Sony Discman, D-10 which flatly refuses to power...
[ATTACH] A present from St.Nick, @nickeccles has arrived!!! :):):):):):):):) Elephant the Second :bigthumbsup: Beer'n'Boomboxes is being...
I press Pause a few times before playing a tape: feels like some switch got oxidized. But it makes total sense not to overuse Pause button during...
Good point, maybe it is a vibration from pressing PAUSE which fixes the grudge, Thanks!! When I free enough desk space to open a bbox I will check...
Ha! from the perspective of the house itself, this might be its only chance :loldiag: And Yes, I can guess what you are talking about. When I...
I would start with R ch wiring from the head to preamp section, sounds like a short or dead bypass cap there... Do we have a SM for CRS-400? I...
7.4V? Where? But looks exactly right for recharge voltage and myguess ‘6V to 7.4’ is a typo for 9-7.4? And YES, DC-DC converter gets seriously...
Thank you, my friends!!! Right now I have three Discmans seriously tinkered by previous owners, trying to revive at least one to restore my...
All original 9V transformer-based converters give 13-14V without load, this is normal. And if you compare them with modern 9V DC switch-mode...
[ATTACH] yet another Birthday for my lovely-self, this year celebrated at my Lab: my house, burned by Woolsey Fire is still, well, burned and my...
Absolutely ALL first-gen Discmans are sensitive to bumps/shocks! But if you want to check if yours is ‘up to specs’ then play CD-R or a skip-test...
Welcome aboard! This here is the only place where I can talk about my love for Discmans and recently we are seriously polluting S2G analog-lovers...
Shame it is! For when new lasers were officially available for a few bucks it was a common knowledge to buy a new laser if Anything went wrong...
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