Power adaptor for Technics XP5

Whoa! I received the unique hand-made cable recently from c.fey (eBay handle) in Germany. It was £50 + shipping, and was very much worth it. This is to connect my SL-XP5 to an integrated amp SU-CD50.

Unfortunately, my XP5 does not work. The unit does not spin nor charge. The battery is stuck and can not be removed- even the latch switch is very hard to move. The unit does power on with its LCD screen showing all the icons. I could hear a click when it first powers on. Yeah, never buy an “untested” unit on eBay. I’m guessing the battery bloated and may have leaked to the components. Oh well. Time to open this up.

 

“Forced” to use my slim Sony NE-720 in its place. Still nice but not the same

 

That is a pitty unit is not working. To find a tested and working item is very difficult and price will probably be inadequate. Maybe you can check with the guy in Germany, he seems to know those players, maybe he can have a look at it. Mine is still at the repairman waiting to be looked at..

PS SU-CD50 is proper collector's item, I like it. Definitelly not as versatile as some micro hifi system, but really rare. I might be looking into some older micro hifi system from Technics (HD510, HD350 or similar) as they look just great and probably sound half decent. At the moment I have Sony CMT-EX1 and really like it. Materials are premium (aluminium, glass), design is never seen, it even has motion activated eject button. Got it coulpe of years ago for 20 EUR+shipping

 

i had to look this up, and what an amazing unit it is. The loading mechanism is just as impressive as its ejection. And optical out too for recording on a MD. $400-$500 here in the USA on eBay so £20 was quite a steal. Of course you can’t mention such a device without posting a pic!

 

Sure, here it is with half loaded Iron Maiden cd Speakers are actually from another Sony micro system HCD-SD1 - 2 satellite speakers plus subwoofer. This system was really beautifully show-cased in Sony catalogs when I was a teenager, I always wanted to own a set. Sound is disappointing, but they look beautiful and very extraordinary Original EX1 speakers sound much better.

 

Sick! Very nice indeed.

 

So the blue glowing cones are actually part of the speakers.

I have seen that CD Receiver (sat on top of the sub-woofer) many times on eBay but the speakers are something else

 

Cones actually have 2 functions - they glow when unit is on (not only blue, there are 3 RGB controls at the back of each speaker so you could change color to match your interior or mood Cones are matt glass) and work as a diffuser for drivers that are mounted on top of the speaker. That is the main drawback of these speakers - sound is very boxy (speakers are actually plastic) and spread out, not concentrated. Without subwoofer it is really bad, with it correctly setup sound is acceptable from further distance.

PS subwoofer base is marble. Probably unnecessary, but still nice touch

 

Hi. I was hoping you could guide me on how to rewire this adapter for 120v as you did. I have a technics sl-xp5 and this chinese adapter and would really love to be able to rewire it for USA so I can use the cd player. Thank you for any help. Edit. I found one of those cd22 retocon car adapters in the package. If that works with it then I won't need to rewire the Chinese adapter, I'll just use the car adapter.

 

The easiest and the cheapest, as always, is to buy 120-to-220 step-up transformer, they are sold on Amazon and eBay for ~$10.

But it is very easy to rewire the original adapter. You open it (it is held together by screws) and exchange the transformer. Transformer which worked the best for me is FS12-1000 by Triad Magnetics. Follow the instructions which come with the transformer:


Good luck!

 

Nice thanks for the detailed info and pics. I got the link saved to my notes. I tried the step up transformer however I might have messed up my adapter cuz I think I might have originally plugged it in to a 110v socket. When I tried the step up transformer I have my CD player display would turn on then go on the fritz and it would make noise through headphones like the instrument used for the star trek theme song (not sure what it's called) and the the display would fade out. I tried a few different step up to transformers and then figure that the CD player might have been meant for 110v and not 220v. I bought a recoton cd22 car adapter with a wall plug to car adapter adapter to try and see if that would power on the device. I really hope I can get it working.

 

You could not harm 220V adapter by plugging it into 120V. This was done by myself and other SL-XP5 owners - lower ac just gives you lower DC on the output

Either your step-up transformer is not powerful enough for the job (SL-XP7 and SL-XP5 Discmans draw almost 1amp during startup!)
or
Something is wrong with your SL-XP5