Khron's Cave

I know it's been quite a while, but i haven't given this up! Life just gets in the way, i'm sure you know how it is... Regardles...

Yet another score from the "morgue" - this time around, a feature-packed little bundle of audio joy, namely a MOTU Ultralite mk3 H...

A couple weeks back, an acquaintance contacted me about his Axe-FX II suddenly not powering up anymore. I saw this as an opportunity to at t...

Perhaps a bit anachronistically, only *after* getting my hands on the previously-torn-down 2i4 gen2 , i also came into the possession of a 2...

Initially, i was thinking of getting and modding a Scarlett 2i4 to use as an updated and more flexible in-ear headphone amp, to replace my a...

Yet another eBay score - caught this one with a blown power supply. Blown, as in, skidmark inside the casing, circuit board scorched, tracks...

This summer's "already" been quite fruitful, gear-scoring-wise anyway. This find cost me a colossal 86eu, with allegedly none ...

For a little while now, i've been thinking of "upgrading" from my old-but-modded M-Audio Fast Track to use as an in-ear monit...

Despite having hoped to nab an Audient interface for some time now, only quite recently did i manage to get my hands on one. Since i'm a...

Boy, that's a lot of M's up there... But yeah, here's another eBay score, bought as faulty. Basically, because it was too cheap ...

Since relatively recently acquiring the MOTU 8M , once i got around to swapping it out for the 896 mk3 in my recording rack, i figured it mi...

Well, this one's a "biggie" - i had been lusting after one of these for a few years now, but the price was (and technically st...

Long time no see, eh? Well, what can you do when the new job's kicking you in the rear end? Regardless, new patient on the table this ti...

I had fiddled with one of these a couple years back, but here's another chance to take a look inside a (1st gen) Focusrite Scarlett 2i2,...

This just came in, with the symptom description of "will no longer turn on". Fair enough, sounds like a power supply issue then. A...

As it turns out, i hadn't done (or at least documented) a teardown of this little guy, even though i've been using it for the last t...

A local friend bought this slightly battle-scarred Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 off a buddy of his. The reported issue was some random / interm...

Yet another "sold as faulty" eBay catch - a nice little(?) Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 USB audio interface . Which turned out to actua...

Together with the pair of Konnekt x32's (one of which is dealt with in the previous write-up here ), i also got one of these Presonus Au...

Hunting for faulty stuff on eBay has been fruitful yet again: this time, a MOTU Traveler mk3 Firewire audio interface. The reported issue ...