Khron's Cave

You know me, i can't pass up a silly-good deal when i see one. That's how i ended up grabbing the other week, two AKG small-diaphrag...

Right, so i had been on the hunt for the cheapest way i could get a 1x12" or 2x12" guitar cab for a while now - mainly because i l...

 A seller on eBay had had a couple of these units listed as faulty for a few weeks, and once i had a bit of spare cash, i decided to take th...

As a follow-up to the recently posted MOTU Ultralite teardown , i had to grab this as soon as it popped up in my search results, because it ...

In an interesting turn of events, i actually did NOT get this one as faulty. It was more to relieve one of my 828mk2 's from rehearsal-p...

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...

First of all, the main issue with using this stand-alone (without a computer) is that the Xmos controller only enables the analog power supp...

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 ...

Over on the Badcaps.net forums , a thread was started all the way back in 2010 , about power supply issues in these arguably "classic&q...

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...

Even though this is the 4th or 5th of these units that has gone through my hands, looks like i never documented a teardown of one - shame on...

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...

[[[ Repair can be found here ]]] This came up on eBay the other week as faulty - inputs 1/2 and outputs 1/2 seemingly dead. First instinc...

Aaaaand it's back! Not because of technical issues though. Due to chance, and the limited speed of international shipping, only the day ...