Khron's Cave

So this Cymatic LP-16 16-channel backing track player came in the other week, from a loyal and "repeat" customer, with the descri...

And here we are, on the third and final(?) part of the modding journey involving this little fella. As presented in the previous post , i ma...

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...

  And now, getting back to the issue affecting this unit... As pointed out in the ad, the LT3439 apparently used to have a piddly little h...

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 was considering making the previous post about the repair as well, but once the teardown part of it was done, i decided it had gotten lon...

What with winter drawing closer, and the days (as in daylight) getting shorter up here in the north, one tends to need to turn on the lights...

A few years ago, in the quest for more storage space, power saving, weight reduction and eliminating sensitivity to shock, i decided to upgr...

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

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

A good buddy and neighbour of mine had one of his amps kick the bucket in the middle of a gig (one i was helping out on, as well). On the br...

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...

This little bugger, an M-Audio / Avid Fast Track C600, was listed as faulty on eBay - description said it would no longer power up, regardle...

Since the "unofficial" theme of this blog seems to be repair, recycling and repurposing (more or less), i finally got around to ge...

This one's a quickie, but i figured i might as well document it. A friend passed me this a few weeks ago, not quite sure why. I don...

I got my hands on one of these Behringer Ultragain Pro-8 Digital a few months ago, as faulty (as in, totally dead) for about 50$ shipped. H...

<Some sort of continuation from another post > Buuuuut that brings us to what might as well amount up to the proverbial "eleph...