Khron's Cave

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...

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...

The practical side of this one was performed and documented a couple months back, but since i've had this back-log to work through, the ...

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...

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...