Khron's Cave

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

I got this handed in by a local friend the other day. It was apparently bought in Singapore a good few years ago, hasn't been used in qu...

Ebay strikes again - this time, a pretty damn cheap (to acquire) M-Audio Profire 2626 Firewire audio interface. I maintain it's still th...

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...

We're having a "productive" period, as it turns out. This time around a TC Electronic Digital Konnekt x32 audio interface / d...

Yet another sold-as-faulty eBay catch - a nice little Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 DSP Firewire audio interface. The listing said: "I bo...

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

By sheer luck / accident, the other week i refreshed my Facebook main page (or "news feed" or whatever), and the first thing i saw...

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...

A local buddy just brought this German beastie in, citing a dicky DI output, and an unhealthy-sounding fan. Well, when i say "German...

Right, so i had been on the lookout for a cheap docking station for my Dell Precision M4800 for a while, and the other week i stumbled acros...

I know, it's a bit of an uncharacteristic topic for this (sort of a) blog, but despite the curve-ball thrown here, bear with me. It'...

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...