Khron's Cave

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...

 Ok, this is gonna be a bit of a quickie. Basically, i got this one ridiculously cheap as well, with the intention of repairing it and gifti...

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...

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...

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...

  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...