Recent content by Rick

I have been fiddling aplenty with cassette for about 4 years now, you can buy a lot out there in blanks at silly prices but so much I bought had dropout from age. The only reliable ones have been TDK type-I Maxell Type-II and Sony Metal everything else I bought had to go in the bin and what a...

Very sad, especially as the industry as well as numerous staff within the company tried to prevent this exact thing happening since 2018 already. Google "OceanGate Was Warned of Potential for ‘Catastrophic’ Problems With Titanic Mission" for an excellent NY Times article on it. I have a...

Hi I am around, just been taking it easy on the repairs due to my full-time job. I will help where I can.

Lamb Chop There has been lots of advice in this thread most of it suggesting "suck it up" However I disagree, I am in a similar situation where I am basically "on call" 24/7 even when home weekends - I teach and am available for my students 24/7 on WhatsApp and by phone out of choice and have...

Just used this technique this morning again I am always surprised how well it works, I use a little dish in the microwave and boil the heck out of it. The belt shrinks back to normal and originals shape.

I have a MkI and a MkII paid R5K each and that was 2 years ago, I disagree R3500 is a great offer for a legendary machine.

Enemy #1 with these is dust start with compressed air if you can. The tray needs a new belt (the CD in takes up some play allowing the mechanism to work with a marginal belt). The coax going silent can be related to a bad/dusty laser, once the error rate goes too high the system will mute the...

I knew they had been modded and saw the sticker but I never knew it was level II, I think that's pretty cool for you anyhow.

I had this problem for years when making speaker cabinets. you get it perfect finish only to your dismay to see the next day the joint. The expansion of the one panel against the expansion of say a 16mm thick piece don't match it changes with temperature and humidity. I am referring to butt...

You know not a day goes by without me reading of blown HDMI boards and HDMI not working. I have never ever had an issue because I turn all the equipment off and unplug when connecting HDMI cables (anoying but nescessary), it really is both a useful but fragile technology. Therefore I feel this...

Ok those images are rather small, just click on them will capture larger next time.

Thanks so much to Ken and Windshear I have a rough idea what I am looking at now. What I have learned is all decay should be around 160ms or less bass traps can be used to get rid of resonances low down, so I tried that. However walking around with a giant bass trap is making no difference  :o...

Smoothing was 1/6 and mic in listening position yes. Will do the Waterfall Graph. Thanks

So I finally got a Umik-1 (Actually for a DIY speaker project) but for the heck of it I took two initial sweeps of my listening room with the 0deg calibration file loaded - 0-20Khz, mic in head position one reading pointing at the RHS speaker and the second at the LHS speaker with only that...

Visually the EL-90 looks just like that.