Recent content by Tannoyed

A troll would not take the time to say things are good when they are so here goes. My Roksan has now been repaired by the company which now owns the brand -Monitor Audio. They had to change everything except the toroidal mains transformer and the case but it had obviously had a very uncertain...

OK Kandy it is but this is what I found last night so caveat emptor! It really was not good and I repair pcb's for a living, but what do I know? Incidentally I stopped posting precisely because of reactions like that so bye bye again see you in 2026

Wirewound!

I bought a candy 2 a few years ago. It has been ok until tonight when I was plunged into silence mid track. Sparky sparks coming from the power relay when switching on and off. Oh dear too much current going somewhere. I pulled it apart and surprise surprise a dead short on a complimentary pair...

Hello Is the sound from the faulty channel distorted or clean albeit very quiet. It seems unlikely that the output stage has blown if there is no distortion. Sounds like the pre-amp stages may be the problem. Does this amp have mechanical input selectors or does it use push buttons? Do...

Further further though If by some miracle and I am right and it is relay contact resistance, switch on and off with music playing at average volume-an arc with some current behind it will clean the contacts more effectively-not too loud though!

Further though take a cotton bud, dismantle the laser unit and gently wipe the surface of the laser lens-if you are lucky the lens will be visible without too much dismantling. I use a small amount of alcohol (IPA) as well but be careful as it may attack the lens surface-dry is better but less...

Hi I have a Sony unit of similar age which had a similar problem. A cat peed on it but that is not relevant here! If the disc does not load completely you will get error messages-try changing the loading belt which will almost certainly have perished after 20 years. Look on the CPC or RS...

A further thouigh-any relay in series with the power supply will starve the output stage of volts under load if the contact resistance is high. If there are seperate paths (double pole relay or 2 relays) for left and right channels then this would explain the effect being limited to one...

Here's a hoary old chestnut! I fall into the cheapskate camp. Use screened leads with metal (not necessarily gold) phono plugs so that the screening integrity is not compromised-wire thickness immaterial on signal connections. For speakers thicker is indeed better if you want all of those...

Hi It is rather difficult to establish what is wrong without the amplifier in front of me. I notice that in one of the subsequent posts, the repairer stated that a relay was faulty. Now I am making a few assumptions here but relays are often used to isolate the loudspeakers during the power up...

Hi Putting a cap across a motor does chop the transients down on a motor but here we have capacitive coupling between the supply and the sensitive input stage of a phono amplifier. Only a few micro volts would be sufficient to cause a problem that would be noticeable. After all full output is...

My dad had a Ferranti FM receiver with an input for ceramic cartridges (a prolific output and a sapphire stylus!) He used a Collaro Conquest autochanger with it. The radio I still have and use every day having refurbished it last year. It still works perfectly and it was made in 1957!!!

yes with a Goldring cartridge if I remember rightly! The good old garrard SP25!

Very possibly but this will do it for virtually nothing!