Recent content by hifiaf

Easy to re-enable it with a dab of solder. I’ll listen for a while and see if I hear any difference, then re-enable if I don’t.

I disabled the SOA circuitry on the "modded" (Avondale PSU) 110 this morning, but didn't hear any immediate difference. We'll see if my ears pick anything up with other records. Semi-related question: Does anyone have a part source for the heatsink used for the NAPA boards on the 110, or one of...

That's what set me on this lastest journey. I wasn't expecting to like the 110 in comparison to the 135s, but it just sounded special: airy and exciting. The first track I played through the system with the 110 in place was Can's "Future Days," and I could barely believe it: a massive, charged...

Thanks — I’ll have to look into that! Excellent idea and I don’t mind swapping a few resistors and listening to the effect.

Yep, I've got the image below in one of my many note files, taken from @allen6266's contribution to this thread. Just snip the legs of those two diodes, I believe.

I'm about as locked into my crossover setup as a person can be: I built my own external crossovers... then potted them in epoxy! I do like the idea of a 4-pack of 110s... but not for now! I do plan to experiment with disabling the SOA on the 110s. Currently in place on both 110s. I'm...

In this thread, @misterc6 posted the below photo of a 110 conversion with what I think is a Hackercap doing its duty in a 110. Tight fit, but I think okay.

Last summer, I was looking for a 32.5 and a Snaps, and ended up finding someone selling both who threw in a Nap 110 for free. Since I had CB 135s at the time, I didn't even try the 110 until a few weeks ago, in a moment of idle curiosity. And what do you know: I liked the 110 better than the...

I should say that I have after reading reports like that of @matfff I ordered a Karousel of my own. It will be here shortly. I have a few little projects to wrap up first, but a Karousel vs. Cirkus+Tranquility shootout is coming up in the next month or so...

For what it's worth, I still think that a better solution would be to raise the tacho toward the platter by putting some blu tack underneath it, rather than lowering the disc toward the tacho by putting two-sided tape underneath it. Never experienced the issue with the platter failing to stop.

Yep, that's what I use -- I'd get some blu tack out and move the tacho around (and up and down too, closer and further from the underside of the platter) until it's steady...

I think by far the most likely issue is tacho positioning. Spend your time and effort there (after checking power leads as @matfff suggests above) and I think you'll get it sorted out. Use the brass piece as a guide for where to set the tacho (even if you don't use the brass piece), then make...

I don't see why the subchassis would have any effect at all. I happen to have weighted a Greenstreet and a Mober, and they both weigh about the same. My Greenstreet was 1.033 kg and the Mober 1.011 kg. https://www.hifiaf.com/three-lp12-subchassis/ I used a Greenstreet/Mober combination with...

Haha, I had no idea! I mean, I knew Mark had an Olive Snaps, but didn't realize its parallel backstory! Would it be immodest to suggest another maxim? Great minds...

Over the summer, I read lots of positive reviews of the RSL ZapCap. I also read that Kit Ryan thought a ZapCap sounded better (cleaner, faster, tighter) than a HiCap modded with his RSL PSM-1 module, because its smaller transformer (120VA vs 500VA) was actually beneficial to the tone. So I...