Recent content by JonHarrison

Many thanks, I'll try reaching out to him.

Anyone ... ?

Just thought I'd chip in with a recent experience with Arcam. I contacted them because I was looking for a service manual / schematics for a CDS-27 SACD/CD streamer which has been discontinued for a good few years. In the good old days when they were a private company (i.e. pre Harman) they...

Hi all, Apparently Arcam now only supply service manuals and parts to 'professional repair businesses' ; even though I've been repairing Arcam equipment for the past 20 years I don't qualify. Can anyone out there help me out with a CDS27 ? Cheers, Jon

Hi Peter, I'm still happy to take a look at it for you. Get in touch ! Cheers, Jon

Hi Peter, sorry I didn't get a reply yesterday or today either here or via email :confused: Jon

Peter, did you get my private message ?

trancera, how do you find the bass with those 1uF coupling caps ? Some people I know use 1uF Evox SMRs too. I have some Wima MKS2-XL 10uF and 22uF which I plan to try in mine at some point ... did you find any problems with the OPA627 oscillating with no additional local decoupling ?

For reference to trancera's photos this is the rear left of the top (DAC) pcb. The phono sockets are just above the yellow circles. You can also disable the mute transistors by snipping the adjacent resistors (R15/R115)

Yes trancera, you are correct - the clock to the servo is fed from the top board so if the top board is missing / the 7220 digital filter is faulty the CD will spin out of control. 'griffin10010' can you post photos of the top board so we can see what modifications have been done to it, thanks...

Hi, If the unit has been modified to a similar spec to the Avondale units then the output muting transistors will have been removed - so that won't be the cause then. If you have no electronics knowledge then I suggest you find someone locally who can help you. There is not much more I can...

Ok, so the CD mechanism itself is ok, the player is reading the CD TOC (table of contents) and shows you a tracklisting, when you press play track 1 starts to play and the counter counts up. Is that all correct ? If that is the case then the decoder ICs on the mainboard are likely ok and the...

Got mine today too, cheers Mark :)

What is 'not working' about it ? Are you sure you refitted the laser ribbon fully and squarely into the plug under the mech and clipped it into place and refitted the motor and tray switch plugs ?

Please put me down for 24, money just sent via PP. Thanks.