Help with a TEAC VRDS-9's digital out please

Hello DIYers,

I have just discovered that my TEAC VRDS-9's digital out card is dead. The rest of the CDP works fine, but I can't use it as drive.
Does by any chance anyone have one as spare part from an otherwise dead player?

Thanks in advance,
pics with part number here:



I have already searched the auction site.
Regards

Max

 

Hi Tony,

thanks for your suggestion. I took the player to a friend's audio store where his technician briefly checked that the two wires on the left (gray and brown) take power to the board and the ferrite-shielded two others take the digital signal. Both are active at the input, but the board is not working. No signal is present at either output - the optical and the coaxial.
So the next step would be to have someone (I am not sure that I can properly) check each contact to finally spot the failed solder or component. I plan to have it done by another technician friend, more and better equipped for the task.

M

 

Thanks Tony. I have contacted my friend technician (he runs the authorized service lab for Naim in Italy) and will drive to him with the TEAC next week. If the card is easy to fix, I plan to use the player with a Levinson 36S DAC that a friend is about to give me, astonishingly enough, for free. Working.

 

The square thing is the transformer for the coaxial output.

 

Hi,

thanks. I'm always amazed/amused by the sight of such simple, minimal contacts for 'precious' signals that are subjected, outside the player, to expensive cables and connectors..

 

Not much that can go wrong here. Find a competent tech that is really willing to help.

 

I repaired a TEAC with a dead digital output a few years ago. IIRC the optical output module had failed short in some way. I removed the module and then suddenly the coaxial output started working again. The owner didn't want to use the optical output and so I simply fitted a blanking plug in the casework and left it at that.

 

You're forgetting that before TEAC fitted those little grey cables they would have cryo-ed them and stuck them in a quantum field manipulator surround by shakti stones ;-)

Hope you get the TEAC running with your new DAC. What an amazing gift!

 

That would be a very good solution, because I too don't plan to go optical. I'll probably take the unit to a good technician on Wednesday. If I were more technically self-confident I'd try removing the optical myself..

 

Yes, indeed. I really hope the 36S is still working, it's been stored for some years it appears..

 

I'm certainly not saying that it's definitely the problem but it might be helpful to your tech.

 

Goes without saying. It would surely be one good way to solve the issue though, just removing a relatively useless part and the rest resurrects.. Thanks for the opinions and help anyway.