NEIL A,
I'm impressed, more so if the on/off switch does not rub.
Though what perplexes me is that your capacitors seem unfatigued, your serial no. B0254 is only 18 less than mine (B0272) and yet many of my capacitors are bulging/erupting.
Have you left your unit powered on permanently, or do you switch on/off?.
Hi misterdog,
Yes, as you know the rubbing power switch, combined with the bending of the power input board, if you press it unsupported at the sides, meant it it was very fiddly to set up the runners. That was the beauty of the "BODGER AUDIO" method of adding the runners, taking them with my old soldering iron, after the board was inserted and the side supports drilled and added. I found that it was more a case of the switch rubbing top to bottom, rather than side to side. There was also the case of keeping the runners narrow, so the components on the board did not foul as it was slid in.
My MDAC has had little use, as not long after getting it my ATC tweeter's finally evaporated the last of their ferrofluid and I was waiting for the new ATC ones. 2 years later I gave up waiting for the new ATC tweeters, so finally got some interim Vifa's. During this period I lost interest in the "big Hi-Fi", the Mrs reclaimed the lounge (with her bloody Yamaha keyboard thingy!) and I was away for long periods.
I expect the real fault in my dCS DAC must be regulator / capacitor related, as it in now 20 years old and was left switched on for months at a time.
