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Remember that this is a DC coupled design, and the servos can only deal with about 50mV of offset. DC offset is dependent upon power rail balnce aomong other things. Granted, once the offset is adjusted for a particular PSU rail delta, it should be stable. Since I build my own stuff, I'll take a sigma22 FTW. The ones I've built I have tweaked the neg. rail resistor values to get the delta within 10mV or so.

Since they don't have an online parts catalog, service manuals, etc. its pretty hard to determine. If they said that is what you need, feel lucky that it is only $83 and order it (it you think you can replace it yourself). While you had them on the phone, you should have asked about a service manual for this. Or are you going to have them repair it?

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Watching the show last year with the other Capt (Stig?) thinking he was having a heart attack or something (and chain smoking the whole time), I would say I agree that it wasn't exactly surprising. Still a shame though.

Yep. He was one of my favorites to watch on the show... funny guy.

The original Dynalo as well as the Dynahi supplies are tracking as well (neg. rail tracks the positive). The sigma22 does this as well. I have seen Dynalos powered by a pair of treads also.

It's an E+ and I already found the problem (pending testing). One other quirk about this is the power switch doesn't seem to want to shut it off? Switch comes out, but amp doesn't turn off; this one has the push button switches on it. Might have to replace it if I can figure out what it is. Thanks.

nm... charge was in the box... some dumbass didn't look hard enough

Kinda cool website I came across today. Lists snowfall totals for 1, 2, 3-7 days by state. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/recent.php?period=1&region=&submitted=Submit Sorry if this has already been posted.

^ True. A sgima might set you back almost as much as buying the HA-006+, but is a better PSU than what is used in the HA. How much difference it might make sonically? Unknown,and probably depends on a lot of things.

I'm working on a person's Minibox E. What do these things take for a battery charger (he didn't send it). I think I got it fixed (self-inflicted from said person "rolling" the opamps), but since the battery seems to be drained, I can't test it without a bit more knowledge. Any schematics for these floating around? Seems to be rather similar to a Mint (and therefore SR71, etc.), but no rail splitter... must be using a pair of Li Ion with the ground taken at the junction (3 wires coming off the battery pack).

^ a sigma22 could cure most, if not all, of that

Those use a Marantz SACD-M1 transport. Probably have to go thru Marantz to get one. I'd agree that I would call and bitch, particularly if it isn't that long out of warranty. Even if it is, for a player in this class. Laser shouldn't be an issue for at least 10 years, more like 20 for a good one. EDIT: link to an audioasylum thread on this http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=hirez&n=256745&highlight=sa-11s1

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Glad your power came back on! That is a bit of snow ...

OK, those look familiar. When you have a voltage selector such as Nate does, but a common dual primary trafo where your only choices are parallel or series connection, what do you do? 100V and 120V are really the same for this type of trafo (I think?). Or this trafo only supports 120V? Same for 220-230-240V?

Since you are in Hong Kong, you could also check thlaudio and vt4c as well. Nate: wiring. I guess I've never understood what is different between 100V and 120V, and between 220V and 240V in terms of the primaries? Nothing from what I can see? Its either parallel or series? Also, the datasheet tells you what switch contacts go with which position to the left of the diagrams.

^ Michael Percy Audio? They are the only ones who have the original stuff AFAIK. Vampire discontinued it because their supplier wanted huge orders (or something like that). I have no idea what guage would be appropriate? Percy has 20ga listed (in clear or red) at $2/ft. They also list 18ga in black or red. Would Neotech UPOCC be too stiff (solid core)? That might be a better choice if you are limiting this to "wonder wire"

Ditto x3. Hope your mom's surgery goes smoothly Bryan.

Current out DACs want to see an extremely low (i.e., dead short) input impedance on their output. Hence the use of the term "virtual ground" in the NAIM paper. If it were a voltage out DAC, you would be correct.

Whut? That doesn't seem right? Possibly an error in the writeup...

^ The CEO said that? Damn, he knows Dinny

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Sorry to hear that Bryan... my condolences to you and your family.