In order to verify the vintage capacitor collection I slowly attained all perform to spec, I started to look for capacitor analyzers. The most well known is the Sprague TEL-OHMIKE series. Trying to find one of the Sprague designs at a reasonable price is difficult though. The TEL-OHMIKE brings $175-$250 on Ebay and I wasn’t […]
Procedure For Mounting Transformers (One of Many Ways) for ES9038Pro DAC + Amanero
I have the ES9038Pro DAC playing both DSD/DSF and the more well known, high res capable codec, FLAC. Except on this DAC it goes up to 32 bits and 384 kHz!! Not to mention you can play all audio codecs in DSD native through a foobar2000 plug-in conversion. I have placed a piece of paper […]
IT’S ALIVE!!!
Finally have the DAC OLED screen coming on and the Amanero is recognized in Windows!
Sansui AU-517 Works!! (Schematics & More Inside)
Thanks to Hifiengine.com I was able to get my hands on the official service manuals and the owners manuals + every schematic!! HiFiEngine is free to register and after that you can download their entire catalog if you wanted. This gives you details on where to put volt meter terminals and check the biasing for […]
Hello there Europe & Asia!!
Below is a traffic insight map from one day of views on my site (Nov 25th, 2017). At first I was confused, but then excited about the fact people across the world are making it onto my site, regularly actually. I just wanted to give everyone out there in Europe and Asia and surrounding areas […]
More Sansui AU-517 Internal Shots
For being 39 years old, this amp is nearly spotless inside. I’d venture to say it may have been opened once before I inspected it myself. Keep in mind that this thing was on the way to the trash compactor (when it had space), my friend found it before that point and grabbed it. Every […]
First Amp Donation! Sansui AU-517
To my surprise someone donated a Sansui AU-517 to me for free, thanks again for that! Here we have a stereo amplifier that weighs in at 40lbs! This behemoth is highly regarded in the vintage audiophile communities, with many of these bringing $100-$200 broken! I am looking forward to giving this baby a run with […]
One More Speed Bump.. (ES9028Pro vs. ES9038Pro Power Requirements)
Once again the values needed for the power to the DAC have changed, waiting yet again on the correct transformer.