jwrosenthal
Super Member
Hey guys,
The Noble pot in my Music Reference Rm5 is flaking out. It was doing the occasional corduroy pants sound and now it's dropping a channel entirely and it takes me flicking or whacking the volume control sometimes to get it to come back. I hit the solder joints under the pot thinking maybe it had a cold joint, and it seemed fine for a few days and started dropping the left channel again.
So I was thinking of going with a Goldpoint as a replacement but realized (pic below) that I am very restricted for space. I have 2 Alps 100k blue velvet pots on hand, one is earmarked for a PAS rebuild (i always order two when I get parts like that), but would like to go with something nicer in this MR since it is in daily use in my favorite system.
The "better" ones that seem to be shallow enough to fit are the Blue Note and the TKD- both available at Partsconnextion. I'm not concerned with saving a few bucks if a product actually is better quality.
My first question seem stupid but are all stereo volume pots pinned out the same way? If the sizes are similar would it be a pretty easy desolder the old from the PCB and solder in the new?
Second, has anyone here installed one of the Blue note or TKD pots and are they truly a better product than the $13 Alps I have now (and mine are the Japan ones, not the fake China ones) ?
The Noble pot in my Music Reference Rm5 is flaking out. It was doing the occasional corduroy pants sound and now it's dropping a channel entirely and it takes me flicking or whacking the volume control sometimes to get it to come back. I hit the solder joints under the pot thinking maybe it had a cold joint, and it seemed fine for a few days and started dropping the left channel again.
So I was thinking of going with a Goldpoint as a replacement but realized (pic below) that I am very restricted for space. I have 2 Alps 100k blue velvet pots on hand, one is earmarked for a PAS rebuild (i always order two when I get parts like that), but would like to go with something nicer in this MR since it is in daily use in my favorite system.
The "better" ones that seem to be shallow enough to fit are the Blue Note and the TKD- both available at Partsconnextion. I'm not concerned with saving a few bucks if a product actually is better quality.
My first question seem stupid but are all stereo volume pots pinned out the same way? If the sizes are similar would it be a pretty easy desolder the old from the PCB and solder in the new?
Second, has anyone here installed one of the Blue note or TKD pots and are they truly a better product than the $13 Alps I have now (and mine are the Japan ones, not the fake China ones) ?
