Recent content by ladyaria

Awesome. Been wanting to get this one.

Was just playing my Tubular Bells album yesterday!

"To Aunt Kim & Uncle Mac- Well it took a long time but I finally got on the front of an album -- all I've got to do is clean up after concerts -- all kidding aside - I'm happy and feel fortunate Better Go! Love Ruell" (Ruell Chappell)

Wow a Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs Original Master on what is considered by many to already be the best studio recording ever made!

Unfortunately I tried simply pulling that socket off and it won't budge- I was afraid of pulling too hard and actually pulling the stilt pins off the board or otherwise damaging it. I got the new 22 pin sockets in Saturday so I took the board and the new sockets to a computer repair shop to see...

There is an electronics repair shop/ thrift store in my town called Free Geek that you can donate electronic items to, working or not (if not working they will attempt a repair) and then they try to resell the items to keep them out of the landfill. I found a set of 3 Paradigm MilleniaOne...

Thanks Tom- I don't believe there are any broken pin pieces stuck in the sockets on the main board-- when I bought the player the upsampler board was completely loose inside the unit, when I opened it up and inspected it I found that those pins were still intact but bent-- if I remember...

One more photo showing the broken pins on the upsampler board. Doing a little research, it appears I may be able to simply order another 22-pin socket "end piece" like the one shown, de-solder those long stilt pins from this socket and solder the new one on, and be good to go. I was hoping this...

Couple more photos of the main board with the upsampler board up top moved out of the way: