[quote user="Doctor"] I would be most interested to hear what Axel thinks of the SMMC4 compared to the MMC4 in construction as well as sound quality. [/quote] I asked him about this when sending some final thanks'. In summary from his post: there is no electrical difference between the two but in SMMC's there is another type of suspension

Me? Never! The SMMC-4 had high distortion with certain records, I thought it was caused by some low enough bass notes. It wasn't audible with all records (and at the time I couldn't be sure if my records were any good, either). I really don't know what was wrong with it but for somewhy it didn't just play well. I recon the previous owner

The cut (where the cartridge has been cut open during the repair) can be seen here.

Very nice!

Some friday! Everything gone smooth at work (even had time to fix a Teac X-1000 open-reel recorder for a co-worker of mine!), and at home: two packets were waiting! Some parts (fe. headphone sockets and cable to use here ) but the other packet was even better: my re-tipped cartridges from Axel Schürholz of Schallplattennadeln.de . I sent two badly

The soldering points used here were un-used in the original wiring.

[quote user="tournedos"] I'd probably put it in the lowest setting to avoid too much volume in the headphones... if the protection trips annoyingly early, then just turn it up some. [/quote] Exactly the way I did, thanks. On the lowest setting the protection cut in once so I turned the setting up just a bit. Some more photos here. The

Thanks Jaff. One question: which setting I should use on the speaker protection adjustment inside the MCL box? Form 1's are rated 35 ohms. I seem to be unable to make any calculations because of my flu!

Close-up of the added headphones connector. Pretty neat, I'd say, and completely reversible by removing the jack and by desoldering three wires from the speaker output connectors -board. The jack wouldn't fit the transceiver cable's hole I put it to the MCL cable's hole. The inside view is too quick-and-dirty to show just yet, we'll

Here comes: MCL2A with headphones output, version 1.0