Correct! :) The difference is really quite remarkable; I had one mid-range that was in very poor shape and was affecting the sound quite a bit...

Any guesses what I set out to do tonight? :)

That did it!! C15 (2,2μ 50v) on the amplifier board was my Waterloo -- I broke the connection somewhere in the midst of replacing it. Now fixed via a patch wire, insulated with shrink tubing. Nearly all the capacitors are replaced in the crossovers (Dillen and I are tracking down the more obscure ones for this extremely early Penta I) and I'm taking

Double-checking my work, I already found one broken trace on the amplifier board (where a silver ring had pulled away from the board.) I guess you can't be too careful with these 1980s boards - very fragile! Will check everything again, make some repairs, and report back... thanks for the tip!

I'm in the midst of refurbishing the BeoLab 150 amplifiers which are a part of a set of Penta I's. I've completed what I thought was a successful recapping of the amplifier board, together with an upgrade of the IC2 opamp, only to discover that I've unfortunately rendered the BeoLab (temporarily?) inoperable. Here's the situation right now: Fuses are

I thought people might be interested in some pictures of the crossovers from a set of Penta MkI that I am refurbishing. These are North America (110v) models, but more interestingly they seem to be extremely early in the production run, and are very different from the MkII and MkIII crossover circuits. Click through to see notes overlain on the image

Unfortunately none of the advice given regarding European sets will be relevant to a North American MX. The good news is that we have *both* the Service and the regular manuals available for silver/gold members. The Service Guide is currently mis-filed under the European MX5000, but I'll see if Van can fix that for us. The User Guide should be online

Turning back to the original question, with most iPods the jack at the back of the dock will output a line-level signal. Leaving aside questions of the quality of the D/A converters involved, in theory this signal should be pretty clean. Does the volume change when you adjust the iPod's own volume in your setup?

Given the window, it's probably (although not certain) that your 2300 can support two-way remotes such as the BeoLink 5000 and 7000. You may be able to see the IR LEDs illuminate briefly after a CD track change or other such event. There were a few made with windows with nothing behind them, and a few more with all the requisite hardware but a newer

Actually it looks this outboard encoder just might do it: http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=16&product=14191&nav=0