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I took a look at a very cheap Chinese phono amp to have a look at the electronics and to see if it was any good.

UK Vinyl sales surge during 2023

I recapped all the electrolytic capacitors in the power supply of an old BBC Micro home computer as one of the X2 capacitors had exploded.

A Mackie HR624 MK2 Active Monitor speaker that wouldn’t switch on due to a common capacitor failure.

A Cyrus 2 amplifier and PSX power supply needed repairing. This is a quick look at it.

Repairing a couple of Pioneer SX-434 receivers that were putting nasty pops and crackles onto the speaker outputs.

Some old Acoustic Research AR15 speakers needed rusted solid binding posts replacing.

An old Technics RS-615 cassette deck came in for repair.

Repairing a Sony PS4 Slim that has something stuck in the DVD drive.

A vintage Thorens Turntable in for new phono cables.