Recent content by ryangs

Yeah, I ended up getting it. I could tell that while it's definitely still a lower-end model, it's much nicer than the Yamaha. The tonearm looks like a better design, and it moves much more fluidly. Plus, the cue damping works. The brand new belt and stylus also made it a winner, especially...

Well, I have a different option now: There's a guy selling his Technics SL-220 in the paper for $40, with new belt and stylus. It has pitch controls, which my Yamaha doesn't. I wondier if it's not even worth putting the $20+ into my Yamaha for a new belt and the damping fluid when I can just...

Thanks for the tips so far! I popped the platter off and cleaned off the belt (and everything it touches) with some cotton balls, swabs, and rubbing alcohol. A lot of black crap came off! And I think it did some good! I don't hear as much pitch shifting as I used to. I need to clarify, when I...

I recently acquired a nice-looking Yamaha P-220 turntable for $8. It's belt-drive, semi-automatic. It has two problems that are bugging me that I hope I can correct: 1) There is a barely noticable wow during playback. Having listened to certain albums enough on CD, I can pick out the slight...

Whenever I try using the foobar pass-through, it always skips to the next track early, as if it thinks the current song is shorter than it actually is. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

At $59 plus shipping, this amp is probably cheaper than the cost of parts plus labor, especially if you 'know very little about electronics.' Trust me, I am a novice at electronics, and building even the simplest amp cost me lots of blood, sweat, and tears.

HA! I got it to work! There was a really tiny bit of excess solder that was jumping two of the pins. I can't believe how good it sounds for $15 in parts! (and lots of labor...) Thanks so much for catching my stupid mistakes! And thanks for sharing the design, dip16amp! Edit: Hey, so...

Indeed it was. I had mixed that up with the ground wire, and realized that I had forgotten to actually connect the grounds of the inputs to the ground on the circuit. I did that, and fixed the location of out 2. Still no sound, but the opamp is getting REALLY hot now, and I hear pops/clicks when...

I fixed that improper connection, but the problem persists.

Oh, wow. You're right. Don't know how I missed that! I'll fix that and see what happens.

Well, sure. http://webpages.charter.net/ryangs/dip16-3.jpg http://webpages.charter.net/ryangs/dip16-4.jpg Threw in another pic of the infuriatingly tiny volume pot for good measure.

Pictures. Don't laugh. Seriously. Warning: the pictures are massive (~1 mb each). http://webpages.charter.net/ryangs/dip16.jpg http://webpages.charter.net/ryangs/dip16-2.jpg Can you tell that I didn't plan my PCB layout at all? Ha! The brown wire in the middle of the board that...

Don't worry, I've been testing it with some old headphones. As for your other questions... I dunno. I just followed the diagram as close as I could. One thing I just noticed is that one of the far outside pins of the pot is grounding against the metal body of the pot (a little too much...

Only if you promise not to laugh... I ended up building it on a protoboard from Radio Shack because the dip socket was just too small to work with. (taking pictures now...)

I just finished building my first amp, a DIP16AMP X1. It kind of looks like a mess, because my soldering skills are less than perfect, but a thorough visual inspection shows that everything appears to be making contact, and nothing is jumping that shouldn't be. When I turn the amp on, I hear...