On 29/04/2013 16:59, Dave Malham wrote:
A few months ago I had to sort out a PCM701 with one of my spdif cards in (the ones I used to do for Audio Design). We went through three PCM units before we found one that worked fully in replay mode (the original, one from the Uni and the final one, off Ebay). There seems to be something in the electronics that becomes increasingly unreliable with time in, I think, the clocking circuits which I find very worrying especially. Given the fact that archiving houses (in the UK in particular, the British Library) very sensibly bought up a lot of machines when HHB finally stopped sponsoring production, there aren't likely to be many working boxes around any more, so guard any you have that work very carefully!Dave PS I don't have any more of the spdif and the chip it was based on is no longer available so I can't make any more!
Interesting - time for some testing. Last time I turned it on, it all worked, but that was at least 5 years ago, or approx when said cheap video recorder started chewing tapes.
I have forwarded this to Archer Endrich; he may still have a few kits lying around. We are still scratching our heads about what to do with all this old CDP kit!
Clarification: I just checked it, my model is the PCM 601-ESD (not the 701), it has its own spdif i/o as well as the CDP port.
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