@Hyperscope - RQ-568 deserves its own thread here at S2G, I will definitely post my resto efforts once final glitches get polished-out! In short,...
Ha! just a few weeks ago I received my Denon DCP-50 upgraded by Kaosun to DCP-150 status :) @Hyperscope - Headroom amp is an excellent choice. My...
@Derek marshall - as far as I know, all D-555 have three SMD caps. Late Ser.Nos made sometime after November 1989 have upgraded KSS-220 lasers,...
@Derek marshall - the sooner your D-555 gets opened, the easier your job will be! My 'specialty' is Sony D-90: seven years ago all I had to do was...
Now 1-Bit-heads have a majority here at S2G ;) To sell Sony D-10 in favor of D-303, Wow! We all hear differently! I did quite the opposite, until...
@Dfcruiser - you got me confused - what do you mean? Hopefully some of the pros here notice this thread but to me it looks like MPX filter is...
Since you are not going to record from the radio (I also never did this in my younger days, and have no plans on starting now), just take MPX...
Evidently, transfer of working laser mechanism into a damaged D-555 was a wrong move. What I suggested yesterday in our personal comm line was:...
Definitely post some photos of your baby: I almost bought one of these beauties off Yahoo-Japan, but my turntable needed an upgrade and this...
Somewhat cheaper option is buying two battery packs with similar connectors: [ATTACH] Even better option: two Recoton CD-22 kits, like this one...
Good Catch! DPC-81 is a different beast though, yours looks exactly like my DPC-61 (but its native remote is marked as RC-P81, not 61): [ATTACH]...
mainboard of a similar Discman, Kenwood DPC-531, looks pretty good: [ATTACH] But - all capacitors are Dead or Seriously Bad when tested for...
My new Discman collection is growing fast, even have Philips D10, Funai (as a substitute for my lost Loewe CD100) and white Sony D-100... but no...
Welcome to the club! hopefully someone will post photos of WM-5 innards I wouldn't worry too much at this point, personally I start stressing...
thanks for the tip on "CD Player Maintenance". "Understanding CD Players" I have as a paperback and on Kindle, even read it... twice!!... A lot...
This looks like The End to Beer&Boomboxes thread… (please play Doors ‘The End’ now!) Beer or Boomboxes Select few can handle both, it seems...
I am not sure if it fits but keep in mind that there is also CDP-17F model which is rather cheap and more easily found: [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]...
Any damage to the board from leaking batteries??? If all connections and switches look OK (more than once I had to "fix" a Discman with HOLD...
@Simon Marston - radio should work independently of CD, you must have missed something during reconstruction. Make radio work first, then put...
Cracked hinge is a part of the Discman's case so, unfortunately, SL-XP5 has to be completely disassembled for this fix. [ATTACH] gutted-out:...
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