If only my first wife had realised, all fully maintained by Quad ВЈ300. The speakers were the 57's you had along with the 22 2 11's etc. Made me think back to the Quad system from my mate Pete Dove, he was desperate to sell me it (he was a mate of Peter Walker), he was buying the all singing and all dancing latest (after he reviewed if for one magazine or another). I am still chewing a brick over being told to give up, spend 9.5k for a streamer and get rid of my old analogue kit by a major Linn dealer. If they are out of coded spec I will bin them too.Д¬ontrary to the bull on the net, all the caps are 105c rated. I am going to change out the lot including the XY. The small capacitor next to the large pair (image 7) had exploded (yes, exploded at the base). I will post photo's when I figure out how. I have ordered the capacitors from Panasonic and the X Y from TME arrives Monday (they say). A new one (from a reputable supplier) was duly fitted, and had the player working well :)

Cleaning the lens made a marginal, but inadequate improvement. The servo was struggling to lock, discs were prone to skipping. After a bit of head-scratching, it was found that the UC3825DW controller IC has failed. In about 25% of these units, you will find you can now reassemble and it'll work :) Get quality 105 degree rated caps from a reputable supplier. Now change out all of the small electrolytic capacitors. Those two large electrolytics on the right are the ones that tend to hold their charge! Discharge them before they bite! If your foam washer is still intact you'll need to remove a bit to get to the screw heads. We now need to remove the three nylon screws from the base plate. Instantly I noticed that familiar smell of capacitors that have been too warm :( You'll need to work the strain relief grommets down their slots a little to get them free. You can now extract the PCB's from the enclosure. Be very careful not to touch the PCB's, until you've checked there's not a cap charged up to a few hundred volts waiting to bite! Right, now a note of warning! This thing always seems to remain charged up.

This means that (unsurprisingly) someone's been here before! You'll notice the foam washer has been cut away here, to expose three nylon screws. Now remove the three shiny outer screws from the enclosure.

Undo the mains input from the input PCB, and the output to the main chassis. These supplies were sold as an 'upgrade' (because Linn ownership is all about upgrades, right?) It's a switched mode in a toroidial shaped metal box, designed to fit where the once perfectly adequate, perfectly reliable mains transformer lived.ДЇirst things first, remove the nut securing the supply to the chassis from below, and lift out the supply. Right, Removal of four screws underneath, and slide the cover off, praying I don't see the dreaded 'Brilliant' power supply. It fails to read the table of contents.ДЄ couple of power cycles, and I manage to get my disc back out.

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