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FYI - very satisfying tweak night yesterday

Wanted to thank everyone for help they've provided over the past few months (various forums). It ended up in me digging out the soldering irons and doing 3 tweaks last night.
a) Leak Stereo 20 amp: replaced the screw speaker terminals with 5-way binding posts. Very easy.
b) Musical Fidelity P180 amp: Replaced bulging (and rattling after I pulled them out) caps with 105 deg Panasonics from digikey.
c) Built a switch box for turntable loading, using a 6way stereo rotary switch from Wellbourne labs, RCA outs, Vishay resistors (except for the 10 ohms from ratschack), connected to my phono with Kimber PBJ..Now I can select from 1, 4, 10, 45, 100 and 175 ohms! Makes life a lot easier when playing with 2 turntables and 6 MC cartridges! I should have done this 10 years ago! I was using RCA plugs connected to speaker binding posts, and inserting resistors in there, every time I changed a cartridge or TT..What a pia it was..they always kept getting loose, and all of a sudden the TT volume would jump in one channel!
I'm going to need to change the wire in this - I used some random ancient radio shack hookup wire I had. I need to change to silver wire I think.
Next, I need to built a 2 or 3 way selector for my phono-in now..Anyone have a used good input selector switch lying around?
Oh, and I did some speaker cable repair and plug reconfiguration!
Fun night. Samir.

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Topic - FYI - very satisfying tweak night yesterday - Gofast 06:34:48 03/03/06 (0)

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