Tag: revox evolution

Revox Evolution front panel repair (#P10F1)

Soo…the Revox thing from #P10 wasn’t done at the time, and when the missing cable arrived from China (“DB9 Male to Female Gold-plated Extension Cable Pure Copper Line RS232 9 Pin Serial Connector Wire COM Core with Double Shield” for a whopping 4.53€), it didn’t really work as expected.

I wondered: Did they do fancy things with the shielding, in order to squeeze out one more connection from this otherwise 9 pin cable? The cable might have different characteristics compared to the metal-to-metal contact of the serial connectors directly sitting on top of each other. […]

3rd March 2019 2nd March 2019 By Bzzz In No Comment

Revox Evolution 19″ panel mount (#P10)

Christmas, the fabulous time of the year where you got plenty of free time, but you aren’t supposed to make hell of a noise :suspect:

Happy 2019, y’all!

Having ordered a second 19″ keystone plate recently, I decided to finally make the user panel of my Revox Evolution stereo system into a front-mount panel that fits the outside of the rack. Without, it got even more hidden inside because of the top-mounting system that is used. Here’s an original marketing wankery image from Revox:

So if that unit is sitting inside of a 19″ rack, imagine the user experience (wank, wank) of operating the display if the top part is blocked by other stuff. […]

6th January 2019 6th January 2019 By Bzzz In 1 Comment

Palladium LA-1000 pre-amp and Revox Evolution stereo system (#P2)

Well, this weekend I’ve been busy replacing dead and leaked caps from something not too Wan-Hung-Lo-ish…a Palladium LA-1000 pre-amp (“Vorverstärker”) back from the 80’s. These are still sold for absurd amounts of money (just like the Revox described down below), so I decided it’s worth a shot. Details on that thing are scarce, and so I’d like to post the cap list in case someone also needs replacements for their dripping electron containers.

Type	Voltage	Count	Reichelt ###	Price	Total	
1µ0	50V	1	RAD FC 1,0/50	0,15 €	0,15 €	
3µ3	50V	1	RAD FC 3,3/50	0,10 €	0,10 €	
4µ7	35V	4	TON 4,7/63	0,39 €	1,56 €	<-- bipolar type!
10µ	16V	2	RAD FC 10/50	0,08 €	0,16 €	
10µ	35V	1	RAD FC 10/50	0,08 €	0,08 €	
22µ	25V	2	RAD FR 22/50	0,06 €	0,12 €	
22µ	50V	1	RAD FR 22/50	0,06 €	0,06 €	
47µ	50V	6	RAD LXZ 50/47	0,09 €	0,54 €	
100µ	16V	2	RAD FR 100/16	0,06 €	0,12 €	
100µ	35V	2	RAD FR 100/50	0,13 €	0,26 €	
100µ	50V	3	RAD FR 100/50	0,13 €	0,39 €	
220µ	10V	2	RAD FR 220/16	0,11 €	0,22 €	
220µ	25V	1	RAD FR 220/35	0,12 €	0,12 €	
220µ	35V	2	RAD FR 220/35	0,12 €	0,24 €	
330µ	35V	1	RAD FR 330/50	0,48 €	0,48 €	
1000µ	50V	5	RAD FR 1.000/50	0,99 €	4,95 €

You'll notice some caps are binned together, mostly because there are e.g. […]

28th March 2017 6th January 2019 By Bzzz In No Comment