The *NOT BORING!* Hi-Fi faff chat and sales

[elite504]

Thanks for the reply Ren,
Going into more detail, oddly enough the stereo is ok, just the remote is dead. I've wrested the remote a few times, re-soldering tracks, but now it's just a non-starter.
From googling, it seems that the model isn't really a Hitachi, but a rebadged something that Currys brought in a few years ago. No remotes have been on ebay since forever, and the remotes are the acilles. As getting up for work is actually quite important, I think I might have to call time on it and go shopping - hence seeking advice!
Oh I'm in Kent/ SE London

 

[Thame Game]

I've just bought a pair of Leak 250's (the old ones not the 2k new ones!).
I have a surround amp running my AV, but I want to ad an amp dedicated to the Leaks for my turntable.
The Leaks will replace my left & right front channel speakers on the AV.
Can anyone suggest a splitter box or some such device so I can safely switch between my turntable using the Leaks and my AV also using them?
Thanks all, this forum is great!

 

[sunympholepsy]

Evening,
I have an old Hafler DH200 amp which keeps blowing one of the speaker fuses. Any ideas what might be causing this? Also any recommendations for somewhere I could get it serviced? It’s been gathering dust for a few years now due to this, which is a waste. I’ve had it paired with LS3s and it sounded better than many more modern (and expensive) amplifiers/ setups I have had.

Cheers

Anyone?

 

[mdvineng]

Swap the speakers over and see if the fault follows it from channel to channel or it stays the same channel fuse that blows.

 

[sunympholepsy]

Swap the speakers over and see if the fault follows it from channel to channel or it stays the same channel fuse that blows.

Thank you.
It’s always the same channel…

 

[Aech]

Anyone?

Are you any good with electronics ?

There is an Owners manual on the hifiengine website that has a circuit diagram and lists component values, sadly I didn't find a service manual but with some patience you could follow the diagram and test it with a multimeter. In case your not a member of that website I've downloaded the manual and could email it to you if that would help (I can't attach it to this message as it's too big)

Since you have one working channel you can compare values from the good channel to the side that keeps blowing fuses to isolate the fault.

I also found this which is a list of some changes that an owner has seen with different versions of that amp.

 

[sunympholepsy]

Are you any good with electronics ?

There is an Owners manual on the hifiengine website that has a circuit diagram and lists component values, sadly I didn't find a service manual but with some patience you could follow the diagram and test it with a multimeter. In case your not a member of that website I've downloaded the manual and could email it to you if that would help (I can't attach it to this message as it's too big)

Since you have one working channel you can compare values from the good channel to the side that keeps blowing fuses to isolate the fault.

I also found this which is a list of some changes that an owner has seen with different versions of that amp.

Thanks a lot for your input, Aech. That’s very helpful.
I still have all the original paperwork, including schematics etc.
I am pretty useless with electronics, unfortunately. I have a friend with a multimeter and some knowledge, so might ask him to give this a try.
Cheers!

Best regards

 

[Betsy]

Back in the early 2000s, in the halcyon days of the old internet, before every fkin click was monotised to the nth degree, i used to download a ton of music.. torrents, Limewire, Piratebay ect.. i had 10,000+ dloads alongside my 2000+ CD collection.. anywho, non of this shit was backed up, it was just stored on numerous ipods.. so when my old macbook died, i was left with said ipods which i couldn't update.. as phones became the new music players and the internet turned to utter shit.. i withdrew from technology somewhat.. i only got a smartphone relatively recently

I digress.. after the death of the torrents and the birth of the streaming services, i started to convert Youtube videos to MP3 using online converters.. having to virus check everything was a pain.. after a while i started using '4K Video Downloader' it was perfect bit of freeware for converting YT video to mp3 format, it stores them to iTunes so i can whack them on my old iPod Shuffle for Sunday bike rides.. alas, after a decade of good service, it recently became unsupported and the update was put behind a paywall..

A brother from another forum suggested 'JDownloader2' which i installed last week, it's very comprehensive, but not very user friendly.. after a few hours of trying to get my head around it.. i thought i had it figured.. downloaded a load of tunes from YT but it stored them as mp4 instead of audio files ..

Aaarrhh!! in my frustration, i uninstalled it last night.. so can anyone recommend me a free (and clean) simple converter where i can just copy a url from YT, paste in into a converter, it'll parse the link, and transfer the mp3 to iTunes?

 

[grantoury]

@Totoro

 

[Totoro]

https://ytmp3.fan/

There are loads if you just type Youtube mp3 into a search engine, some are better than others, some have popups and crap. That is one of the ones I've been using these last few months or:

https://v2.youconvert.net/ene/

Just sometimes a track or two might have a problem but it is very rare, also be sure you have the actual URL of the track you want and not a playlist. Sometimes I will find a track in a playlist then just search for the name or artist of the track.

I'm lucky, I started converting/ripping mp3 in the 90's and still have all my original tracks and all the ones I've added over the years, backed up on many drives in case of any fail.