Thanks, that sounds perfect – it satisfies my criteria for optical pickups and would appear to be a really interesting item. What is its current status?
From Zev: “Originally I had very carefully adjusted the focus and gain settings, and I did manage to get it to work. After it played for a few hours though, it just quit on me. I may have gone a little wild after that tweaking the dials, so it’s possible that they are all out of adjustment.” After I received the package… From Sam: When one compares the newer models to these, it is amazing how far the manufacturing has come – a couple of ribbon cables/connectors and the entire optical deck pops out – none of this flying lead stuff! BTW, that pickup looks to be similar to those used in a number of quite new non-Sony model portables and boomboxes including Emerson (whoever makes them — Mitsumi?), Aiwa, etc. The other portables I have received based on my request for dead optics have all had good optics! 🙁 They have seemed to have power problems – one was smoked by too much voltage, another has an overheating problem. From Zev: “Hmmm. I never thought about comparing the optics to othe
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