![]() ![]() ![]() There's a guy in Bristol who runs a Yaqin information site and apparently offers repairs and servicing. ![]() However if you want something that can give great sound at a low price and you are up for a bit of valve rolling and fiddling, it's worth a punt imo. To summarise, if you want something that's definitely plug and play I would avoid it. It's clear that the large codpiece that is the mains transformer cover contains quite a lot of air! :eyebrows: No more whistles to date.Īs you can see, getting access to the components would require quite a bit more dismantling, so it's not very tweak-friendly in that respect. While I was there I cleaned up the flux that was around. This was quite easy to do, by cutting the pcb tracks leading to the grids. This improved the sound a lot, and virtually erased my previous criticisms to the point where I was pretty happy with it.Īfter a day or so the odd whistling noise reappeared, so I took the bottom off (see pic) and soldered in some 1k grid stopper resistors at the 5963's. To continue: I had expected to be changing the valves when I bought it, so I put in a pair of Sylvania JAN 12AX7's, and Philips JAN 5963's instead of the 12AU7's. Marco leads by 30 points to 15 in the first set. One of the 12AU7 valves was extremely microphonic.įine, feel free to continue your game of tennis with my thread, guys. After a day or so it began to emit intermittent whistling noises (on both inputs). It's pretty solidly built, and bigger than I imagined :- 35cm from front to back.Įarly listening impressions were favourable, though it sounded a bit rolled off at frequency extremes and the stage with phono input was a bit restricted in width and depth. Yaqin loses a few points imo for having that emitter follower buffer after the phono stages.Įrgonomically it's a bit odd as you can see, with phono inputs at the front and cd input plus outputs at the rear. is below but I haven't checked it so can't vouch for its accuracy. The manufaturer's website is good for a laugh: It arrived in just under 2 weeks, well packed, and extra charges at this end were just under 20 quid. I didn't want to wait for the free shipping via a slow boat from China so on top of the very cheap 129GBP asking price (can't find a pound sign on this laptop!) I paid an extra 25 for airmail. ![]() I thought that at the very least it would tide me over while the rat's nest on the floor that is my diy Jfet phono stage gets organised into a box. I read mostly favourable comments about the Yaqin MS-12B on the 'net so I've bought one. I've just lost a longish post I was creating on this :( so I'll keep it short now and add more later. ![]()
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