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Behringer Digital Pro DDM4000

Online Parts International

Relocating to Asia Behringer has moved their manufacturing plants to what is now known as Behringer City, Zhongshan. Much of Behringer’s woes and reputation as being a manufacturer of unreliable products can also be said of other manufacturers moving their tooling to Chinese shores. I won’t mention product names, only that I have worked with three different brands all of which went through the same crises. Oh, yes there’s plenty more. Remember the catastrophic leaky capacitors and inferior electrolyte problems of the late 90s and early 2000s.

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Testing the Hybrid DSP24 Speaker Management Processor

Hybrid is a South African brand, distributed by Viva Africa Hybrid covers a range of products sold in South Africa through Viva Africa, concentrating on the professional audio industry for the African market.  Viva Afrika represents and distributes Numark, Real Sound, Audiocenter, RAM Audio, db Technologies and Beyma as well as their exclusive brands Hybrid…

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Nagra IV-S credit to DRs Kulturarvsprojekt Copenhagen, Danmark

Parts for Vintage Equipment

Where to get vintage gear spares? Over the last 6 months I have received quite a few mails from desperate individuals wishing to restore their old radios, tube and semiconductor, integrated amplifiers, turntables and tape decks. Belts and power supplies and many semiconductors have equivalents but we get stuck with Germanium, decals, knobs and switches…

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Transistor equivalents

Transistor Equivalents – old equipment restoration

Where to find transistor equivalents? Restoring old gear can be a nightmare when it comes to some of the more obscure transistor types, and a pretty expensive exercise as well. Transistor equivalents for substitution is often a necessity when repairing vintage gear. This applies equally well to silicon devices and not just Germanium. Years back…

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Asian Imports – to do or not to do

Asian Imports – not purchasing a white elephant In today’s throwaway world it becomes enticing to purchase something cheaply because either you are cheap 🙂 or more importantly, if it doesn’t work you can just trash.  There is of course a cut off point to what is cheap. A student may baulk at paying R200.00…

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