Hi Nick
Have you sorted out the voltage dropouts and spikes yet?
These are not very likely to be the desk itself so you may need to
consider mains conditioners and possibly UPS supply.
When this is fixed, look at the desk. I believe Greece is quite prone to
mains aberrations so you could consider replacing the rectifiers with 35
Amp types and increasing the reservoir caps to say 22,000 uF or possibly
bigger, to reduce the impact of a sudden 'dropout'. This will not remove
the need to sort out real mains dropouts.
The caps need not be particularly fancy types but personally I would
increase the value of some caps in specific positions.
I believe that some are NP (non polarised) types and should be replaced
with NP types.
Don't bother changing op amps until the caps have been replaced /
upgraded as you will not know what the 'improvement' should sound like.
Neotek use transistors to 'boost' the performance of the op amps they
chose which is a sensible and practical move so simply swapping chips
may not actually change things much unless they are actually a
'bottleneck'. Putting in 'super' chips may actually make things worse in
some places unless you have the knowledge and equipment to fully check
the changed performance
Best regards
Matt S
Hi,
Im trying to find some info on recapping my elite. I have little
expirience with electronics although with some effort i think i can
pull it off. Im based in greece so having someone with another neotek
here in impossible so im trying to find some detailed info on which
caps and opamps to replace with which so i can do it myself over a
long period. The truth is i had lots and lots of problems with this
particular elite (mainly voltage dropouts and spikes) and im thinking
maybe the thing to do is to try to restore the console to a full
working state. Ive seen a few posts in the past of people that have
upgraded their elites caps and opamps of if anyone could chime in
would be perfect.
best,
nick
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