Technika MC407DAB Test (Micro Hi-Fis)


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Test score: C Average
The score of C comes from 1 Technika MC407DAB review.
Average score of all micro Hi-Fi systems: B.
Product specs: Features: Tuner, CD Player
 
What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision
Issue 1/2008
24 products on test 		"average" (3 out of 5 stars)
"... thanks to its stereo speakers the MC407DAB delivers decent separation and a lack of top-end histrionics. Unfortunately, talk radio sounds like everyone's nursing head colds."
 
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hum on quiet passages


Posted on: 04.03.2008   18:14
Score: E  (Poor)
The smoothing capacitor is grossly inadequate leading to hum on quiet passages, any reasonably competent repair tech can cure this by adding an extra capacitor (at least 2200uF) in parallel with the one fitted. The improvement on the punchiness of the sound is very noticeable as well.

My unit was also susceptible to mains spikes causing the laser positioner to flit around occasionally, adding a 0.47uF chip capacitor across the transformer secondary and a couple of 1uF mylar caps across the main electrolytic seems to have cured this (fingers crossed).

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