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Presonus Monitor Repair

He discusses microphone design with an engineer from Rode, which should be of interest to everyone here.
A series of 7 videos, starting with EEVblog #602, You should be able to find the microphone series like I did.
"Microphone Technology & Design".
 
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I have sean on 2000-3000€ audio devices the crapiest capacitors.Companies want more and more win and today nothing last more than 10 years.
 
The entire amp module usually comes off like in this case. And I've tried asking for Aego M's replacement amp, but it costs as much as a second-hand speaker.
The catch, however: Chances are, the second hand speaker has been running many hours already, and so might need repair soon...
So, as the Poles say "płacz i płać" (cry and pay) - for the "real" repair...
 
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These were the cheapest viable option for actually half-decent monitors (~200€ the pair) for years and years, so finding crapacitors in them is not a total surprise. They're still available at a slightly higher price to this day and still worth the money.
 
Someone has to fix the robots!
This is true for many professions, AI will certainly kill some jobs but will add many others just like the advent of the internet did. The issue in all these new technologies is what happens to the lower skilled workers. If you happen to go into any fast food place no one is there to take your order but a screen. Real human contact is disappearing and people meet on the internet, in my mind, a bit sad, but a boon for transcontinental and global interaction like ASR. Evolution is not goal directed.
 
This is true for many professions, AI will certainly kill some jobs but will add many others just like the advent of the internet did. The issue in all these new technologies is what happens to the lower skilled workers. If you happen to go into any fast food place no one is there to take your order but a screen. Real human contact is disappearing and people meet on the internet, in my mind, a bit sad, but a boon for transcontinental and global interaction like ASR. Evolution is not goal directed.
So do a reductio ad absurdum; nobody's working because AI robots can do all physical and mental work. Nobody's getting paid since nobody's working. The tiny amount of human staff needed to support the AI is economically insignificant. The wealthy have a bunch of money that doesn't circulate and doesn't do anything. Dollars are the electrons that spin the motors of the economy when they circulate. AI's don't need them because they use real electricity.
 
Theoretically solvable by "machine tax" and money for everyone. But, many can't tolerate having too much leisure time. They get strange ideas and such...
 
Funny I almost get banned for posting YouTube videos
 
Dave Jones is by far the #1 and the "OG" audio electronics youtuber. He really knows his stuff. Only a few of his videos are audio related though.
I happen to stumble upon his channel during the early days of my audiophile journey, when I started to be skeptical about the stuff audiophiles tend to spew about like high quality power cables and interconnects. I searched up 'audiophile myths' or something like that, and one of his videos popped up! Been a subscriber since, and he's done a lot of other good stuff too, like debunking that Solar Roadways project, which as it turns out, is nothing but air.
 
Funny I almost get banned for posting YouTube videos
I looked at your post history. You post off-topic videos. And repeated a few times. Admittedly the previous mods were much more religious about that than we are now. But still, it has no relevance to me posting this video with clear title as to what is in it.
 
Well, a "professional speaker" can be 500 $ per pair or >5000 per piece...
I would not expect the same parts quality from both.
A modular solution would IMHO be very nice: Module failed, send it in, get a new (or refurbished) one.
Instead of risking transit damage of sensitive loudspeakers.
The approach to these Genelec 8380 results seems excellent to me
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So did Cabasse (France) for its active speakers since 1965 up to 2001, with active crossover and equalization filters, and amplifiers plug-in modules (and often servo-control module as well from 1976).

Galion 3VT (1965):
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Albatros (1979-1991):
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Eider (1978-1989):
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MC001 Atlantis (1991-2001):
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And so many others...
 
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I had one of those Bose Wave radio/CD things given to me since it no longer produced sound. Bose apparently was using the cheapest caps they could source for a device they were charging $500 US for 25 years ago. Replacing all the caps revived it and it still works several years after being repaired. Well "works," the CD player went next and I had no interest in dealing with it. It is just a radio that sits in a room and occasionally gets used for music or the weather. Bose made some really cheap stuff they charged a lot of money for.
 
So do a reductio ad absurdum; nobody's working because AI robots can do all physical and mental work. Nobody's getting paid since nobody's working. The tiny amount of human staff needed to support the AI is economically insignificant. The wealthy have a bunch of money that doesn't circulate and doesn't do anything. Dollars are the electrons that spin the motors of the economy when they circulate. AI's don't need them because they use real electricity.
Not a new concept. See Post-scarcity and Star Trek.
 
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