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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 2:42
PM
Subject: RE: lexicon boxes
>>for me a Lexicon MPX1... that I must send out for
repair...<<
for some reason I'm hearing a lot about duff lexicon boxes the
last couple of weeks. not the jamman or vortex, with external psu, but the mid
to high end rack effects with smpsu's in them.
we have two dead pcm80s here, both with power supply &
a>d problems. one is landfill now, because (so lexicon say) the a>d chip
is no longer available. the other is starting to go the same way. while I was
pondering this, an mpx1 came in from another studio, again with a duff psu.
the guys in the workshop give you /that/ look when you mention
lexicon.
I just bought an mpx500 (ebay bargain, or so I thought...)
which I was considering putting into my band's live-rig in place of a ten
years old quadraverb that's never let us down. now I'm not so
sure....
I'm not scared of changing out a psu- they're all quite
straightforward inside, these boxes, & generally some variety of 12s &
5s will get them running.... but I am concerned about reliability, & other
components that may fail inopportunely.
fwiw, we've had similar problems with some tc units (we use
dbmax on most of the music channels), but statistically that makes a bit more
sense as we have around 40 of them, & they're on all the time.
duncan.
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