Marantz CD63 & CD67 mods list

[Fidelity Audio]

Here is a piccy of the KI I did about 2 years ago with the tx cct diagram.

PIC SCH

Brent

 

[6h5c]

Its interesting that your findings were half the VA of mine Ray. Of course I had HDAM connected and you did not.

Brent

Yeah, I think the HDAM makes a big difference. That's quite a current-drain. I use a nice small toroidal that I found at Farnell for the analog voltage.

Ray

 

[Thomo]

I have a small Nuvotem toroid 2 x 12v for the digital & analogue, plus one 15v for the clock, plus the CD67 Special Edition for the opamps and other bits. The gains have been tremendous so far, so I'll look into another for the opamps.

Any idea what Multicomp tx's are like?

Lee.

 

[Fidelity Audio]

Yeah, I think the HDAM makes a big difference. That's quite a current-drain. I use a nice small toroidal that I found at Farnell for the analog voltage.

Ray

Excellent stuff. I am not suprised how much diff its made over the standard 63 tx really. It should also be better than the KI winding too. Hope I can squeeze the 30VA in LOL

here is a pic of the Nuvotem from RS

Nuvotem

Brent

 

[Fidelity Audio]

I have a small Nuvotem toroid 2 x 12v for the digital & analogue, plus one 15v for the clock, plus the CD67 Special Edition for the opamps and other bits. The gains have been tremendous so far, so I'll look into another for the opamps.

Any idea what Multicomp tx's are like?

Lee.

I have not used those so I can't really comment.

Brent

 

[Simon Chee]

Marantz CD63KI transport

Hi Brent,
I see you have the original ribbon connectors J102/ J103. Just thought everyone should know J102 in my cdp was bad due to cold soldered at several pins in the transport. After numerous times when errors were displayed, finally decided to replace J102/103 I was shocked to find J102 pins could be pulled out easily from the pcb without a soldering iron!!! Maybe it is one of the problems faced by our fellow diyers having similar transports by causes unidentified. Maybe it only affects pre-1997 year of manufacture.

 

[Malefoda]

Hi there!
As said I'm busy fixing my rice cooker, but I wanna ask you how to make a Raygulators, in fact 2, but not 12V as the originals ones but 5V for the DAC.
I guess it's only change in values but I don't know how to calculate it. I'll feed both with a separate TX, maybe buy another one to feed the opamps Raygs.
Thanks!

 

[Thomo]

Hi there!
As said I'm busy fixing my rice cooker, but I wanna ask you how to make a Raygulators, in fact 2, but not 12V as the originals ones but 5V for the DAC.
I guess it's only change in values but I don't know how to calculate it. I'll feed both with a separate TX, maybe buy another one to feed the opamps Raygs.
Thanks!

Hi. I used a 120r resistor and one green + one red led for the voltage drop.

Lee.

 

[Malefoda]

I need more dude, like Ray has done with his Rayg's pics & list.

 

[Simon Chee]

Marantz 63 servo IC TDA1301T

Hi, I,m looking for a quartz crystal 8.46MHz. Anyone knows where to buy one, looks like mine is giving very low output. giving less than half the normal Vp-p.Will any 8MHZ crystal be good enough?

Thanks.

 

[poynton]

Re: Marantz 63 servo IC TDA1301T

Hi, I,m looking for a quartz crystal 8.46MHz. Anyone knows where to buy one, looks like mine is giving very low output. giving less than half the normal Vp-p.Will any 8MHZ crystal be good enough?

Thanks.

Hi.

For a CD63, the best option by far is to run the servo from the main oscillator via a divide-by-2 circuit.

Check out Brent website if you do not know how. He has a ready-made board at a reasonable price,

Andy

 

[avr300]

Hi. I used a 120r resistor and one green + one red led for the voltage drop.

Lee.

I did it with two reds. I don't know why, but my greens gave me aprox. 2V each, and with 1.25 on top, I overshot the 5V. With two reds I ended up with 4.9V.

 

[avr300]

I need more dude, like Ray has done with his Rayg's pics & list.

Here you got more.

Or just use an 360 ohm resistor as buddy to the 120 ohm.

 

[Chivvyp]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A sad departure

Thanks for the kind offer. I think the digital and clock lines will still be ok but, to be honest, that whole area is so fubar I can't really be bothered to try to reconnect it all to check. I've (obviously) got all the mod parts still so I'll look out for a new machine on ebay over the coming months and then transplant them.

In fact I've been thinking of moving to computer based playing for a while and this has stimulated me in that direction. I've spent the weekend starting on copying all my cds and I've also put out an order for a USB DAC module to play with.

Regards

Pete

Managed to get hold of another CD67!

 

[Chivvyp]

I took out all the bits I didn't want

 

[Chivvyp]

And then added all the bits I'd removed from my old modded one


Regards

Pete

 

[Chivvyp]

bit better picture

 

[crazy_bob_uk]

Problem :-(

So I've just started modding my 63, and it's sounding great. But i've got a small problem, it will only read a track for about 30 to 60 seconds then stopps (error 2). It started playing up when i adjusted the potentiometer to try and stop the player skipping.

I've tried adjusting the pot, with no luck and i've replaced J102/103 connection with a soldered on wire, but nothing i do seams to fix it.

I'm thinking a new mechanism might be the solution, if so where is a good place to order one from in the uk??

 

[Thomo]

Good place for mechs is:

http://www.dalbani.co.uk/index.php

You should look for VAM1201 or VAM1202.

Regards,

Lee.

 

[Glenn2]

Just don't use Grandata.

They sent me a dud- I sent it back.
They sent me another dud - I sent it back.
They didn't send me any more - I gave up.

I didn't get my money back.

I got one from another player (only a few months of use) and used that instead.