tetsuo1981

@sfbp I'm tempted to keep the lam but the Mrs is giving me stink eye about it! Happy wife, happy life!! 🤣 I dunno, I might keep it yet and take it to work for a player. I don't want to let it go cos it's cool but at the same time if I'm not gonna use it, then it's dead money. Glad to hear my choice was a good one, got some replacement belts on order to make sure it's all good when it comes 👍🏻 Just waiting for the hit on shipping from japan, even without speakers it's not gonna be cheap. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

@sfbp got a CMT-M333NT coming from Japan. Gonna have to sacrifice the speakers sadly to keep shipping costs down but can easily grab a similar pair from eBay/FB market place if I need them. It's going to be my pure recording device so I don't keep thrashing my nz510 Will report back when the new transformer arrives if the lam behaves any differently. Still half tempted to have it apart but I've not got the best track record so might just leave it for someone more skilled and braver than me!

@sfbp that's odd, I'm sure I've had my netmd walkman record off of battery before I'm gonna have to test again now. The brutal honesty is I've been spoiled by netmd and the ease of labeling etc and was after a small deck to use just as my burner. As for *knowing* that some things should be avoided, I was going to leave it be and cut my losses with the lam. Then a netmd bookcase unit and 100w transformer fell into my basket last night! 🤣 if this doesn't work I'm giving up!! But am interested regarding power issue you mentioned, will try the lam woth the beefier transformer when it comes

@kgallen @sfbp thanks for the in depth answers. The skips are apparent in nearly the same places most of the time when recording on the lam and these are replicated when played in a different device. But pre recorded and discs recorded from another device playback fine. I was thinking problems with high-speed dubbing was down to a power issue, either my stepdown converter or capacitors failing but was hoping for a simple fix as replacing capacitors or adjusting / measuring the laser is well out of my skill set. There's no service manual i can find, even in japanese and only a few pictures on the wiki of the inside of it. The more I think the more inclined I am to cut my losses and sell it as spares repairs and put the funds to a 'newer' net md deck

Nuts, that was not what I was hoping for. Think I'm gonna cut my losses and sell it as spares

Hi @BearBoy, thanks for having me. Skips occur when playing back on both the LAM-1 and seperate device. They're nearly always in the same place. 99% sure other discs including pre-recorded discs play back fine. I did manage to dub from a cd to md once with no skips but the next time it want back to skipping, same as using any type of netmd software too. I've stuck a cotton swab in and cleaned bothe the lens and head numerous times with no real joy, It made it better but not perfect (less skips). I read somewhere, can't remember where now, that if the lens / write head isn't tracking properly while recording it can cause this and recording is more sensitive to this than playback. I'm stuck as I'm terrified of opening it up to get to the gears to clean and relube but think it's my only option

Hi all I've got a Japanese LAM-1 and it's ok-ish but I've got a few issues. Can't high speed record from cd to md but can do real-time. But either through net md or recording cd the recorded disc has intermittent skips on playback. I've cleaned as far as I can, is it worth going deeper and potentially breaking it to clean and relube or is it just dying? Cheers guys