oroville Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 anyone know if this is a good unit?? http://www.ebay.com/itm/171032621935?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Pham Cu (and many other vietnamese guys but not engineer in electronics & MD lover like him) sell similar Hi-MD bookshelves 3 times cheaper : http://www.5giay.vn/am-thanh-audio/3360572-ban-dau-md-desk-thu-phat-hoac-lam-da-va-cac-dich-vu-lien-quan-toi-minidisc.html And one member of my viet-khieu family from "Cali" is still here in Saigon... but I don't think he sell the bookshelf with all accessories, I need to ask him to get details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 That is cute, but the only unit in that LAM series I might spring for is the X1 which does HiMD. However, Jim had one in for repair and he says that construction-wise those are not very good. I'm happy with my Onkyo (X-B8) but already looking over the shoulder to the day when it breaks (see Richard's post ). That's the problem with all-in-one gear, I suppose, one thing breaks, the whole thing is rendered inoperable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim.hoggarth Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 The X1 was a very disappointing unit. My friend Norman in Lancashire brought it over for me to look at several months ago, and I had extreme difficulty even getting into it. I always divide gear into two camps: solid, basic, obviously repairable, and so on. Then there is cheap, plastic, clipped together, never designed to be repaired. The X1 fell into the latter case. I found one screw on the case, which allowed me to prise open clipped-together plastic panels. When I eventually got to removing the front panel, the only way I could see was to forcibly prise it off as with the upper and side cases. Unfortunately this lead to the silver paint-on finish on the inner side of the panel to start peeling off, making a mockery of any attempt to fix. And as the original problem was the CD/MD doors falling off (cheap plastic design again), I gave up on it. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 Pham Cu has also a LAM-X1 (without loudspeakers) but he don't sell it. May be he could be of some advise or could have some idea to replace a spare part ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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