{"id":332,"date":"2018-12-01T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T10:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/?p=332"},"modified":"2018-12-01T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:14:32","slug":"focal-sm9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"FOCAL SM9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My customer bought them while he lived in Ireland and upon return to Prague, Focal refused to repair them. I never seen such a poor customer service to refuse post warranty service.<\/p>\n<p>I investigated and the problem was with the soft start circuit for the internal 800VA toroid transformer. It consists of triac and rectifier bridge. Both the triac and bridge were shot so I replaced them with beefier spec units and added additional heat sink on both.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_093920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333\" src=\"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_093920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1960\" height=\"1470\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_093920.jpg 1960w, http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_093920-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_093920-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_093920-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1960px) 100vw, 1960px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_094055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-336\" src=\"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_094055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1895\" height=\"1421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_094055.jpg 1895w, http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_094055-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_094055-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181120_094055-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1895px) 100vw, 1895px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My customer bought them while he lived in Ireland and upon return to Prague, Focal refused to repair them. I never seen such a poor customer service to refuse post warranty service. I investigated and the problem was with the soft start circuit for the internal 800VA toroid transformer. It consists of triac and rectifier &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/?p=332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FOCAL SM9<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vintageaudiorepairs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}