Chak, I am not sure what you are saying above, but in any case, my TT101 never went to Germany. In fact, Thuchan did not buy his TT101 until well after mine had been repaired by JP. Bill Thalmann had a shot at repairing mine, but it would not misbehave at any time in Bill's shop. I left it with him twice, in fact. That was another weird aspect of the problem. As mentioned elsewhere, it would often work well in our kitchen but not in our basement (where I have a second system that now is driven by the TT101, alternating with my Lenco). In retrospect, we can hypothesize that the fracture in the PCB tracing was causing an intermittent short which resulted in an intermittent problem that could come and go in relation to moving the turntable from place to place. Trucking it in my car on the DC beltway over to Bill's shop was good for it on the way out and bad for it on the way back to my house. (Tongue in cheek, of course.) I still have great faith in Bill.
My other point would be that re-soldering all the joints did not cure the problem, because it was basically caused by a fracture in the PCB, cutting across a tracing on the PCB. JP mentioned his wider experience with the fragility of the PCBs. So, one might consider going over the PCB with a magnifying glass. Even when JP told me where to look, after he repaired mine, I could not easily see the fault or his repair of it.
