NorCal Music & Electronics

09/06/2026

09/05/2026

A new batch of LTP-1 preamps are on the way!

Thanks to Derek Maybee for the excellent gear photos

08/30/2026

A big thank you and welcome to the Lambda family!!
Zach P of Chicago IL

🤘🔥🤘🔥

08/27/2026

RedBishop tools and Peterson tuners get a lot of use around here. Such a big improvement over the old style stamped steel and screw intonation tools.

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07/31/2026

Lenovo laptop with a nonfunctioning USB C power input jack.
05mm pins with fractured solder due to stress.

Since the jack itself was not damaged and did not need to be replaced a 2 part high temp mask was applied along with liquid flux and a small amount of solder to reconnect the pins to the PCB.

Much less expensive than a new laptop.

07/25/2026

Carvin VL100 in for a service, and here we go!
Excess solder blobs and flux residue from a shotgun "reflow" attempt. Missing solder pads and cooked PI output caps from a previous repair and a few other odd things going on that need to be addressed. At some point it has been dropped on its output transformer causing the chassis to deform.
Will need some love.

07/15/2026

Catching up on orders..

Assembling and shipping LTP-1s while building out two new amplifiers models in my workspace and running the repair shop has been a lot.

I had no idea that my reworked version of the Langner DCP-1 would take off like it has. Being a one man operation I'm not able to crank these out one after another, but that's ok. I want to hand build good gear that sounds great.