[MB AY2]

Wow, awesome!

[MBFM]

Nice! I like it.

[My first MIDIbox.]

After one year of usage I can say that overall I'm satisfied with my variant, easy to carry around and the sound is clean and bright but there are some design flaws. The idea of cutting one side of the HDD enclosure and bend it is nice looking to me and saved me from a lot of screws, it's the elastic force that keeps the all thing together and as long as it does it well if I want to do some upgrades or repair I have to carefully take the all thing apart. The buttons come up too much from the shell, the idea was to cover them and the LCD with an holed piece of plexiglas.

I have already prepared a plexi saved from an old radio but it's too thick so I'll try to dig a small conic indent around each button's hole.

Air flow inside the box isn't that great, it's crowded and I'd like to keep the 8580s cooler, I'm thinking to upgrade these wood side panels with an iron mesh or something similar.

Thanks lucem

[My first MIDIbox.]

Thanks Antix, thanks Hawkeye.

Bye :-)

[Bottom of the box.]

On the left side there are the four screws to fix the core PCB (actually only three in the pic), then the screws for the SID1 PCB and next, the last four on the right side, are for the SID2 PCB (only two in the pic). The purpose of the two lower screws (only one installed) is to fix the voltage regulators to the aluminium shell. The shell is indeed both an electrical ground and an heat dissipation help in this case. Also for the heat problem I've done those small holes along the edges of the box but I'm afraid they aren't really enough.

[My first MIDIbox.]

MIDIbox SID V2, two SID 8580, one 24LC256, two 24LC512, minimal CS, old aluminium HDD box.

Made in Rome (Italy) during spring 2010.