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Someone (was it Frank?) said that Sound Sales didn't do much to the M400s
when they got 'em.

I'm just thankful that neither of my M400s was "improved" by those guys. :-)

From what I recall of the Sound Sales mods...

1) They tied down the tape take-up box differently using parts from
elsewhere in the machine. They got rid of the wooden wedges, and didn't
they then take the L-brackets from the bottom of the take up box and put
them on the top sides of the box and tied it to the frame instead of the
side boards? (This alone would weaken the side boards, resulting in the
need for (2).)

2) The side board where the motor is gets some kind of treatment---I don't
remember what they did there, but I seem to recall it was an attempt to
prevent the side board from flopping around during transport and only wound
up making the thing more unreliable.

3) They put a sticker on the power supply.

4) They sold it for twice the price of an M400 ordered from the UK. :-)

I was unaware that they devised and put in the SMS-3, but that alone is a
huge improvement over the CMC-10, so that's A Good Thing.

What else did they do? Anyone got one and can share a few pics with me for
the web site for a page about "Sound Sales M400 Modifications"?

...kl...
M400 #805 - SMS-4, UK original
M400 #1037 - SMS-2, ditto