I had given the SugarCube unit an Ethernet cable connection, thereby avoiding use of the supplied Wi-Fi dongle. In fact it can’t have taken longer than 30 seconds before the snow was replaced by a far more reassuring screen with the SugarCube logo, and I was able to progress to networking and using the app. I don’t encounter many jokes in product manuals, let alone baked into the software, so kudos for that, and I braced myself for any further amusement at my expense further down the line. When you hear the results of our efforts, you will agree that it was worth the wait.”
CLICKREPAIR FLASH LP SOFTWARE
We apologize for the wait but we have some seriously sophisticated software loading and it simply takes additional time. During this time, the LCD display will show snow (our humorous tip of the hat to the old days of analog TV). In there, on page 12 of 54, it tells you not to be alarmed by the snow on the display: “When you power up your SugarCube, it will take about two minutes to complete its startup procedures.
CLICKREPAIR FLASH LP MANUAL
This won’t alarm those who have fully perused the manual in advance, as did I, of course, being a responsible reviewer, though in this case the required information appears only in the digital manual supplied on a stick, and not in the fold-out ‘welcome’ sheet. A couple of company ident screens flash up very quickly, then there’s nothing but ‘snow’. The front panel display is a bit alarming at first. With my turntable and preamp connected to the Sugarcube’s input, I powered up the unit. It’s a solid little unit I couldn’t criticise the engineering-like construction other than at its feet, where sorbothane-like rings in a bottom groove no doubt provide useful isolation against vibration, but had a tendency to fall out whenever I moved it. On the front is another USB slot to which storage can be attached to transfer recordings, along with a knob and buttons to control how much cleaning-up the SC-2 will do to your recordings. So the only key prerequisite for this SC-2 Mini is that you’ll require a phono stage, either standalone prior to the SC-2 Mini’s inputs, or within an amplifier which offers a tape loop.Īround the back of the SC-2 Mini in addition to its inputs are analogue outputs for connection to your playback system or tape loop, USB slots allowing an external DAC to be used, a USB slot for the provided Wi-Fi adaptor, and an Ethernet socket if you’re able to present the unit with a hard-wired network connection. There are other variants, including the SC-2 Mini/I’hono, which adds a phono stage to the model reviewed here, but Australian distributor Decibel Hi-Fi says availability for that one is currently ‘constrained’. The Sugarcube range hails from SweetVinyl in Mountain View, California, which funds product development via the Indiegogo platform, most recently with the SC-2 models updating a legacy range.
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