I'm one of those "guys"
I covered the inside of the casing with the stuff and under the board. In addition I have the copper shielding Pan. made on my Trends. Overkill? no doubt! No negative affects that I can hear. I have no idea how it works. Does it "re-route", absorb, cancel, turn into tiny jelly beans? Who knows. It seems "real" and there are reviews. It's highly conductive so you got to real carefull how you use it.
I covered the inside of the casing with the stuff and under the board. In addition I have the copper shielding Pan. made on my Trends. Overkill? no doubt! No negative affects that I can hear. I have no idea how it works. Does it "re-route", absorb, cancel, turn into tiny jelly beans? Who knows. It seems "real" and there are reviews. It's highly conductive so you got to real carefull how you use it.Hi Björn,
I made the mod to my Trends TA-10 ver 1.1 as described in the Trends mod thread. My experience is quite the same as yours.
I would say that the 'blackness' of my amp is substantially improved. We don't have to listen to what others may not hear but experience anyway unmodded.
This ERS thing does sound interesting too for CD and DAC.
/Erling
I made the mod to my Trends TA-10 ver 1.1 as described in the Trends mod thread. My experience is quite the same as yours.
I would say that the 'blackness' of my amp is substantially improved. We don't have to listen to what others may not hear but experience anyway unmodded.
This ERS thing does sound interesting too for CD and DAC.
/Erling
OK for you guy's modding the coils and shields.
1) Changing to air coils could suffer from reduced bass from possibly increasing coils Rdc. Not sure if you are keeping inductance equivalent to stock parts or if feedback is taken at output of filter.
2) Shields around coils can increase current draw, i.e. acts as shorted turn in an air coupled transformer.
Could someone measure the current draw at light loads and no load.
2A) With Out shields (4places).
2B) With shields no ground drains.
2C) Withs shields with ground drains connected to large caps common.
1) Changing to air coils could suffer from reduced bass from possibly increasing coils Rdc. Not sure if you are keeping inductance equivalent to stock parts or if feedback is taken at output of filter.
2) Shields around coils can increase current draw, i.e. acts as shorted turn in an air coupled transformer.
Could someone measure the current draw at light loads and no load.
2A) With Out shields (4places).
2B) With shields no ground drains.
2C) Withs shields with ground drains connected to large caps common.
All this shielding talk has got me wondering, it that one of the reasons why C37 lacquer might work? Carbon as you know is electronically conductive and does have some EMI/RFI shielding/absorption/reflection properties. Curious.
Has anyone tried painting on some shielding, whether iit be nickel paint (nice and cheap) or silver lacuer/paint?
Has anyone tried painting on some shielding, whether iit be nickel paint (nice and cheap) or silver lacuer/paint?
this is my ghetto attempt..
i have noticed a distinct improvement in treble, the harshness has disappeared entirely! Also the sound stage has increased in width!
On another note, what do you guys put between your power supply and amp? I've found nothing at all to be better than a crap 35v jamicon 10,000.
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i have noticed a distinct improvement in treble, the harshness has disappeared entirely! Also the sound stage has increased in width!
On another note, what do you guys put between your power supply and amp? I've found nothing at all to be better than a crap 35v jamicon 10,000.
Good work!
Icebear, with the spacious layout you have, shielding may not be a big improvement. The Charlize has a nice loose layout and your input caps and wires are far from the coils.
Also, on the Chralize the inductors are not close together as they are on some amps. When they are right next to each other they really send out some RF!
One thing you may want to try is to shield the entire amp. In this case I'm not thinking about the RF coming from the amp and coils, but all the stuff already in the air. I know at my house the amps pick up a lot of hum and buzz if they aren't in a metal box.
Icebear, with the spacious layout you have, shielding may not be a big improvement. The Charlize has a nice loose layout and your input caps and wires are far from the coils.
Also, on the Chralize the inductors are not close together as they are on some amps. When they are right next to each other they really send out some RF!
One thing you may want to try is to shield the entire amp. In this case I'm not thinking about the RF coming from the amp and coils, but all the stuff already in the air. I know at my house the amps pick up a lot of hum and buzz if they aren't in a metal box.
Any data on current draw with/without inductor shields? (see posts #29)
A note about the shield drain connections. The drain connections really want to be tied to the large caps on the D amp PCB. This helps the bad electrons back from where they came from i.e. part of keeping a small loop area. This makes a difference with the RF currents involved here folks.
A note about the shield drain connections. The drain connections really want to be tied to the large caps on the D amp PCB. This helps the bad electrons back from where they came from i.e. part of keeping a small loop area. This makes a difference with the RF currents involved here folks.
Maybe I'll look into it tonight 
folhaseca said:
Hi folhaseca
Yes, reduced efficiency is a possible tradeoff to the shielded coils modification. Also reduced inductance is a concern due to this inductor mod from a shorted secondary turn (shield).
Anytime there's a modification, there are tradeoffs and ramifications, and it's wise to know what they are before commiting to them.
Hi folks.
I havn't been around for a while. Saw this one going on!
Good to see that you experience the same results, which I am enjoying since half a year by now.
I have done it with ERS paper. I also covererd the board from underneath. That's what I do with all my boards! (e.g. DDDAC)
BTW. I know many of you folks will shoot me for this one:
I had a Shakti-Online lying around and glued it to the back
of the chip! This was more than worth it. It still sits there catching all the noise around.
Grain in the sound is more or less gone!
Cheers
I havn't been around for a while. Saw this one going on!
Good to see that you experience the same results, which I am enjoying since half a year by now.
I have done it with ERS paper. I also covererd the board from underneath. That's what I do with all my boards! (e.g. DDDAC)
BTW. I know many of you folks will shoot me for this one:
I had a Shakti-Online lying around and glued it to the back
of the chip! This was more than worth it. It still sits there catching all the noise around.
Grain in the sound is more or less gone!
Cheers
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