Andre Visser said:
Hi André
I do agree with you.
What I meant was at the stage of my equipment the biggest gains per £ invested are initially with the source when you start with a stock CD63.
Jim
poynton said:
It is now a standard part of their mod pack on ebay. Been doing it for a few months now at least.
Lee.
RCruz said:
Well they have have done CD63 mods for probably 10 years, they have had a way of modding it where they fit loads of small BG around the opamps, used OPA2604 (yuck), and a few other mods which they have now scrapped and appear to do it in exactly the same way we do it using the same or similar caps. For example they never addressed anything around the servo and now offer levels 1 -3 as we do LOL
The Servo clock was added to the player I have here because I told the customer to get it done while it was in being repaired after it came back faulty (twice lol).
Brent
God yes with out a doubt, my mains cable , filters , speaker cables and interconnects come to more than £2K and worth every penny. I actually want to upgrade some bits but the costs are high.Andre Visser said:
You hear the improvement more when the system is of a higher level. I always tell people that good or expensive cables don't make the sound better poor ones degrade it.
Brent
jimh0612 said:
I recommend as very good but not overly expensive speaker cable is the Kimber 4VS , 8VS or 4TC. Get second hand off ebay.
Brent
jimh0612 said:
That's quite true, there is a lot to be gained by these mods. 😉
Here is the reason for my remark, I've come across two groups in the past, the one claim that the source is important, the rest doesn't matter and the other group say that the speakers are important, the rest make no difference.
I believe that one weak link in the chain affect every component in the system.
André
rowemeister said:I always tell people that good or expensive cables don't make the sound better poor ones degrade it.
Brent
That’s very true. My saying is that all cables are bad, the good ones only less. 😀
Andre Visser said:
I agree it's all important. At the UK meet we had some of these people last year, judging by the equipment brought - loads of lovely amps and many fantastic speakers - NOT ONE modified or otherwise high-end source!!! It will change this year, if there is a UK meet this year. Nothing sounded very special - everything had the trademark congestion and white noise treble associated with a poor digital source, even if some designs shone through, somehow.
Simon
SimontY said:
Maybe they have read to much from "the audio critic", some wise*** there claimed that all CD players sound the same, perhaps excluding some of the very old ones with 14bit DACs. 😱
André
Andre Visser said:
To be fair people brought lovely things they'd made and not many can or would think to build a source component.
The Audio Critic must be written by complete idiots then. Why don't they do some blind listening tests, that is valid enough for any wanna-be "scientist", and you can certainly hear two players apart in this way.
Simon
Hi Brentrowemeister said:
Should I place the 470uFBG after the regs even with them placed near the opamps ?
The caps are fine, nothing to worry about. Altho smaller values would be better maybe 220uF.
Brent
Brent
RCruz said:
If you have the local decoupling caps (hopefully BGs) then you don't need another set after the regs - not now that the regs are near the op-amps.
Simon
I read it as should he leave the opamp caps in place. You read it as adding caps.
What did you mean Ricardo
Brent
What did you mean Ricardo
Brent
I read it as possibly re-using the post-regulator caps in addition to the local decoupling caps.
We shall see...
Simon
We shall see...
Simon
Exactly, I meant, moving the sregs near the opamps but keeping the 470uFBG on the sregs outputs.SimontY said:I read it as possibly re-using the post-regulator caps in addition to the local decoupling caps.
We shall see...
Actually I was thinking to re-use those 470uFBG actually on C805 C806.
Not adding extra caps.... just moving them nearer to the opamps.rowemeister said:
Maybe I do not need them because I already have the 220uFBG on the opamps...
LOL are you sure HEHE
The ones next to the opamps are fine, remove C805 C806 as they are not needed.
I'm sure you can find somewhere else for them 😉
Brent
The ones next to the opamps are fine, remove C805 C806 as they are not needed.
I'm sure you can find somewhere else for them 😉
Brent