Great job bro.
Great job bro.
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Pics of my Prelude, inspired by this thread
-Recapped with pana fm's / blackgate nx's
- x2 opa637
This is one sweet sounding card, nothing like stock, i reccomend this mod to anyone who owns this card, takes it to a whole new level
this card is feeding my newly built jaycar scha headphone amp
My small collection collection of headphone amps
DT770, recabled and gel pads
Hmm seems interesting, just interested how much did you pay for your opamps + adapters.
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Adapter= $4.95
http://cimarrontechnology.com/audioupgradeadapters.aspx
opa637 x2= £19 each
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/Dk...me=OPA637BP-ND
the cap mods can be done for very cheap using Panasonic fm's instead of blackgates, and will still sound alot better than stock
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OPAMP 627
yep he did't use black gates
sounds much better than stock but not as good as a highend CD PLAYER far from that in fact
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I am delighted to see so many technically high grade in this thread-may I gently ask for some advice? I know the Meridian is CMI8778, the same as the Asus Xonar D2X, which costs a fortune.The Asus has four Burr Brown PCM1796 DAC's, my other choice is the regular Auzentech Xplosion, based on CMI 8770.Here, the Xonar is $ 200, and the other one is $ 100...
Deano, the decoupling caps dont need that much capacitance at all. you are probably hurting the performance of the card. especially with those insanely long leads, those are like antennas picking up the crazy amounts of interference inside a computer case. ive found film and polymer caps give better measurable results, as well as subjective.
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X-fi w/AD8066, Clock mod, & polymer caps > PPAV2 > Grado SR60 & Grado SR325i & Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro & Beyerdynamic DT990 & AKG K701 & Denon D2000
hey everybody this is my first post, im new to the forum. and i am very impressed with your mods..
i have 2 soundcards i would like to mod myself.. i know how to recap and am very handy with a iron..
i have a soundblaster Audigy2 ZS thats my main and best soundcard..
and a soundblaster live CT4760 that i would like to do also as practice..
should i start a thread about it? hoping to find some friendly advice and guidance as a learn how this is done.
You can replace the opamps for the channels that you use, and/or you can re-cap it
Re-capping is the easiest 'mod' to do, but is usually a last resort/minimal improvement mod, if you aren't going to do any bigger mods
well i want to start with the CT4760 soundcard first. for practice.. there are 2 outputs, a mic, and a input.. i think i am seeing 4opamps. 2 of them are matching, im thinking those are the output amps? (5216 98e)??
and i am seeing 5 caps that are larger then the rest. is there usually just one filter cap??
should i be doing this here? or should i start a new thread?
thanks
~john
AMD2x5000+black, 4Gb DDR2-800 Nvidia 9600GT, 2x500Gb WDC-blue, Audigy2 ZS,
Yamaha C-4, M-4, Large Advents.
black gates >>>>>>> solid caps
@aidynphoenix caps are just as crucial as the other components
ya you should start a new thread here this thread is pretty much dead and youd get better help in a thread of your own.. i havent been using a sound card since nvidia gtx480
instead of wasting your time and money on sound card/s like the idiot i was.. id suggest do that on a proper dac
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