Originally Posted by wgr73
Hey joneeboi, i was gonna ask you. From your pictures it looks like you went from the "-" side of the capacitors to a new headphone jack...did you decide not to use the one that was built in??
I did use a new headphone jack. I don't have a sufficiently portable amp yet (one that will fit into my jacket's breast pocket and isn't completely noticeable when I hug someone), so I decided to keep the original headphone jack intact. One major consquence of this design decision is that I have to somehow incorporate a new jack, which leads to an effectively larger player, which then leads to add-ons much like my diyMod 4G's rocket pack. At the same time, this affords the possibility of slightly larger (better?) capacitors than the original iMod's Black Gate NX Hi-Q caps, though Black Gate's NX line is already of high quality. I didn't have the Black Gates on hand, so I had to use some slightly larger, overspec'ed caps that required some method of stabilization. That's where the Tic-Tac box, mummified with electric tape to my iPod, comes in. I'll be making an order of Black Gates soon-ish. We'll see how that goes.