Yeah SS, let's make 2 toasts!
One to Penchum for introducing Zero
And another one to PP for bringing this kit out !
I also can't remeber what a stock unit sounds like... but I guess Franken must be far far ahead from it.... so much improvements were done......
Well, upgrading Zero to Franken was tuff.... not because it's a complicated thing, but due a bad solder sucker I had and used.....
There were pretty scaring moments when I thought I would mess with my zero or Franken kit caps..... Believe me it was a trully relief when the lights poped and sound came from my 650....
I even soldered a diode backwards, but lucky I realized that even before moving to the next one.....
I also desoldered a resistor thinking it was a capacitor... I got a little confused by my sight perspective..... LoL.... but no damages, I just put it back and problem solved.
Here goes a valuable tip for those who will still upgrade zero to franken:
- First Prepare caps with shrink wrap.
- Take some pictures from your Zero, specially the cables grey position, mark one of them so you know which one goes where on the white sockets.
- Start with Part 3 (headphone section upgrade), this will get you the confidence you need to go through the rest of the process and also gives you a great ideia of what is ahead.
- Then move to diodes switch.
- After that, you can replace caps in any order you want...
- The Last thing is to install the bypass caps. Think careful about the position you will fit then.... Try to stick to PP model because everytime I tried to make it different, I realized that PP already had done it the best way.
Well, I haven't done this way most of things in the process, so I know that following those steps will for sure spare you some rework, reduce risk of damaging new parts and even Zero.
