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Originally Posted by Doorknob
Finished doing my first DIY audio soldering project. This is something even a complete newbie can do, just replace and bypass caps.
I'd say it took about a total of 6 hours to complete the whole mod. 1 hour for the head amp and the HDAM cap mod, then the rest 5 hours without almost any breaks to complete the main board. Do your back a favor and take breaks every one hour or so.
After it was done, I hooked it up and crossed my fingers, hoping the unit wouldn't explode into millions of mini firecrackers. First music I've fired up, there was more detail and lower bass was much more improved as in you can hear some notes you couldn't before with the un-soldered Zero. Soundstage might've improved. As of right now, I don't hear much differences between the un-soldered and the soldered Zero and am waiting for the burn in time to come.
If the next 24 hours brings me double the joy, then this will surely be a killer bang for the buck unit.
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Yes, it's really not hard, my problem was with the solder sucker......
It was not taking all solder out properly.... so I had to heat the solder points and pull all parts out..... to place de new ones was the same problem... heat and push one "leg" at a time.....
This was painful... in total I must have spend 10 hours doing it....
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Originally Posted by DaMnEd
It would be interesting to see RMAA results for the Frankie and comparing them to the a "usual" ZERO, RMAA figures are not a be all and end all result as to SQ, but it can point out possible problems, I have never seen RMAA for any Zero let alone the Frankie!
Anyone with a Frankie/zero and a proper soundcard for RMAA?  |
The problem is: Why someone with enough money to buy a Lynx would buy a Zero ? Maybe some magazine would do it if only they knew zero..... I think it isn't still much popular....