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Ne vous en faites pas. Si nous ne savons pas, on demande, n'est-ce pas? (I'm assuming since you're sometimes in France you can read French )
The simple answer is that the Black Gates are far too big to fit inside the case. What you could do is similar to what ishtob did: you could drill some holes through the front plate of the iPod so that the caps stick out of the front. Not as visually pleasing, but pretty cool if you do it right. That way you get to show off your sweet caps too.
You are right I'm french.
Ok so I will put the BG in the LOD. Don't want to drill anything . Like that I will also modify a dock with huge caps
But I will only do it in the end of january when I will go back France
Work in progress :
modding my MS2 :
- change pads on headphile by black one : done
- recable with a removable cable : done
- wood cups : done
- Lambskin headband : waiting for Fatman packet ;)
I tried to only remove the caps, still getting that scroll click. Then, I removed the inductors and the scroll click disappeared. In conclusion, if you want a best signal without glitches you must remove the caps next to the dac and the inductors going the the dock.
Last edited by jERiCOh; 12-15-2007 at 01:49 AM.
Reason: UPDATES
The RWA/ALO collaboration only happened with the iMod 5G. Further, the iMod nano 1G only happened once as a custom job for drp. As for the dock, checking out Apple iPod dock interface pinout and signals @ pinouts.ru shows that there are no unused pins. Aside from that fact, ALO takes the line out signals from the same place as every other analogue iPod dock. The iMod 5G dock simply replaces the dock's output, such as jERiCOh has shown us here. If you can figure out a way to get the line out feed straight from the WM8975 to the dock, then do share. You could route the wires to the dock, but I couldn't tell you too specifically how. Send the feed from C53 to pin 3 and C54 to pin 4.
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Sorry Bobby, I assumed you knew how this mod worked...my fault. I understand what he is doing, but your question was worded kinda weird so I didnt understand what you were saying; jericho explained it in a pretty good way.
Well I couldn't squeeze everything in, but the tic tac container that joneeboi made up was a good one! Some of the first pics are of me assembling it, so it looks like a mess!
Sound Impressions: DiyiModNano
WOW! Thats all I can say. It sounds rediculously better than the headphone out, and even the lineout! The resolution has been upped by at least 5 times! I am in awe. I listened to a 128kbps song and it was that much better. You can really hear the low bitrate so be careful! I put my headphones back into the headphone jack just to tease and it sounded flat and muffled. This is just insane! And im not even using blackgates, im using another non-polar brand...not sure, I'll have to check. Here are some pics!!!!! Thanks joneeboi.
There is a little excel file I made to match caps to your amp. I dunno if it's gonna be useful to someone but I found it useful in my research of "boutique" caps. Enjoy!
What is the right way to measure amp impedence? Just to be sure.
The RWA/ALO collaboration only happened with the iMod 5G. Further, the iMod nano 1G only happened once as a custom job for drp. As for the dock, checking out Apple iPod dock interface pinout and signals @ pinouts.ru shows that there are no unused pins. Aside from that fact, ALO takes the line out signals from the same place as every other analogue iPod dock. The iMod 5G dock simply replaces the dock's output, such as jERiCOh has shown us here. If you can figure out a way to get the line out feed straight from the WM8975 to the dock, then do share. You could route the wires to the dock, but I couldn't tell you too specifically how. Send the feed from C53 to pin 3 and C54 to pin 4.
Ok. Yeah I just realized what jERiCOh did. That's exactly what I want to do, but I'm not sure either. That would be the best solution for the nano in my opinion.
The RWA/ALO collaboration only happened with the iMod 5G. Further, the iMod nano 1G only happened once as a custom job for drp. As for the dock, checking out Apple iPod dock interface pinout and signals @ pinouts.ru shows that there are no unused pins. Aside from that fact, ALO takes the line out signals from the same place as every other analogue iPod dock. The iMod 5G dock simply replaces the dock's output, such as jERiCOh has shown us here. If you can figure out a way to get the line out feed straight from the WM8975 to the dock, then do share. You could route the wires to the dock, but I couldn't tell you too specifically how. Send the feed from C53 to pin 3 and C54 to pin 4.
Ok. Yeah I just realized what jERiCOh did. That's exactly what I want to do, but I'm not sure either how to do it either. Like you suggested I could just route the wires to pin 3 and 4. But will the original line out signals for 3 and 4 interfere with the signals from the WM8975? I think jERiCOh said we could cut the traces.
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. Like that I will also modify a dock with huge caps 
