sennsay
1000+ Head-Fier
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Actually, dacava, that's a couple of great tips you have there! I hadn't thought of doing the amp first, because that was the least important part of the upgrade for me. The fact that the amp has improved remarkably has been a huge bonus and especially with the Denon cans. The Senns are still happiest with KHA in Mk I.5 mode.
I've always been in complete agreement that Pench and PP have done great service to the audio community that we love here!
S-Man
Originally Posted by dacavalcante /img/forum/go_quote.gif 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. |
Actually, dacava, that's a couple of great tips you have there! I hadn't thought of doing the amp first, because that was the least important part of the upgrade for me. The fact that the amp has improved remarkably has been a huge bonus and especially with the Denon cans. The Senns are still happiest with KHA in Mk I.5 mode.
I've always been in complete agreement that Pench and PP have done great service to the audio community that we love here!
S-Man