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    Xonar Essence ST Sneak Peek

    thoppa, any chance you'd be able to purchase it for me and ship it to Singapore? anybody found any place to order it for a good price? my searches are turning up short. argh.
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    UPGRADING THE CRYSTAL (X0) ON ESSENCE STX

    Hi GWorlDofSPACE, got inspired by your mods, and installed 3xBursons! but as you can see, I did it slightly different. I kept the sockets, and plugged in the Bursons, while aiming for the leads to be as short as possible. one of them had to be tilted a little. (see below) also the 2...
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    Dell Outlet - can somebody give me a hand here? :(

    Hi guys, it's been a while. recently stumbled one some nasty deals (eg. more than 50% off retail prices) at Dell Outlet (refurbished laptops, and other stuff) Well I have been trying to place an order for one at the Dell outlet, and the prices there are truly stellar! problem is: I'm in...
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    PPA builders' thread

    keep us updated voodoochile tangent, when's your site going to be updated for the step-by-step assembly page?
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    Review of Little Dot MKV Dual Mono Solid State Headphone Amplifier

    xnothingpoetic, thanks for the info.
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    Review of Little Dot MKV Dual Mono Solid State Headphone Amplifier

    Penchum, I know you absolutely ADDDOOORREEE your mkV, but I think some of us would really like to explore our options with different opamp 'flavours' if not my question regarding the opamps wouldn't have been asked before already! I've got 64ohm impedence on my JVC btw..
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    Review of Little Dot MKV Dual Mono Solid State Headphone Amplifier

    Quote: Originally Posted by Penchum They are in sockets, here: Have a good one! hey guys, joining in this thread late. Am just trying my HP-DX1000s with this and I notice the background hiss as 'dual' mentioned before. anybody else hearing hissssss? and yes, its there...
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    PPA builders' thread

    hey guys, anybody started on their PPA yet? Do share your experiences on this thread. me, I'm waiting for my PPA boards to arrive from tangent before I start trying to figure the whole thing out
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    cap suggestions for 0404

    pics: took sleepdan's suggestion's thats why there're those huge 1000uF caps at the back. I'm just wondering, will these large caps "slow" the sound down since they'll take longer to charge/discharge?
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    cap suggestions for 0404

    I've no idea what the exact lead size is man.. but the cap is 16x25mm..maybe the NX-es have smaller leads?
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    cap suggestions for 0404

    Quote: Originally Posted by lan Sweet. I need to see pics because these large caps never fit for me. Unless your card has bigger holes or something. Then again I had the first 0404, 1820m, and 1212m when they came out. Maybe the new revisions are somewhat different? Well you shouldn't...
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    cap suggestions for 0404

    well my blackgates finally arrived, after 2 long weeks, from Canada. plopped them all in (Ian, the 1000uF 25v NX fits!) When I first took a listen, I thought I hadn't put my headphones on properly or something, there was something distinctly different about the sound! hadn't noticed this...
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    cap suggestions for 0404

    33uf 6 x 11mm 100uf 13 x 20mm 470uf 16 x 24mm <--this is the same size as the 25v 1000uF NX and they aren't NX-es. I wanted a pure NX, NX-hiQ recapping lol. (the other caps as I said, are gonna be the 6.3v NX-HiQs which are reasonably small) I'll post back with some pics once my stuff...
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    cap suggestions for 0404

    I was actually thinking of cutting off the leads and wiring it into the holes with wires heh. anyway, as I said, there really aren't many choices for blackgate Ns >12v maybe I should stick os-cons there huh. shucks, I was hoping for an all-blackgated 0404
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