Tschaikowsky - Swan Lake

Anybody into Black Books?

Hit the 350... love it! So much more details, new things, that I couldn't hear before. I'll have to listen to my whole music collection again... The position of some instruments in the mix has definitely changed. The separation of instruments is amazing. There's a panning synth at the...

Just realised that Frankie does a good job on it's own, but benefits from a seperate amp. I've put my PA2V2 back in the system and it brought "Two Princes" back to life. Can't wait to hear the fully matured Frankie paired with a decent desktop amp.

Hi Peete, according to foobar, which I installed shortly after finishing the mod and used as only source, I'm somewhat around 120 hours +/- 20. Most of the time I had pink noise running. Either the pink noise sped the burning up or I'm in for some more surprises. Right now I'm a bit...

Sharleen Spiteri - Melody Lenny Kravitz - Greatest Hits Travis - Singles Sophie Ellis Bextor - Shoot From The Hip Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks Hole - Celebrity Skin Midge Ure - The Very Best Of Midge Ure & Ultravox Coldplay - Viva La Vida Prospekt's March Edition Jason Mraz - We Sing, We...

Heya, I lost track how many hours my Frankie is on right now, but at this very moment it's sound is pretty awful. It's like "put a blanket over everything and turn the bass all the way up". Soundstage is so narrow, just like the whole band stuck in a phone booth. Can't wait for the...

Pink Noise - Burn Frankie, Burn!

Just "watching" Armin Van Buuren - In And Out Of Love(channel mono). It's art, not just sonic art, but optic art as well.

Hi, I recently installed foobar and played a bit with those visualizations. I found the spectogram to be quite entertaining. Fullscreen, FFT 2048, both channels, scrolling, linear, green on black. Nice to see what you hear, especially with strong singers or solo instruments and...

Chopin - Nocturnes Coldplay - X&Y The Corrs - Best Of

R.E.M. - Monster R.E.M. - Up R.E.M. - Reveal R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi R.E.M. - Out Of Time R.E.M. - Automatic For The People R.E.M. - Murmur

R.E.M. - In Time

Hi, just wanted to let you guys know that everyting is back in place and WORKING!!! Put 2 new diodes,the removed cap and PIOs in, added 2 jumpers for the come-off leads, checked everything for shorts with my DMM and now it's as good as new. Thanks for the help! I won't post pictures...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pricklely Peete I'm not 100% sure but the lack of a second filter cap in the mains section may be the reason why the diodes cooked. I'm almost positive the circuit requires both caps...one being the +V reserve of the supply while the other is the -V (or 22V...

Hi, should the points in those blue circles be connected? Upper and mid circle are, but right now there is no connection to the burnt pad in the bottom circle. Since the board is pretty much burnt, I'm not sure if there's supposed to be a connection. It would connect the 3rd and 4th pin on...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pricklely Peete It looks like the diodes were bridged somehow (by the burn pattern on the pcb). Was there any stray solder between the two before you powered it up ? Check to make sure all the diodes and the mains filter caps are correctly oriented...

So, here we go. 2 traces and all 4 soldering eyes came off on the top side. That dent on the yellow cap was caused by the soldering iron when I put the diodes in. That couldn't have possibly something to do with the failure? I've found no other signs of burn or bad solder joints or...

It hasn't been moved since I turned it off. I turn it on, switch to coaxial input and the thing startes to smoke. Couldn't have been a short then? I've just opened it up and took some pictures first. As you can see there are sprinkles of solder and some black stains...

Hi guys, I need some help here. Yesterday the zero worked just fine. When I turned it on today, there was no sound and it suddenly began to send smoke signals. I opened it up and found some black stains around 2 diodes. I turned it on again to watch what happens. First everything...

Hi, I've just finished my FrankenZERO. Got the parts today and put them in directly. Getting out the old parts is a PITA sometimes, especially with those small electrolytic caps. Hat to solder a piece of cap-lead in and out to get rid of the solder from that tiny holes. Lost 2-3...

Hi, I'd like to bother you with yet another request for an amp recommandation. My current, incomplete, setup consists of the following: Pioneer DV-525 dvd player, slightly modded Zero DAC, will be frankenmodded plus alps pot and OP Moon K271S, K241S, SR60 I listen to almost...

Slipknot - Iowa Slipknot - Slipknot Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone Metallica - Black Album

My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade Newton Faulkner - Hand Built By Robots Del Amitri - Hatful Of Rain R.E.M. - In Time