Quote: Originally Posted by lan No the 1820m uses the computers power also. You can mod/hack rewire it to power it externally. Is it possible to totally remove the ground connection with the PC on the 1820m?

Quote: Originally Posted by Jon L I really like my Lynx PCI card, but I wish I could figure out which PCI pins supply the 12V rail, so I can rig up possibly a 12V SLA battery supply for it.. The Lynx card is fed 5V, 12V, -12V from the PCI slot. It already has pretty good...

Quote: Originally Posted by katalyst^ Is there any way to force Patchmix to install if you previously installed the drivers straight from device manager, rather than running their install program? None that I know of, but you can copy the files for the Patchmix in any dir, run it...

Quote: Originally Posted by TURBO I am having problems extracting those. Check if you can extract it. Thanks. Checked the RAR archive by downloading & extracting it, added ZIP download (see my previous post).

Latest version of the chopped down version of the drivers - newer than 1.71 (most files are took from an Audigy 4 Pro update (same drivers for most of their cards - yuck) on Creative's website and are dated 04/04/05) is here: RAR: http://rapidshare.de/files/1518876/E..._2005.rar.html ZIP...

Just tested on a new XP install/1212m without any hiccups so they should be safe to use.

Loading PatchMix without Effects Delete CTEDSPFX.dll file in the system32 folder or any other instance present in the Windows folder and subfolders. -------------------------------------------- Or, I also 'put up' a VERY chopped down version of the 1.71 drivers - only tested on the...

Not really a mod, but here's my 1212m "minimal" session for use with FOOBAR/ASIO/44khz (attached).

Quote: Originally Posted by zhoufang Lucpes, Good to hear that the bypassing helps, this means I still have headroom to grow since I haven't mod the bypass caps yet. Did you bypass from rail to rail for each opamp? The nearest ground I can find is quite a distance away. I'm planning...

I finished modding my card (caps modded as in the pics in this post http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showp...3&postcount=10), and only after a day or two the sound is magnificent. For opamps, I settled to OPA2107 (locally bypassed between the rails with 1.5nf mica - VERY important tweak)...

Regarding burn-in, I have found the same things, the 1212m really sounds better after a couple of days inside the PC. Regarding the on-topic subject (changing caps/modding, the capacitors will be here tomorrow so I'd better get a camera ).

I have the card hooked up to a pair of Infinity Reference Standard II speakers (old classics dating from '82 which I recently put through a rejuvenating process as in crossover/production wiring reworking, bass drivers refoaming and further cabinet strenghtening) and I like the soundcard very...

Sorry to hear that the mods sound rather bad... From my experience, use OSCON only for digital bypass/decoupling. For analog decoupling OSCON tends to sound too dry, even on the harsh side and a little bit too thin. It keeps details but it really kills dynamics and any sign of liveliness...

Also of interest is the c64 capacitor on the digital board. Situated on VR1 out, I think it feeds the two oscillators U7&U9 and the chipsets. Voltage is 3.3V or less. A large value OSCON here should help tame the bright character of the board.

The small SMD capacitors are X7R ceramics 0.01uf (1nF).