Damn got an STX the other day and just had my first experience with the ring of death. Was wearing headphones and the volume suddenly went max and very distorted sound and high pitch squeal. I was using front headphone input but I tried the rear headphone and the noise was there too. Its...

Behold the ultimate modded SR60, over 10 years of mods have gone into this!      

  Quote:     well from your post I found the explanation its all a chemical reaction between the flux in my solder and the copper   this doc explains it all http://www.kester.com/Portals/0/Knowledge_Base_Articles/GreenCorrosion_Global.pdf   Quote:  

Quote: yes and i checked the thread every single day

yes its hot glue i used it a few weeks ago to keep the cables in place after soldering. now few weeks later its been attacked again by the green slime monster

y no1 relplied in 3 yrs i still get wet green goo it spread all through the cable http://img63.imageshack.us/f/img1782m.jpg

ok did the mod all hiss gone , i only had 47n caps is that going to make a difference? i used 300ohm on the output to get lower volume. sounds great to me im no sound buff but it sounds very much like my xonar dx which is loads better than my onboard and laptop sound

Quote: ah ok i see the LED flash now I will need to do the mod asap, its unusable with all this hissing and squealing I've got. apart from that I can already hear it is going to sound better than i thought it would

  Quote: Yes i just received mine and soldered headphone port to output like you and there is terrible background hiss when i connect my grado sr60. :(  so from the datasheet is it c11, c12, r5, r6 i need to add to eliminate hiss??   also does the LED on your board turn on? mine...

i opened up my grado headphone and theres all sticky green goo over one of the wires, the positive wire is all clean its just the ground has all crap over it. wat causes this and is it a problem