Doh, I posted this in the wrong forum! Should of course be portable audio. - Thanks for moving! The HDD on my trusty old 40GB 4G greyscale Ipod seems to be failing. You know the symptoms, HDD spinning up, then clicking followed by spindown. Repeat ad nauseam. A hard reset has brought the...

As described in this thread: http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=161993 my Ipod developed massive DC-offset on the lineout. So I started poking around inside the Ipod. At first I intended to replace the obviously broken output caps, but then, some four weeks ago, I rather bought...

Well my amazing IPod surprised me with a new "feature". It now has about 1.5V (sic!) of DC-Offset (right channel, left channel only boasts 1.3V). Theoretically this allows me to run a small flashlight from the output - nice, but still... Seriously now, somethings got to be broken in...

Hi there! I've recently (finally... ) finished my Pimeta. (Btw. I like how it sounds quite a lot, and tip my hat to Tangent and the great people here in the DIY-section.) It runs off a 20V AC Power-adapter regulated by a Tread. Now I figured it would be convenient to also power my Ipod...

Hi guys, I've searched the forums and it seems I'm the first one to run into serious trouble while building a TREAD. Makes me feel a bit foolish but here it is in detail: I stuffed the board according to the schematic and Tangent's excellent guide. Part values are: R1 120R R2 1K R3...

Hi fellows, So it's "lurking mode off" for me again... Seems I spent way too much time in the DIY forum section and decided to build a Pimeta. Now I've run into problems aquiring decent input capacitors: First of all I couldn't find suitable polyproppylene film/foil (FKP) caps at any...

Well, this may be a stupid question, but well: Anybody tries to embarass himself as best he may... I'd like to plop two Nimh rechargeables into my Cmoy instead of using Alkalines. The thing is: I read once that one should never, ever deep-discharge a nimh battery below 0.6 or so Volts per...

I'm looking for a upgrade from my soundstorm onboard sound in the 100$/90€ range. I don't have any sort of external amplification, so i would be relying on the card to reasonably drive my cans (Beyerdynamic DT440). I also want coax digital out to connect to my speakers. Searching the...

Hi Folks! I'm looking for my first "serious" headphones. They would be used with my pc and the ipod (so: no amp) for listening to lots and lots of rock/altrock with a sprinkling of metal, classic and pop stuff like Tori Amos or Sting. Unfortunately I'm on a bit tight budget (Euro ~80 /...