Yang
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I just love the sound of this thing as it offers an alternative to my Sony D-303, not as warm, but more accurate, and liquid smooth. It sounds better than a CHA47 with average PCDP from headphone out (I didn’t really have a chance to fully test the line-out with my META42 yet, but it seems to be as good as you can get with a portable).
But man is it huge: almost twice the size of the D-303 and even more cumbersome than the D-555 from what I can remember. Since the DCP-100 was made to run on 1 or 2 of those old BP-E2X size lead acid batteries (which I don’t have nor plan to get), the thing wasn’t a real portable unit.
I really wanted it to run on some AAs like the D-303 since I have a ton of rechargeable batteries around. I did buy one of those 8AA battery holders (9.6V) for plugging into the 9V DC in, but it was just too much to carry with the wires especial considering I have an amp that works the same way with externally attached batteries.
I remembered the lead-acids to be 4V, so I took the thing apart, had a look inside and started a little project to make the unit run on 4AAs internally. Got it done today, so I was wondering maybe some others who have the unit might try it too (I know it is a rare unit and only a few others here have the unit).
Now it runs on 4.6V internally with rechargeable AAs. I was relieved that the unit seem to handle the extra juice pretty well. I ran it with repeat through 4 fully charged 1600mah Energizers and it lasted about 3-4hrs and sounds as good as ever.
Now all I need is to make it more shock proof. I read about something called “Sorbothane” here a while back, can someone please explain if it can help in this case?
But man is it huge: almost twice the size of the D-303 and even more cumbersome than the D-555 from what I can remember. Since the DCP-100 was made to run on 1 or 2 of those old BP-E2X size lead acid batteries (which I don’t have nor plan to get), the thing wasn’t a real portable unit.
I really wanted it to run on some AAs like the D-303 since I have a ton of rechargeable batteries around. I did buy one of those 8AA battery holders (9.6V) for plugging into the 9V DC in, but it was just too much to carry with the wires especial considering I have an amp that works the same way with externally attached batteries.
I remembered the lead-acids to be 4V, so I took the thing apart, had a look inside and started a little project to make the unit run on 4AAs internally. Got it done today, so I was wondering maybe some others who have the unit might try it too (I know it is a rare unit and only a few others here have the unit).
Now it runs on 4.6V internally with rechargeable AAs. I was relieved that the unit seem to handle the extra juice pretty well. I ran it with repeat through 4 fully charged 1600mah Energizers and it lasted about 3-4hrs and sounds as good as ever.
Now all I need is to make it more shock proof. I read about something called “Sorbothane” here a while back, can someone please explain if it can help in this case?