Xander
The XanMan is back!
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I don't do too many interesting projects that often anymore, but I figured this one was unique enough to add. Not sure if it's been done before, though I'd bet it has.
Not really DIY.. Sortof a mutilation project. Whats inside that you can see, is a OpAmp based amplifier, sortof like the cmoy but with a lot more balls. Changed the economy DAC to something much better, and fiddled with opamps in output stage too, as usual. Sounds a bit better than you're average stock CD player for about 130 dollars, but for $8 at a thrift shop + parts, not at all bad sounding! And a built in headphone amp, who can go wrong! I also mounted my own pot, as apposed to utilizing theirs (cheap) and used the existing headphone jack, though removed the pop-click filter they had on it, which sucked the life out of any signal passing through it.
I appologize for the horrid pictures, I have to post them locally on the server since I have no web space to put them, so the size and quality is limited, but it'll give you an idea of the horrific things done to this poor little player....
Not really DIY.. Sortof a mutilation project. Whats inside that you can see, is a OpAmp based amplifier, sortof like the cmoy but with a lot more balls. Changed the economy DAC to something much better, and fiddled with opamps in output stage too, as usual. Sounds a bit better than you're average stock CD player for about 130 dollars, but for $8 at a thrift shop + parts, not at all bad sounding! And a built in headphone amp, who can go wrong! I also mounted my own pot, as apposed to utilizing theirs (cheap) and used the existing headphone jack, though removed the pop-click filter they had on it, which sucked the life out of any signal passing through it.
I appologize for the horrid pictures, I have to post them locally on the server since I have no web space to put them, so the size and quality is limited, but it'll give you an idea of the horrific things done to this poor little player....