[swt61]

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Originally Posted by Ori One thing is really working in your favor... My wife is a displaced Juneau gal... She'll kill me if I'm nasty to you! No problem. That Zhaolu has taken many by a surprise, myself included!

I'm not sure how long she's been away, But tell her I helped build the Mendenhall mall. Juneau is the most beautiful city in Alaska, maybe anywhere. Glad to hear our stateship influences your decision!

Does your discrete output mod work with the balanced outputs?

 

[Ori]

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Originally Posted by swt61 I'm not sure how long she's been away, But tell her I helped build the Mendenhall mall. Juneau is the most beautiful city in Alaska, maybe anywhere. Glad to hear our stateship influences your decision!

I learned very quickly: once Alaskan, always Alaskan! She's displaced for over thirty years now but still calls Juneau "home"...
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Does your discrete output mod work with the balanced outputs?

Yes it does...

You just have to ask for the balanced version, which is almost the same minimalistic circuit as the RCA version.

 

[swt61]

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Originally Posted by Ori I learned very quickly: once Alaskan, always Alaskan! She's displaced for over thirty years now but still calls Juneau "home"... Yes it does... You just have to ask for the balanced version, which is almost the same minimalistic circuit as the RCA version.

Yep that's right! Alaskan forever!

I'm drooling on myself over this mod!

 

[RogerWilco]

Only when i thought things could not get much better here comes ori with his descrete output mod.

Running in class a with no feedback.


Well i recieved ori's modded 2.0 dac yesterday.I was going to wait longer before i posted--could not wait.

This dac has reached another level of Transparency.Midrange has nice body with Incredible speed and detail.The bass is well defined and much stronger--this is a much more refined dac now.

This is truly a world class sound to be matched now--don't crawl don't walk run to your nearest ori--

 

[philodox]

Can you take some pics of the mod? I've been considering this myself, but am weighing my options.

 

[granodemostasa]

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Originally Posted by philodox Can you take some pics of the mod? I've been considering this myself, but am weighing my options.

Ditto
i'm very excited about mine, but the suspense of waiting is killing me! would love to hear impressions on yours (maybe comparisons and pics).

 

[philodox]

I'm also wondering if anyone has considered the ZapFilter Mk2 output stage? It can be purchased from Parts ConneXion [a sponsor here] for around $215 US and has recieved great reviews in lots of CD players and DACs. I wonder how it would compare with what Ori has whipped up?

 

[device manager]

Anyone have an idea what the benefit the caps, resistor, and a possible disconnected diode are doing? It looks like the black diode came unsoldered.

High resolution image: http://www.elitekiller.com/headfi/DSC00425.jpg

 

[Ori]

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Originally Posted by device manager Anyone have an idea what the benefit the caps,

Eddie adds these caps - and you lucked out!!! The leads of these caps are very long. Bend them so they touch and solder. Done? You've just bypassed the DC-blocking caps - the easy way!

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resistor, and a possible disconnected diode are doing? It looks like the black diode came unsoldered.

That's a wire with a ferrite bead. Don't touch it!

 

[device manager]

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Originally Posted by Ori Eddie adds these caps - and you lucked out!!! The leads of these caps are very long. Bend them so they touch and solder. Done? You've just bypassed the DC-blocking caps - the easy way!

Couldn't I just unsolder those red caps as well, and then use wire in their place?

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That's a wire with a ferrite bead. Don't touch it!

One end is not soldered. See how it is off the the right of the trace? I assume I need to solder it back. Correct?

Thanks for the info!

 

[device manager]

OMG the traces on the PCB appear to be burnt off in the two areas that I circled in green at the top. They are attached in the top of the pcb though. It's one of those black things that attaches to the big black heatsink. I also see a burnt up area in the middle that is circled in green. A purple sanyo oscon 68/20 cap connects there. What to do?

 

[seticruncher101]

how did you remove the 5-pin power connector from the board, i was able to remove everything except that one. it only goes up a little and it gets stucked.

did you just use brute force?

thanks for posting the pic.

 

[RogerWilco]

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Originally Posted by philodox Can you take some pics of the mod? I've been considering this myself, but am weighing my options.

I have not yet purchased another camara.After falling in the water on a trip my last one has died.I will attempt to get a picture posted though.

 

[device manager]

Yea it was a booger to remove so I just kept pulling a twisting it a tiny bit.

 

[RogerWilco]

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Originally Posted by granodemostasa Ditto i'm very excited about mine, but the suspense of waiting is killing me! would love to hear impressions on yours (maybe comparisons and pics).

Your in for a big surprise when you recieve you modded dac from ori.