Wish me luck

When taking into account cost vs performance a modified EAR834P is very hard to beat.

I love my tweaked up EAR834P it is definetly worth the effort to do you won't regret it.

Time to go and plug this baby in.

What an improvement! I can't wait for this to breakin a little. Now I want to mod. everything.

List of parts I changed out:
R1 & R101
R2 & R102
R3 & R103
R9 & R109
R11 & R111
C1 & C101
C5 & C105
C7 & C107
D1 & D2

I used Hovland caps.,metal film 1% resistors,and hexfred diodes.

After a month or so,I will do a second stage mod. The amount of work that can be done to this pre. is endless.

Tim

Tim

Fantastic, so did you practice a bit with your soldering technique? Was it on a PCB that the Resistors, Caps and Diodes were mounted on? What kind of iron did you use and how did you use a combination of a soldering pump and wick to remove the old solder. Sorry for all the questions but I have considered modding my own CD player which would require large amounts of R&R of various resistors and capacitors.

Chuck

Chuck

Tim,

based on my experience with a modded 834P it will take 200-250 hours for the caps to open up. You're in for a real treat when they do! Did you source the parts yourself or did you buy a package?