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In Reply to: RE: One of the neat things about this hobby ... posted by John Elison on August 13, 2016 at 12:51:39:
...and I bet it sounds sweet too. Glad to hear you are happy with it. Nothing beats a satisfying change to the system.
I stopped "upgrading" a few years ago, when I realized "good enough" was good enough. That's when I slowly started "downgrading". I bought and sold a bunch of gear to get where I ended up. It was fun finding a system that cost little, yet was good enough for me to thoroughly enjoy music through. As you know, its all about synergy ...I was hunting for the right combination of gear. I even bought a CD player ! I hadn't had one in years.
As a side note, when I bought the C2a I have now, I purposely bought a dead, but cosmetically excellent unit ...in other words, it was cheap. I then gave it to a buddy of mine with his mission being to make it as good, or better, than new. I gave him carte blanche.
He installed upgraded caps in both power supplies and both phono stages, as well as in the moving coil head-amp. He calibrated the regulated power supply, DC balance of the phono stage, the DC balance of the line amp stage and the stage bias current. All Molex connectors for input and output connections to the main board were cleaned. Solder joints in critical paths were removed and replaced with silver solder. In total, 66 parts were replaced/upgraded.
It sounds nice ...listening to it is even more fun than reminiscing about it. ;-)
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
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- Your new preamp looks sweet ... - reelsmith. 08/13/1613:52:45 08/13/16 (0)