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Re: Were to buy Oscons in the US

Those are way to expensive im looking to spend no more than a few bucks a piece. the caps are the power supply filter caps after the rectifiers and before the regs. They dont need to be super audiophile parts, just better than the standard brown elnas that are in there now. I will most likely go with PAnny FC. I have had great results with these caps in the past. I bypass them underneath the board with a .1uf smd poly or x7r ceramic depending on if its a digital or analogue supply.

Im a strong beleiver that simply swapping in a expensive "audiophile" part is really a waste of money unless its in the signal path. So in
power supplies I tend to use good caps like the Panasonic FC, Oscon, Wima but not "audiophile" parts. The parts swap/upgrade is really just the first and probably least important of the mods I have planned. I just picked up a mint cd53 for $3o and i will be startiing from scratch on this player. Here is what i plan on doing.


1. basic parts upgrades, caps, resitors, opamps, rectifier, remove output transistors and caps, Iec socket..etc

2. Add one of these upgraded clocks
http://us.hifidiy.net/Article.asp?ArticleId=170#

3. Upgrade +-12v rails for the analogue section with Audiocom super regs.
4. Upgrade 5v rails giving the dac and decoder thier own regulators and tranny with dual secondaries digital on one, analogue on the other.



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