Wish me luck

Got about half the parts in. It's taken me a long time to get up the nerve for this.

Tim

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

Czbbcl
I have done a fair amount of soldering in the past. It's not very difficult. Make sure you let the solder set a little bit with the heat applied or you will get a cold joint. The local Radio Shack has a 15/30 watt unit that sells for about $10. The solder sucker is about the same.

Dan_ed
I bought the parts from someone who does modes. I plan on doing some more in amonth or so.

Salectric
I didn't look at the type of resistors. I'll check later.
The sound.... Better separation.Blacker backgound. Definatly smoother. I have a couple "brighter sounding" records to play later. Only have a small amount of time to listen this morning.

Tim

My lp's are sounding better than ever. Getting to 200hrs burn in time. I think a couple more days should get the job done.

Tim