Hi De Hi!

[Flied Egg]

Somewhere in the 90's between moving houses I managed to lose my vinyl collection so I recently embarked on starting over but this time with CD's.

Trouble was - they sounded awful.

However I persevered and got a Bravo tube headphone amp which improved the sound really well - and then found out that it could be modified to sound even better:).

So after a quick bit of soldering and desoldering practice in went some new mosfets and pots and I was hooked on the whole upgrade lark.

Currently have built a Tda 1543 DIR9001 DAC kit with mods suggested here and a hard wired Tda1543 CS8412 DAC with separate psu's the analogue and digital sections.

Not bad for someone who didn't know what a capacitor was 8 weeks ago!

[Puffin]

Hi Fleggy (Pete)

DIY is great init. I have hung up my soldering iron now, but in a few short years I made several Gainclones (from scratch!), modded several Dacs and CD players, modded many ClassD amps and made some humongous horn speakers. Of course it all sounded fantastic!

Welcome.

Rob.

[Barry]

Welcome to AoS Pete.

Congratulations on you new-found DIY skills. You will find yourself in good company here - we have many DIY'ers, ranging from those who assemble their own interconnects or build turntable plinths at one end, to those that design amplifiers, preamplifiers and speakers at the other.

What sort of music do you like to listen to through your system?

Enjoy the forum

Regards

[pjdowns]

Welcome to the forum Pete :)

[jollyfix]

Hi Pete
welcome to AOS.

[Yomanze]

Awesome username Pete, welcome. :)