Small steps

[Covenant]

In the last month or two, I have has the supercap upgrade to my Caimen SEG, replaced the battery supply with a 15v linear one and changed the valve in my Croft power amp to Harma ECC83. All small improvements but collectively adding up to a very pleasant overall improvement. Spent about £100.
Anyone else had a similar experience with small changes to their system?

[Gazjam]

Absolutely Jerry,

Remember back in the day getting together with our old mucker DaveK on cap upgrades, case damping and other small stuff that in combination really lifted the performance of Stans earlier Dacs?

Cheap as chips, good fun and really brought good upgrades to the sound.
Absolutely witth doing, next up for me is fitting better binding posts to my speakers.

[MikeMusic]

I often find twiddling about, say supports under kit, mains socket, can have a larger effect than a kit upgrade.

'Course the system was already good. So maybe the twiddles built on that for you and me

[Covenant]

Absolutely Jerry,

Remember back in the day getting together with our old mucker DaveK on cap upgrades, case damping and other small stuff that in combination really lifted the performance of Stans earlier Dacs?

Cheap as chips, good fun and really brought good upgrades to the sound.
Absolutely witth doing, next up for me is fitting better binding posts to my speakers.

Yea, miss ol' Dave. He always confessed he knew nothing about hi fi but he soaked up lots of info on this site and others. Still got my Touch that we got cheaply on a group buy.
As you say, good fun.

[Puffin]

Yes, small steps are the order of the day as we get older! (I think you might have had another birthday recently?) I just love tinkering and making stuff with cheap boards off ebay. If they actually work - Great, if they sound any good - even better. You could spend more in Pizza Express on a meal for two with drinks and you have nothing to show for it....or listen to.

[Covenant]

Hi Rob,
Glad to see you are still messing around with the soldering iron. It doesn't have to be an expensive hobby if you are careful. Don't mention birthdays, getting close to retirement and the thought makes me nervous!

[Yomanze]

I added an AQVOX USB power supply to my Halide Bridge USB to SPDIF converter, which cost me under £100. It interrupts my laptop's USB power and feeds my converter with a dedicated supply. This was a nice welcome upgrade, could have spent a lot more & got a lot less...