Posted on Sunday, 10th May 2009 by Auw Jimmy

I have received so many emails asking about how to do the mods. Why I do this? Why I do that? Etc… Ok, I will spend my lazy evening to use one good example and write a simple tutorial here. Just enjoy.

I look around my room to find a good and easy example to support this tutorial. Then, my eyes stunned to my old Simbadda CST z120 Dual-O speaker set. Well, it a small speaker, you can’t call it audiophile or even near it. I open the case and find that this small “thing” could become our perfect object.

You can get at your near computer retailer for very cheap price, less than US$10, I think. Feel free to find any other object. I pick this one simply because this is the only thing that I can find at my room (and suitable for this experiment).

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Tags: Capacitor, mod, pc audio, Simbadda, speaker
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Posted on Sunday, 10th May 2009 by Auw Jimmy

After around 20 hours testing of my previous Asus Xonar U1 Mods, I think I need to add some more mods here.

I have some plans here:

• Old Blu-Tack tricks
• PSU capacitors bypassing

Since 20 hours is not enough to listen complete characters of my previous mod, so we can eliminate the 2nd option. Let’s go with the first option, the Blu-Tack tricks. I’ve done this Blu-Tack mod before, please check it.

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Tags: Asus, Capacitor, mod, pc audio, usb, xonar u1
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Posted on Friday, 8th May 2009 by Auw Jimmy

Yesterday, it was at 00:00 am at the morning and I just couldn’t close my eyes. I’ve planned to mod my Asus Xonar U1, but never thought I would do it yesterday, in the middle of the night

Asus Xonar U1 is a “cheap” USB sound card, powered by C-Media Nitrogen D2 audio processor. The photo as below Cute with red/blue blinking lighting.

I want to put a warning first. Actually, modding such card will not bring outrageous result. So consider this mod is only for fun, huh… If you have extra capacitors on your shelf, extra time, and extra skill to de-solder those small capacitors inside. Let’s begin!

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Tags: Asus, Capacitor, mod, pc audio, usb, xonar u1
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Posted on Friday, 1st May 2009 by Auw Jimmy

I digged my old boxes and found this old vintage capacitor, Nippon Chemicon RWE 820uF/550VDC. Very big in size (a little bit bigger than my ASC 40uF/440VAC and surely a giant compared to AA battery). This electrolytic capacitor is a legend one, made for inverter application. Equipped with screw type terminal, this capacitor is really ready to rumble.

Tags: ASC, Audio, Capacitor, DIY-Audio, nippon chemicon
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