Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by Auw Jimmy

I dig my parts bin and found some resistor values which I needed to upgrade my Aikido. I used three brands here, Riken RMG “Metal Film”, Shinkoh “Tantalum”, and Kiwame “Carbon Film”.

Lets fire up the soldering iron

I removed all the PCB from the “temporary chassis” (would find a suitable chassis soon). Then, after removing all the resistors, I plugged them back.

I also changed the volume control to DACT 100K 24-steps Attenuator. A nice volume control! Definitely better staging and transparency compared with my old ALPS.

The final shoot of the modification. I didn’t cut the resistor’s leads because this modification was still on progress. Some values might be changed and I didn’t want to waste my parts (especially for the expensive US$ 8 for the Shinkoh).

Tags: Aikido, DACT, resistor
Posted in DIY Audio | Comments (10)

10 Responses to “Resistors Upgrade on Aikido”

1. aphinx Says:
   September 28th, 2009 at 09:30

   wauw … shinkoh tantalum-nya cantik beneeerrr …

   
   
   
2. Jimmy Auw Says:
   September 28th, 2009 at 22:36

   Menurut saya malah paling jelek dan tidak menarik… :p

   
   
   
3. Chandm Says:
   October 5th, 2009 at 13:42

   Upgrade resistornya satu-satu atau sekaligus Pak, kan pingin tahu juga peran masing-masing merek R tadi terhadap perubahan karakter suara.

   
   
   
4. Jimmy Auw Says:
   October 5th, 2009 at 21:58

   Satu demi satu donk Pak hehehe… tapi ga saya jelasin satu per satu… karena proses tweaking baik tipe maupun pemilihan nilai Resistor itu sendiri tidak mudah.

   Thanks.

   
   
   
5. enoch Says:
   October 15th, 2009 at 11:50

   Pak Jimmy,
   resistor nya bisa d dapat d mana ya d Jkt?
   thanks,
   enoch

   
   
   
6. Jimmy Auw Says:
   October 15th, 2009 at 17:17

   Di Harco atau LTC ada Pak.
   Thanks.

   
   
   
7. borgs Says:
   July 15th, 2010 at 18:54

   in ur experience, which resistor is most suitable in which appliction
   1. Shinkoh – tantalum
   2. Riken – metal film
   3. Kiwame – carbon
   hope to hear from your experience

   
   
   
8. Jimmy Auw Says:
   July 19th, 2010 at 22:55

   Hi Borgs,
   It depends on your application/tube/etc. Hard to say what’s the best without knowing more details first.
   Thanks.

   
   
   
9. beautox Says:
   August 17th, 2011 at 13:17

   In the past I built identical aikidos with riken, shinkoh and Vishay resistors.

   Riken sounds OK. Vishay are the best. Shinkoh are very coloured and not good at all.

   imho

   
   
   
10. Auw Jimmy Says:
    August 19th, 2011 at 13:00

    Almost there is no such best stuff… some good, some bad… but best? really only very few could be considered as ‘best’…

    Thanks.

    
    
    

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