Here's my RMAA result, the frequency response is haywire, other looks great though

Audio Creation, if I mute them then how can I record it? Doesn't make any sense.....it won't register anything if I mute them

I know, I done just that, now its getting weirder, I get the perfect graph

How can you choose Line-In when you mute it? Mine doesn't register anything to be recorded, the level is -70dB no matter how hight I put the volume graph is

Yes of course, I done this million times before (I've played a lot of soundcard before), but still won't register much. Hmm, I'll look at it tomorrow, getting sleepy....

I done some modding, changed the DSP caps with 1000uF 16V Sanyo WG caps. Weirdly my soldering iron is not hot enough to melt the solder on negative point of the caps, resulting I put the caps on the back side of the card (I noticed this problem even on Live! cards)

It working great, I was worried that it might not work because firstly since I use a lot of heat to remove the bugger caps and secondly I use low ESR caps that it shuts down the regulator, but thankfully its not

Next might be to remove the stupid decoupling caps, but I afraid that the problem with negative point again. Maybe a wire behind the caps to short them works just as fine as removing them....?

EDIT: My mod is almost done, I removed the decoupling, short them, along with additional trodas mod on the card plus I don't use any opamp. It sounds great, but because there is construction work in front of my house, I can't really test the card fully

But I will against not using an opamp, when I change the volume it will pop and shut down my amplifier. So don't do it even though it sounds better. I plan to use LME49720 because I have no other choice

This post has been edited by Najmods: May 28 2008, 10:04 AM

Hehe, you're right. I'm crazy enough to do so

Well, finally my mod is done! Complete with LME49720 and a little more capacitor changes. The improvement is It sounded great sparkly, full with detail, airy. It sounded a lot better than my previous fully modded HD2 too Its a bliss, although I still have few more mods in mind, well I think its enough. My hand is shaken when I done this mod, I'm not fully recovered from fever yet

EDIT: Some picture for poisoning




This post has been edited by Najmods: May 28 2008, 01:21 PM

How much of what? The capacitance value or the price? RMAA is impossible, since I removed some of the caps on the line-in that is why I can't test the card for RMAA anymore Oh, I no longer bypassing the opamp, I use LME49720 now

If you really want it, I can resolder back the capacitor

This post has been edited by Najmods: May 28 2008, 06:15 PM

I've told you before, I take all those caps from dead soundcard or motherboard, I don't buy it. How to measure DC offset?

I'm not bothered with RMAA result anymore. that is why I don't solder them

Edit: I resolder them back just to test RMAA, here's the result



This post has been edited by Najmods: May 28 2008, 06:58 PM

I got negative values, -0.17V to be exact. I don't know what that means though

Anyone here knows what is the pinout for 3.5mm female gold jack on this X-Fi? I want to use RCA jack as primary out

Absolute zero, no reading at all (maybe because I disable rear channel I think), why do you ask?

EDIT: I checked it again with 5.1 enabled, it registered 0.002V

This post has been edited by Najmods: May 28 2008, 08:05 PM

its minus 170mV, not +170 mV

Furthermore I'm sure my Technics amplifier have DC offset protection

This post has been edited by Najmods: May 28 2008, 09:15 PM

I've edit my previous post. My Technics amp have DC offset protection, hehehe

I use 33uF tantalum caps on the 4 decoupling caps and measure the DC offset, its exactly 0.030V. Sound quality wise there is slight difference, no caps sound a bit better

I just used for testing, I'll short them back afterwards anyway. There is no problem with tantalum anyway, I used it on Prodigy HD2 before, it just sounds a bit bright thats all

I twill sound better than stock, but still not as good as shorting them

Edit: My X-Fi PureMusic™ is finally completed, my last mod is making RCA out



This post has been edited by Najmods: May 29 2008, 10:12 AM

Just got back from short vacation well thats a nice mod there UNDERGROUND, much better looking than my card that looks like someone who creates Frankenstein makes them

They are crap too, well, my card is made in Malaysia, which is weird. The soldering job on this card is the worse thing I see from a sound card, the caps are not perfectly perpendicular to the card, even the leg is sticking out and not perfectly flat on the card

I don't dare to mod other cards sorry, but if you need any info I can give it to you

I change some more capacitor, no tantalum now Will post the picture if I'm in the right mood to do so

Just one though Alright, here's the picture, it still looks crap but who cares about looks, it sounds awesome

Combination of solid caps + Sanyo OS-CON, and there's one Rubycon MBZ on the other side