Wah!. I think it'll sound different with the huge output caps, but unsure what improvements can be heard with all the other caps. I sometimes think the original surface mounted caps are already good enough and changing them to others may not bring great benefit. The output cap does..though!.

Goodness me?... your soldering?... could you do better and for goodness sake you could make use of solid core copper wires taken from Astro coaxial cable. Use your flat pliers to make straight links out of the coax. It'll look a lot neater.

Oh well, allow me to advise you that its all delicate inside there and hope you don't do like that all the time where damage to the PCB can be irreversible...more damage than good. Buy a soldering iron with different bits and make use of some solder flux to obtain a better soldering point. Practice makes perfect. Good luck man!.

P.S. Truthfully I hate sockets and socketed chips. They just attract more noise.

This post has been edited by bsl555: Jul 13 2008, 10:10 PM

Yes!.. nuture somebody into a real "modder" not "hacker"!.

Whenever you replace NE553x or those jellybean NJM4558,2068,2114 with something better from NS or BB, you can be damn sure to hear a significant improvement. I can never accept any of those jellybeans in any of my hardware that deploy them.