Re: amp supply capacitors upgrade help

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:23:51 GMT, "Jerry Lynds" <jblynds@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>For curious minds...this is an old amp with a front face smothered with
>about 12 switches and knobs. With the exception of the pots, I never change
>a setting for things like loudness, subsonic filter, tape dubbing etc...so I
>am removing all unused settings and hard wiring them directly to the main
>board. All components not used like the phono board and mic/headphone have
>been removed. The pre-amp stage has been moved to the rear to save the
>bass/trebble controls but rarely used so out of sight but intact. The front
>has been given a new metal plate (overlaid on top of the old and mounted via
>the rack mount holes) now complete with only a power switch and a volume
>control, and a centre mounted Blue backlit 40x4 LCD (also why the pre-amp
>stage had to go to the rear). So, the amp will be hooked to my computer to
>display mp3 tag info like artist and track name, time remaining...anything
>winamp can generate including a 40 band graphic EQ. So..this is my project
>and the reason for taking this thing apart in the first place...Cheers


Until you mentioned the LCD I was quite impressed at your quest for
sonic improvement :-)

You LOOK at your amplifier?
.

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