Thought I would share with you guys one of the pitfalls of modding stuff. There is a chance you can take something that works fine, and break it.
That’s what I did a few weeks ago. I made a few changes to my SACD 1000 (I know I should only make one change at a time, but that is too much hassle, and takes too long.) I make the changes at work, where I have better equipment, took the board home, put it back in, turned it on, and nothing.
Believe me, it’s a REALLY bad feeling to take something that used to sound really good, and break it. So, I take the board back to work, undo a change I thought caused the problem (removed an aftermarket clock I bought). Plugged the board back in that night, and still nothing. Now I’m really bummed.
That night, my wife asked me if anything was wrong, but I could not tell her I just broke the CD player.
So, back to the drawing board. By now, I am wondering how much SACD 1000’s are going for on Audiogon. Situation is bad. But, I sat down, and really looked at the remaining changes. I had tried to take the dac used for the rear channels, and feed it the same signal as the front two channels. I was thinking about paralleling dacs, and this was the first step.
When I looked at what I did, figured I had made a change I should not have. I undid that change the next day, took it home, and happy times, my SACD 1000 works again.
BTW, I now have the rear channel DAC outputting the front channel information.
Now, when my SACD 1000 was broken, I was thinking if I ever get it to work again, I am going to just enjoy it.
So, of course, now that it works again, I have already made another change to it since then (removed a relay), and am currently making a list of blackgates I want to add to the PS and DAC cards. I have already ordered some Sanyo OSCONS I am going to add the DAC card. But, I am not going to screw with the transport, can’t figure out how to take it out, and do not want to really break my 1000.
Randy
