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Posted by JOEY on June 27, 2001 at 07:16:47

In Reply to: CD player tweaks posted by Dimiter on June 27, 2001 at 05:02:56:

Hi Dimiter,

You could obtain improvement in a number of ways, here are some possibilities:

1. bypass the 47uF electrolytic in the output with a 0.1uF to 0.01uF polystyrene.

2. remove the 47uF electrolytic and replace it with a plastic film cap of atleast 6.8 to 10 uF, try to use metallised polypropylene caps (sometimes marked "MKP", e.g: Solen) and not metallised polyester (sometimes marked "MKS"). This cap should then be bypassed by a 0.1 to 0.01uF polystyrene.

I have had success with option 2.

I INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING FOR COMPLETENESS ONLY:
You could remove the cap entirely, BUT THIS CAN BE DANGEROUS to upstream equipment if the equipment does not contain an AC coupling capacitor at its input or the CD player ouputs significant(?)levels of DC. Also if you try the CD player on other equipment you may forget to check. SO PROBABLY leave this one alone.

Hope this helps,

HAVE FUN,

JOEY

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