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Cheap to Audiophile with Simple Hacks

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the soldering-frenzy dept.

petertrog writes "The IEEE has a story showing how you can turn a cheap DVD player into something that sounds a whole lot more exotic. All you need is a small budget, a soldering iron and a desire to void your warranty."

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  1. Cables by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nooo, you need MONSTER CABLES for the best quality! Aahhh, your signal!!

    1. Re:Cables by qengho · · Score: 5, Funny


      Nooo, you need MONSTER CABLES for the best quality!

      Pfft. Monster Cables are useless--useless, I say--if you don't have a US$1500 power cord:

      JPS Labs Kaptovator Power Cord
      Audio Magic Clairvoyant Power Cord

      Tweak the power supply all you want, but it's pointless without one of those.
    2. Re:Cables by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      How to become an audiophile with one easy hack:
      1. Open your skull and hack off your frontal lobe.
      If you've performed the hack successfully you'll believe that $3000/ft speaker cable is a good idea. Congratulations, you are now a fully qualified audiophile!
    3. Re:Cables by SA+Stevens · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, anybody who would buy one of those would probably have a seperate power generator in an auxillary building. In this building, pedigreed shetland ponies would run on a treadmill that fed a Swiss-made electric power generator with all silver in the armature windings.

      'Power conditioning' conjures up the notion of a bunch of inductors and digital shit, introducing yet MORE noise. It's fine for your server. Don't listen to anything connected to it.

  2. Needs by XFilesFMDS1013 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All you need is a small budget, a soldering iron and a desire to void your warranty.

    Small budget - After getting a new computer, I have that

    A soldering iron - Oh yeah, I've got that

    And a desire to void your warranty - My desire to void my warranty has never been greater...

  3. Re:What about the speakers? by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even better speakers.

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  4. More exotic DVD player by venicebeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, this is racy stuff. When I read the first line:

    When those of us who are into "gadget porn" look at the latest state-of-the-art home entertainment gear

    I didn't know what he was talking about until I got a little further:

    Taking the modification yet further, you can also replace both of the X-rated capacitors

  5. Re:Small budget, but cost of time... by sgant · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yet your time isn't too valuable to post to Slashdot about how valuable your time is.

    Foot...meet mouth.

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