Cheap to Audiophile with Simple Hacks

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."

Comments

Cables

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Cables

[qengho]

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.

Re:Cables

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Re:Cables

[SA Stevens]

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.

Needs

[XFilesFMDS1013]

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...