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Modding rega is a little tuff. It's already been designed and listened to by some pretty talented people. I would remove the panasonic nhg and put the samwha back in. The samwha is probably a better cap for the circuit. I know this because I tried a similar swap in a rega cd player and...

I futzed around with the planet 2000 a bit and found that the electrical components while looking every bit as cheap as they are, actually sound really great together. I would not use the styrenes. What I would do is find the capacitor values of the DIGITAL part of the dac supply and the...

The amp has that warm and musical sound found in alot of 1970s gear. The amp also has a pretty good set of tone controls controling 50hz, 100hz, 10,000hz, and 20,000hz. My experience with elna is that they are typically a little rich and sweet sounding. Is it your opinion that the Aerovox is...

I've aquired a vintage pioneer sx-939 from a local dumpster:) The amp has 2 large elna 10,000uf caps that I'd like to replace. So I'm preparing an order with farnell. The choices are Bc components series 050, 051, or 106, Aerovox, or Epcos. Initially looking at Bc components but some like...