Shanling
CD-T80
Copyright
2011 © Troels Gravesen
Vinyl is my main source of music, but I
do have a lot of CDs and care about what comes through. I bought this
player from
Cattylink/Hong
Kong and it's been a good workhorse for several years.
Some info can be found on diyAudio on tweaking the CT80 and the only
thing I have done is changing the output caps to silver/golds from
Jantzen Audio. I haven't tried changing the integrated circuits like
suggested from the link. I tried this with quite a few CD players over
the years and never really found much improvement.
Visitors have kindly brought in serious expensive CD players, but none
has convinced me that a new player was needed; this even goes for a
cutting edge 24 bit DAC.
Apparently most tweakers go for the op-amps or the buffer tubes, but
no one seems interested in the output capacitors, a bunch of
electrolytic caps! This would be my usual suspect and and do believe
my current silver/golds outperforms the electrolytic caps.
The 6N3P output tubes most likely never needs changing.
The Jantzen Audio
silver/gold caps. Here some prototypes, the current Jantzen Silver/Golds look
better.
I use 2.2 uF but you may have to check your line stage input impedance
if this is enough.
Unsolder the four
electrolytics and connect as seen on photo.
Final caps, 3.9 uF Jantzen Audio Silver/Golds
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