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Apple Music Streaming – It’s a No Go For Me

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Apple Music

So I gave Apple Music streaming a try. Being able to just search for music and add it to my playlists sounded like a good idea. After a while the recommendations becomes rather good as well, giving me some tips of other bands I might like. But here’s the problem I have with Apple Music. When you sync your music via iCloud, you can no longer sync music via iTunes! And to be able to download music locally from Apple Music to your phone, you must use the “in the iCloud” solution. Catch–22 anyone?

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Modifications to the Gigaworks Ebay DAC

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This is the filter changes I did to the Gigaworks DAC to remove the second opamp and to straighten out the filter section of the DAC.

You can see the original values and the values that I changed to in parenthesis. Just tap the signal from the lifted resistors (and maybe add output caps of 4.7uF) The before/after RMAA tests of the modifications can be found here.

Testing the Gigaworks DAC with mods

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I’ve been modifying my Gigaworks Ebay DAC and think that the results is really showing. The second opamp is completely removed, the filter is changed to Cirrus Logics filter example from their prototype board and the first opamp is replaced with GD-Audio’s Earth discrete opamp. It sounds absolutely marvelous. Here’s the before and after graphs.

Mods and upgrades on a Pioneer PD S-505 for better audio quality part 1

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Pioneer PD-S505

Part two of this series is now up. Read on how to install a better clock in your Pioneer PD S-505 CD player.

## Mods your Pioneer PD S-505 CD Player for better sound quality

So I bought this Pioneer PD S-505 for $40 to test how good audio quality I’m able to squeeze out by modifying it. But It will not be just the standard subjective judgement of improvement but also measurements. Back in 2000 you had to pay about $400 for it. It uses the stable platter which means you have to put the CD in upside down. So let’s get going.

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