lake_eleven;660316 Wrote: > Congrats on your success. > I too did the mods a 2 weeks back. I am hard pressed to hear any > difference before and after the mod. I scratched my Touch a lot > though:(. > > What I did is, I did not remove the caps. Instead I dropped chunks of > solder starting from the bottom on one side to the bottom of another > side. This I did for both the caps. I did this way because I did not > know how to remove the caps. > > Did you remove the caps and then connected them in the middle?. Is this > a better way than leaving the caps as it is but shorting them?
Thanks......sorry to hear about the damage....I thought I read that just short circuiting the caps was ok. I'm not qualified to say if there would be any audible difference between the two methods, but I personally just wanted a clean look and didn't want to risk damaging the pcb on the outer edges of the cap area. To remove a cap, I placed the soldering tip briefly on the solder pads on both sides of the cap, and used a needle nose pliers to wiggle the cap back and forth gently. (like pulling a tooth....ha) It starts out a bit stiff but loosens nicely with a bit of heat as you go until it breaks free from the solder pads. It was a clean separation with no apparent damage. Then, because the gap is so tiny, just put a blob of solder on the soldering iron tip and placed it into the gap to complete the bridging of the solder pads. It looks just like the photos from the other poster. Anyway, I am hearing a substantial difference, but I am only using a transparent and high resolution headphone/amp setup and not speakers. -- Stilly77 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stilly77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43680 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83412 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
