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post #971 of 978
4/19/12 at 4:45am
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Originally Posted by cyberspyder View Post

This mod is no longer recommended and not supported by members of OCN. Perform at your own risk


why not? frown.gif
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post #972 of 978
4/19/12 at 10:13pm
i need an advice . i would like to get an AD8066 opamp to use it in my X-FI PRELUDE . i'm doing right ? or i will damage the sound card .
i don't know about opamp's voltages .
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post #973 of 978
4/20/12 at 2:12am
This mod is no longer recommended and not supported by members of OCN. Perform at your own risk

Mostly because there are better and cheaper cards out now. Buy a good card and save your $, time and card. You don't need to do all this work.
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post #974 of 978
4/20/12 at 6:38am
The mod is no longer supported simply as you need to be fairly knowledgable and profecient with a soldering iron to perform the mod. That paired with the ease of purchasing a better card for around the same price as selling your x-fi plus what you would spend for parts makes it a no brainer to upgrade to a better base card

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post #975 of 978
4/20/12 at 2:01pm
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The mod is no longer supported simply as you need to be fairly knowledgable and profecient with a soldering iron to perform the mod. That paired with the ease of purchasing a better card for around the same price as selling your x-fi plus what you would spend for parts makes it a no brainer to upgrade to a better base card
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post #976 of 978
4/21/12 at 5:00am
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Sup Soloz, long time no see! Am I doing a good job taking over here? tongue.gif

Sure look to be! I just found I no longer had the time. I haven't been on my computer as much over the last year or so. Took a promotion at work, moved... lots of other things taking up my time!

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post #977 of 978
4/30/12 at 9:39am
too bad, cause i'm enjoying my Xfi Mod, it looks ugly with all big capacitor all over the board, but now i can sleep soundly knowing my Xfi won't fail over a very long long time...
@bravo 5.
AD8066 is a good mod, but there are a bunch of amps which have a superior spec than ad8066, such as OPA2211, i think this opamp on par with X fi prelude capable off...
I don't say AD8066 is a bad op amp, cause i personally tested AD8066 on my xfi xtreme music, biggrin.gifthumb.gif . But AD8066 is actually for video purpose and a very fast opamp, meaning requires precision assembly.
Mine is SMD type ad8066 soldered directly to Xfi PCB , using hot air soldering
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5/1/12 at 1:37pm
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I just did this mod on a $20 xtreme music, about $20 in parts and sounds better than any other sound card I've owned.
That's not saying much, but it sounds awesome through my old $60 Philips surround that was a wal-mart display model biggrin.gif. It definitely became more clear/crisp and lost a lot of the muddiness as stated it would.
I had never soldered on a pcb in my life before this mod and learned it's a terrible pain if you accidentally order the larger op amp.
Just used a $15 radio shack soldering iron that I ground the tip down on (to make it smaller) and some fine real lead solder.
One more thing as everyone states getting the solder out of the holes where the cap goes takes forever even with solder wick, I ended up poking a needle through it to finish cleaning it out.

I just did it cause it was a cool project though smile.gif
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