this looks awesome! if i get a spare bit of cash i think i will take a few of these, great work! it has the factory look that i have always wanted

Here's the pre-order link for the kits:

http://apeshit.bigcartel.com/product/pc … -pre-order

The price went up even higher on the jacks so the price of the kits will unfortunately have to be raised. The price increase with happen on Friday. I did the math and at this price, I'm just barely breaking even with them. (But taking sample rates into consideration, I'm actually not breaking even)

After the pre-orders are done, these will not be sold as kits. There may be another run in the future, but as of right now, a pre-order is the only way to get one, then the remaining ones will be exclusive to my commissions.

I was trying to find out if they were perhaps bigger than they needed to be because of a too high voltage rating.

Thanks man! That's what I was doing before too. Then I started etching my own boards and that was extremely tedious which eventually lead me to this.

The caps are 100uf and 6.3v, same as the stock ones. Would you suggest a change?

That's indeed a good placement for a jack. I've done a couple P******* mods where I've glued the jack to the back of the battery compartment with super glue. Has worked for me.

Now tell me, what's the capacitance and voltage rating on those caps?

Actually, it was more so because someone got ripped apart by a bunch of people on 8bc for saying "pro sound". But I have a feeling you're the culprit for the pro sound-line out conflict. Haha.

The jack indeed does have a weird pin orientation, it made it a lot simpler to do the prototypes. All three are in the back. I really hate using SMT stuff unless its actual chips or small components. I think those SMT jacks really only work on portable CD players where they're held in place with the plastic chassis.

the output mod jack didn't look as though it had through hole legs.. strange. guess i'm not familiar w/ that foot print.

I figured that bit was directed at me no worries.. it's just a name i guess..

And the jack is thru hole! I made sure of that.

I figured you'd like the 'pro sound' bit

They're to replace the stock ones. I know they're not absolutely crucial, but they're dirt cheap and take up minimal space.

By the way, If anyone wants to buy one of these to try out, I do have a few extras.

what are the inductors for? U doing somekind of high frequency filtering?
i guess i dont remember there being inductors on the output board.

why not use a thru hole jack for the line out?
SMT has soo much more potential for breaking, and destroying the pads on the PCB.

u lost me as a customer because of the use of "pro sound"
sorry :-]

That looks very nice indeed. Very very nice.

The price is unavoidable, unfortunately. The actual jacks are ridiculously expensive and the price multiplied by five midway through the production of the boards.

Probably not much room to add decoupling caps, but they could be added on another board and just mounted on the side. I really haven't heard any complaints from anyone who uses pro sound without them, but I guess it's something to look into. The caps just take up so much space...

I may be able to push $20.00 on the price, but it's cutting it close.  It's pretty much a take or leave it kind of deal here. Not much can be done about the price without a re-design. Since I don't anticipate a lot of purchases with this mod, there would be no significant price breaks in a big order either.

I dig it!  I feel like there could be caps protecting reverse voltage spikes on the prosound output.  I've never had a problem with not having it, but better safe than sorry.  Maybe we could set up a pre-order to lower the price?  It's a little spendy.

Hawt.