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How strange. Yours has the exact same dents and scratches as low-gain's.

Did you line up the knobs especially?

Has anyone got anything by Steps?

Nice one kitsch. Hope he's out there somewhere!

I've just assembled (though not tested) my dual SID board, and it's much nicer than the SID2SID.

This new board is nice and thick, and the PCB traces are so much better. The SID2SID is pretty crummy if you ask me, with traces like tin foil. Vanessa's board is properly made and very nicely layed out indeed.

It'll be a couple of months before I can get another 8580 (promised a grey C64 by a friend who's had it for years).

If you are using the headphone socket then no, the ground is already connected. You just need to wire L and R.

I'll try to clear this up.

If you add a prosound mod, you can either use the headphone socket or add your own socket. If you use the headphone socket, ground will already be connected (otherwise nothing would come out of your cans) so you simply need to disconnect the other socket pins and route L and R to the socket as per photo above.

If you add a new socket, then that will of course need its L and R connected, and the ground pin must be connected to a ground (or shield in photo) point on the Game Boy board.

Ground points are all over the board. A multimeter can be used to find them, with a simple continuity test. Re Question, it's not for safety, it's essential for a circuit to work. Electricity, as every skoolboy no, is the effect of the flow of electrons. Think of ground as a drain where the electrons are collected up before being whizzed off back round the circuit again, flowing all the time. Disconnect ground, and the electrons cannot flow = no electricity.

I think it was originally done to give a signal at line level, to suit sound recording conventions. But I may be wrong. Also IIRC, the mod (tips hat to Trash80) was found to improve SNR on certain models of Game Boy. 1/8" is appropriate because it is a good fit for the Game Boy. It's not exactly the case that "the 1/8" prosound mod will decrease or even eliminate" the noise - prosound may help, but the choice of 1/8" is irrelevant.

Of course you should! Mine is always within easy reach! Hope this helps!

Gold-plated plugs and sockets do not make the slightest bit of difference to sound quality. Ever.

Electrons will flow through gold no better than they will through any other conductive cable.

Their only advantage is that they don't corrode like a normal connector would after 30 odd years.

Don't waste money on gold connectors. Unless your cables and the rest of your studio are made out of gold, it's pointless.