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Pink Fish Media is one of the best sources for DIY and audio ideas. The following is a list of posts previously published on the Pink Fish Media DIY forum and that you may find useful.

 

General tips and tricks:

DIY SMT to DIL adapter
Explains how to build a simple adapter to solder SMT opamps on a DIL PCB.

Regulator Booster
Improve the performance of a 317 regulator by adding a Gyrator front end. A miniature strip board that can be used as a prop-in replacement to the 317

 

Naim CDX modifications:

Pictures (preview) of my very modified CDX
Some ideas for CDX modifications

CDX reverse engineering
Details regarding the CDX internals

 

TeddyReg and PowerReg

The best regulator I've built so far
The first TeddyReg thread

Howto: TeddyReg
The first TeddyReg thread became long and too difficult to follow, this one was supposed to be shorther...

Howto: accelerated TeddyReg
How to accelerate the start time of the TedyReg

Introducing the PowerReg
A regulator for power amplifiers

Howto: TeddyCap
Building a CRCRC network for the TeddyReg

 

SuperReg (ALWSR) modifications:

Replacing the ALWSR's pre-regulator by a VBE
The TeddyCap history

 

Naim phono stage modifications:

Pictures of my new phono pre-amp
Modifications to Naim phono stage, including regulators

 

NCC200 modifications:

Regulating NCC200 front end, and other tips
Adding a front end regulator to Avondale NCC200 power amplifier, applicable also to Naim power amplifiers.