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jasona
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Post subject: [CLD-D503] Adding a digital optical out Posted: 26 May 2020, 20:53 |
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Hey everyone, I'm an old school user but somehow I lost my login or can't seem to be able to retrieve it so I just made a new one. Anyways, during all this lockdown stuff I decided to go through and cleanup all my A/V equipment. One of them is my D503 which I've own since new that I bought at Circuit City back in '94. Anyways, while totally going through it and tearing it apart and cleaning it, greasing it up, etc I forgot that it DID NOT have any digital outputs of any type Then after looking at the service manuals, some beers and google-fu skills I came up with this... Adding a digital audio out (not Ac3 rf)So the back of my player / board looks like the JPG I attached... with an open port / place for what looks like this.. https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/everlight-electronics-co-ltd/PLT133-T/1080-1428-ND/2693975Which looks like this would just go right in ??? https://www.digikey.dk/product-detail/en/everlight-electronics-co-ltd/PLT133-T9/1080-1429-ND/2693986Sorry, I can't figure out how to paste or plug in multiple images.. anyways, it seems to me like this would work? Just adding the TOSLINK plug? Maybe there's a cap (C895) right there missing? Anybody else every add a optical out to any of these? Or any I just wasting my time on a perfectly PRISTINE working machine. Thanks and stay safe everyone! Jason
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jasona
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Post subject: Re: Adding digital optical out on CLD-D503 Posted: 26 May 2020, 22:34 |
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Don't know.. seeing as the service manual shows the 503/703 (same model??) has an optical output and figuring that the board has the spot there just waiting for a TOSLINK plug, I'd figure it would be worth a shot. Again, don't know if its worth messing up a perfectly pristine unit but it seems like its just waiting for me to mod it!! All I really want or need is CD/SACD digital output so maybe I should just go on ebay and pickup a used player/ transport cheap?
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Post subject: Re: Adding digital optical out on CLD-D503 Posted: 27 May 2020, 00:29 |
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jasona wrote: Don't know.. seeing as the service manual shows the 503/703 (same model??) has an optical output and figuring that the board has the spot there just waiting for a TOSLINK plug, I'd figure it would be worth a shot. Again, don't know if its worth messing up a perfectly pristine unit but it seems like its just waiting for me to mod it!! All I really want or need is CD/SACD digital output so maybe I should just go on ebay and pickup a used player/ transport cheap? With some research it’s likely that this is possible to do with little effort but not as little effort as just not doing it. Digital outputs seem essential to people in our modern time but truly they aren’t that important for LD usually. You need it for DTS LDs but in no way do you need any DTS LDs. They are required for making digital copies of CDs onto MiniDiscs but again if you aren’t already into MD just skip that. And I’m not sure if that was a typo or something but this LD player is older than SACDs and can’t play them. Furthermore SACDs never have a full quality digital output either so it has nothing to do with SACD at all. The only advantage of using the digital out on an LD player to watch regular LDs is when the DAC in your receiver is better than the one in the player in some meaningful way you can actually use. Like if your receiver is very modern and very cheap and can’t do surround from analog sources as well then you may want a digital out.
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jasona
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Post subject: Re: Adding digital optical out on CLD-D503 Posted: 27 May 2020, 01:16 |
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I get it and thanks for all the replies everyone, I really appreciate! Sitting here bored locked up in the house, the wife is driving me crazy so I find myself out in the garage more and more!! which means more beer and wine and looking for things to do! I don't have a "good" dedicated CD player anymore (only the 503) but I have tons of CD's and MD's both pre-recorded and mixed up ones (but just my original MD portable player). Prob about 40 or 50 MD's and 800+ CDs. Maybe I won't go this route and just get a "decent" CD/DVD transport unit for cheap. I used to have a SD-9200 ages ago and lost it when I moved (brother dropped it down a flight of stairs), maybe I'll pick one up. But I just dug out my old Sennheiser's and wanted to get back into some headphone listening and seeing all the cool new DAC/ headphone amps they have now, I need a optical out. If anyone has any other recommendations on a cd-player with digital out, I'd appreciate it! Thanks again! Jason
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ldfan
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Post subject: Re: [CLD-D503] Adding a digital optical out Posted: 27 May 2020, 07:15 |
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jasona wrote: .. anyways, it seems to me like this would work? Just adding the TOSLINK plug? Maybe there's a cap (C895) right there missing? The empty toslink cutout could work if you can verify that the power and signal connections actually still go there. If you have a voltmeter set on continuity mode, you can follow the digital out back to the DSP chip as follows.... If you follow it carefully, it should end up @ pin 43. jasona wrote: Anybody else every add a optical out to any of these? Or any I just wasting my time on a perfectly PRISTINE working machine. It's very doable. I'm still working on adding one to my CLD-M90. I plan on using this kit to make it happen.... And as an FYI... here is where the digital output is located on this player (I have already researched if this digital out connection leads back to an empty toslink socket and I verified that it does not).
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Post subject: Re: [CLD-D503] Adding a digital optical out Posted: 27 May 2020, 12:32 |
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odotb3 wrote: If you can do it, I say go for it. Would be interesting to know if it will work. Even if it's just something to do. Well said. The optical port ought to export the signal from CDs too, which is useful if recording on a MD or DAT machine, for instance. Kudos if it works.
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jasona
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Post subject: Re: [CLD-D503] Adding a digital optical out Posted: 27 May 2020, 16:12 |
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That's cool, I think I'll pick up a toslink connector for a few bucks and that cap (C895) just in case its in line with the 5v+ and see what happens. I'll post all the pics and everything once the parts come in and progress. I'm in the USA/ CA so hopefully I can get these quickly. As for the DVD/CD transport, I hear ya all... I might just go that route as well.. I just like hacking/modding things like when I first got my Nissan Leaf I had to hack the CANBUS, then the Rav4EV (Tesla drive train).. then the S/X, etc.. Just stuff to do!
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jasona
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Post subject: Re: [CLD-D503] Adding a digital optical out Posted: 27 May 2020, 16:26 |
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LOL... not that young, just lots of time and still have energy (thank goodness for that!).. I'm in the middle of doing a massive cloud migration for my company from on-prem Exchange to O365 and sitting here all day in front of a screen is boring the hell outta me! Just ordered the parts from Digi-Key!! $7 total and will be here by the weekend so we'll have a cool project to test! Or a D503 to repair
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jasona
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Post subject: Re: [CLD-D503] Adding a digital optical out Posted: 28 May 2020, 21:20 |
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That's cool! Thanks kris for the link and support!! Even through the boards I bet (or think) are totally different between the 503/703 and 315/513 I bet it's the same principal or dealio. The parts are getting here tomorrow from DigiKey then I'll have the whole weekend to pull apart, film, take pics / show and tell, etc. I'll trace back to the DSP to make sure the trace is going to the chip / digital output as was told above by LDFAN, then I'll get that hole drilled, etc.. Should be a fun time
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jasona
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Post subject: Re: [CLD-D503] Adding a digital optical out Posted: 30 May 2020, 01:11 |
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Cool things are about to happen!! The unboxing is starting!!! https://youtu.be/PIvrYMqI8wQMy baby! Owned her since new.. RIP Circuit City.. Attachment:
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jasona
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Post subject: Re: [CLD-D503] Adding a digital optical out Posted: 30 May 2020, 05:43 |
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Well I'm calling it a night for now... city is burning not to far away so time to head in and watch the news and drink some suds... Looking at the board... UGH.. I don't think I realized how much was involved in taking off the the two main boards!! Looking at the top of the board (which sucks because the IC802 / LC78681E sits on the bottom/ underneath) and means I'd have to tear apart the ENTIRE damn machine.. ugh... so again, looking at the top, there's a possibly that the digital out runs out on the top side? What do you guys think?? the red arrows line up to form a wide pic. I think the DATAO is out maybe? Stay safe everyone! The world is a crazy place right now! Attachment:
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Post subject: Re: [CLD-D503] Adding a digital optical out Posted: 01 Jun 2020, 15:46 |
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Ok, some updates from the weekend!! I decided to try another quicker route first since I'm starting to get slammed with work crap and all this drama happening here in the states so I didn't have alot of time. Instead or tearing the WHOLE machine apart, I decided to try something first (of which I must say I have no idea or clue about LOL).. I decided to try the RCA digital out first so... 1. I soldered a pin through the hole for the digital output and connected it and the ground to a 3ft RCA (high-end) shielded cable.. 2. tested the player for all normal operations, everything works fine.. 3. took the player inside the house and hooked it up to the system / DAC... nothing from the RCA output Did a bit of research on SPIDF / RCA / optical out brackets like these.. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWNKIKN/And found that the RCA side usually has a dropping resistor and or a small cap in place / in line? I was tired at this point so I put it back together and will look at it more/ research during the week. If anybody has suggestions, that would be great! Otherwise I might pickup my old SD-9200 for cheap somewhere or a get a BD player since I don't have one but then that's NO FUN! Here's a quick vid I made. https://youtu.be/YLkJGJeMjQsThanks again for all the comments and suggestions.. I'm still diggin into this.. just ran out of time.. after this week/weekend I'll be good! Pray to the Exchange/Microsoft gods for me!
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