I've been concentrating primarily on finishing my basement studio over the past few months, and I've vowed not to start any new electronics projects until the basement is finished.  However, I reached a milestone on the basement the other night (finished putting up all the drywall), so I thought I'd switch it up for a night and knock out some small things I'd been planning on doing for a while.  Tonight, I added XLR connectors to my dbx 165A compressor and Orban 622B EQ.  They both originally had barrier strips for the inputs and outputs, and adding XLR connectors is an easy job that needed to be done.  While I was in there, I added a Jensen output transformer to the dbx since it had an unbalanced output and I had an extra transformer on hand.  I had done some extensive modifications to both of these units a few months ago.  On the dbx, I swapped all the electrolytic capacitors for Wima film caps, and swapped out all the opamps in the signal path for NE5532/5534s where applicable.  On the Orban, I followed some suggestions made by Scott Dorsey, which conisisted mostly of opamp upgrades and capacitor swaps.  It was a lot of work, and my Hakko 808 desoldering gun got a good workout, but it was well worth the effort based on my initial listening tests.  I can't wait to get them in my (finished) studio and finally run them through the paces.

I think I'm going to do some mods to my Oktava MK-012s tomorrow while I still have all my soldering gear pulled out.