Caiman passive output mod revealed

[LittleTone]

Wired it like this post by Stan

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showp...&postcount=207

Regards
Tony

[MartinT]

Ah, ok that's fine

[nickbojko]

i have been reading this post since beginning,stay with 47uf caps(nichicon zk's) very nuetral,bypass with polystyrene .06 to .1,better than any polypropelene.you can pick them up on the net surplus.I've been using them since the 80's,also use small values on power supply electrolitics,silver mica or polyester-pass.try listening comparisons.polypropelene's are good but the prices have sky rocketed.

[Marco]

Hi Nick,

Welcome to AoS

Could you please pop into the Welcome area and introduce yourself to our community?

This is required by all new members, so use the existing threads there as a guidline to see what info is required (system details and music tastes).

Cheers!

Marco.

[nickbojko]

has anybody though of buying another one and running them as mono pair?

[MartinT]

Not really, but do explain what you would expect to hear?

[nickbojko]

no cross talk between channels,everything is separated,power supplies,etc.getting back to caps-conrad-johnson has been using polystyrene coupling caps since the late 70's.

[MartinT]

I still like the sound quality I'm getting from 2.2uF AuriCaps. I like dual-mono construction in general, but doubling up on Caimans is probably egging the pudding too far and there may be better ways to do things.

[Reid Malenfant]

I can see problems straight away. You only have a single 75 ohm coaxial cable or Toslink. Splitting that into two without buggering up the 75 ohm impedance would be a game in itself Likewise with the Toslink me thinks.

Of course after that the problems just keep mounting up. What you need to do is make seperate PSUs for the left & right output ICs or Gator if fitted. Would save a shed load of hassle at the end of the day However still not the easiest if you don't know precisely what you are doing

[StanleyB]

I like dual-mono construction in general, but doubling up on Caimans is probably egging the pudding too far and there may be better ways to do things.

Very much so. But I am getting fed up of the ever increasing pile of abandoned expensive prototypes. I need a breakthrough.. Maybe pure DC (i.e. no caps in the signal path ) might be the solution to those caps.