Caiman passive output mod revealed

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Originally Posted by leo

I've tried more caps and still yet to find anything to better the FK's

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I have polar Elna Silmic II and Nichicon KZ coming, as well as Sanyo Os-Con polymer and Wima film caps. The Nichicon MUSE bipolars I'm running at the moment are clean, distortion-free with a lovely midrange and tight bass, but perhaps just a touch light in the latter.

More next week.

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Originally Posted by Covenant

Thanks Leo but they have a minimum order value.

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MINIMUM ORDER:
There is no minimum order, but ALL ORDERS UNDER $25 (before shipping is calculated) are subject to a $5 HANDLING FEE in addition to the shipping fee.

Its only a £3.20 handling charge

Oh boy, :rolleyes: don't get hung up on must have FK's...try the standard ones if they are available, the FK's are not better just different, the standard may suit your system better.

Edit: I have some FK's I'll try 'em tomorrow and report back....

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Originally Posted by NRG

Oh boy, :rolleyes: don't get hung up on must have FK's...try the standard ones if they are available, the FK's are not better just different, the standard may suit your system better.

Edit: I have some FK's I'll try 'em tomorrow and report back....

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You are right-I will just get a couple of muse.

Somehow I get the feeling that there's a lot of listening to the passive Caiman going on;). Dispatches from the battle front on the state of play are few and far between:cool:.

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Originally Posted by NRG

Oh boy, :rolleyes: don't get hung up on must have FK's...try the standard ones if they are available, the FK's are not better just different, the standard may suit your system better.

Edit: I have some FK's I'll try 'em tomorrow and report back....

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That would be good Neal, I don't have any standards so can't compare myself, the thing is I think its because the FK's I tried are just way infront of everything else I have so if the standards are as good or maybe better that'll be great :cool:

Going with the linear psu, better 5v reg, BG's for the coupling and decoupling of the dacs 5v and its internal bias , I must say this is the best (to my ears) I've heard this dac .

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Originally Posted by MartinT

I have polar Elna Silmic II and Nichicon KZ coming, as well as Sanyo Os-Con polymer and Wima film caps. The Nichicon MUSE bipolars I'm running at the moment are clean, distortion-free with a lovely midrange and tight bass, but perhaps just a touch light in the latter.

More next week.

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Just be very careful with those Polymers mate, they can be leaky electrically . I knew a guy who used Sanyo SEP's as coupling in his linestage , he started noticing weird cone movements on one of his speakers , long story short it was DC offset caused from one of the SEP's .
Not wanting to scaremonger and they could of course be fine, just wanted to let you know:)

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Originally Posted by StanleyB

Somehow I get the feeling that there's a lot of listening to the passive Caiman going on;). Dispatches from the battle front on the state of play are few and far between:cool:.

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I'm finding the passive output to have more finesse so far, not had any sharpness and no loss of detail :cool:
Its a real nice mod if its suited to the rest of your kit

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Originally Posted by Covenant

It doen't look like Hifi Collective have the Black Gate 47uf FK's in stock. Anywhere else they are available?

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I just found that the links for Nichicon and Black Gate are mixed-up on the Hi-Fi Collective website. Just click the Nichicon link and you'll find the Black Gates.

Andrew

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Originally Posted by AndrewR

I just found that the links for Nichicon and Black Gate are mixed-up on the Hi-Fi Collective website. Just click the Nichicon link and you'll find the Black Gates.

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But they appear to have no useful values left of the standard, C or N types.