Any Digital Impressions of the Caiman yet?

I have noticed that none of the early Caiman owners have even posted on AoS in the last day or so... You think there could be a reason for that:scratch:?

STan

Hi Stan,
What are you suggesting that they might be doing that could possibly be more important than posting on AoS?? :lolsign:
Cheers,

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Originally Posted by DaveC

Hi Stan,
What are you suggesting that they might be doing that could possibly be more important than posting on AoS?? :lolsign:
Cheers,

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Just curious if there is a connection.

Stan

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Originally Posted by Sensimilia

Just curious if there is a connection.

Stan

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Hi Stan,
I was trying to be funny - hope I didn't fail too badly - I fully realise the connection you were trying to make ;) .
Cheers,

There is one word thats explains why they haven't posted-engrossed.

i can think of other words that might describe what they might be doing ... i have noticed some people on here take they hifi VERY seriously ...... il leave that comment to interpretation ;)

steady....

heh

i do of course have my name on a caiman ..... and im selling some bonds to buy one..... so i cant really talk!!

Well, my WM8716 chips turned up from Farnell this morning so I set about straight away modding my 7520.

Now I have a 7520 using a Wolfson WM8716 DAC chip 4562 op amps in both sockets and the MLC5/6 mod. So I guess pretty close to a Caiman.

I've had a few songs to get an initial impression and now I'm going to leave it run in for a while. I'm not going to spoil anyone's fun by listing what I think are the improvements so far, I'm just going to leave you with two words for now...

HOLY CRAP! (that's in a good way by the way)

My Caiman arrived on Friday before lunch (thx Stan). I had a quick listen to it (HD650 headphones) before burn-in or even warm up - I had to go out on Friday night. With the original tc7520, the sound gradually improves as the stan-cap (TM) fills up with charge but the Caiman sounded pretty good right from the off.

I then left it on burn-in (feeding it with random tracks from foobar) overnight and most of Saturday afternoon before listening again. The improvements in tonality and separation are not subtle.

I will reserve my full comments until I have spent some time with the Caiman. My initial reaction however is that the improved Wolfson DAC and stans other mods have made a very worthwhile improvement to an already excellent DAC.

Ade