Caiman passive output mod revealed

[HighFidelityGuy]

It's absolutely correct . Have you thought of spending less time on AoS reading about mods, than to actually power up your system and listening to them? I have discovered a lot of things lately. Like the fact that one of the tunes from Gabrielle was recorded in mono. Or that one of the tracks on the Marvin Gaye Symphony album was not his voice at all.

Ah but perhaps some of us have the forum narrated to us by our computers through our Caiman's. I bet you didn't think of that.

You do make a good point though. I'm quite lucky in that I can keep the forum open most of the day while I'm at work. I also do most of my modding at work during lunch. I tend not to use the forum during the evenings so much, that's listening and viewing time. It's important to keep a healthy balance.

[Ali Tait]

Ok,glad that's been cleared up! Caps should be waiting when I get home,so the dac will get the wire mods and the passive mods in one go.

[HighFidelityGuy]

I've just taken delivery of some Nichicon Muse caps, so hopefully I'll be able to try this out some time this week. I've also ordered a fiberglass pen which I'm hoping will do the job of removing the PCB coating. Hopefully that will arrive soon.

[Carson]

How has I missed this thread?

I am going to, right now, dig out my soldering iron and some spare caps and give this mod a go.

Just have to decide which caps to go with.
Bi-polar Rubycon ones or Elna Silmic II ones? Time to rumage through my parts bins I think.

[leo]

Knock yourself out guys, use whatever caps you have, they'll all sound different maybe worth comparing some too, Just be sure to insert polarised types in the right way

I've got a pair of Arcotronics MKP's which I'm going to try, bloody things are not exactly small though

[Ali Tait]

There Mundorfs are huge,not sure if they are going to fit!

You're right Leo,it'll be like coupling caps in a valve amp,they'll all sound different.

[Puffin]

My passive mod with 47uf Nichicon Muse and 100k resistors

[Carson]

Just finished the mod, as seem below:

I have used the variable output as the chosen output.

Have yet to listen to the difference it has made, but hope to have a good old listen soon.

[Marco]

Hi James,

How's the new case for the Caiman doing? Unless I've missed it, I don't believe you've posted any pictures of it completed

Marco.

[AndrewR]

Thinking about it (not tried the mod yet), it seems that the results should sound a lot better with the left op-amp removed from the board. Otherwise would there would be a combination of active and passive output?

Andrew