Caiman passive output mod revealed

[MartinT]

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

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.

[Tripmaster]

Thanks Leo but they have a minimum order value.

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

[NRG]

Oh boy, 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....

[Covenant]

Oh boy, 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....

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

[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.

[leo]

Oh boy, 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....

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

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 .

[leo]

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.

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

[leo]

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.

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

[AndrewR]

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

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

[MartinT]

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.

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