Caiman passive output mod revealed

[Ali Tait]

It's 47uF I have coming! The Pre 2 has a 100k pot though,so I should get away with 1uF also.I'll get some 1 uF's too..

[Clive]

It's 47uF I have coming! The Pre 2 has a 100k pot though,so I should get away with 1uF also.I'll get some 1 uF's too..

Here's how the 1uFs fit, no problem closing the lid. Sorry to say but smaller caps almost invariably sound better. Bass is great via my 18 inch dipole bass drivers.....nothing's missing!

[Ali Tait]

I'll see how are against a smaller value.

[MartinT]

Nice installation, Clive. I have a pair of Claritycap ESA arriving soon to try, should be a similar fit to your Obbligatos.

You really should do something about those regulators and tantalum caps, though

[Ali Tait]

Clarity Cap MR's look nice,not tried them before.A pair is half the price of the dac though!

[MartinT]

Indeed, I don't need to pay that much for what is essentially a secondary source for me.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Oh dear, Hannah just got home and said "what have you done to the hifi, it sounds boring"

[Clive]

Nice installation, Clive. I have a pair of Claritycap ESA arriving soon to try, should be a similar fit to your Obbligatos.

You really should do something about those regulators and tantalum caps, though

I have some Clarity SA waiting to go into a phono stage, they are about half the diameter of the Obbligatos.

I agree about the tants and regs. I have some older type Burson regs I could drop in. I expect better caps will help the slight top end harshness vs my vinyl rigs. I'm in a quandary about the Wolfson though, is it any smoother than the 7520 DAC? More detailed yes, but if it's not smoother I might not be happy.

Will the cap upgrades reduce harshness? I must add, the DAC is not especially harsh, indeed it's harsh of me to compare it to a £5k vinyl front end.

[Stratmangler]

Oh dear, Hannah just got home and said "what have you done to the hifi, it sounds boring"

You still playing the Ting Tings ?
No bleedin' wonder !!!

[The Vinyl Adventure]

... Ha, no that finished... Mgmt when Hannah got back (that she likes) and arcade fire now... Same effect... I guess it's a matter of taste.. Il let these'uns run in and try her blind in a week or so see what she says