The discrete TC-7520(SE)(+) line output

[DSJR]

Stan, I don't own one of your DAC's, but I just wanted to thank you for passing exchange-rate savings on to your customers. I sincerely wish other distributer/manufacturers were as honest, instead of pocketing the difference when the £ is stronger....

[Graybags]

Go on then Stan, put me down for a board. Been playing after finally getting round to using the components group-buy at the start of the year, was worried about opening it up what with the warranty sticker :-)

Didn't use the grey mundorf's in the board so tried them out with the passive mod. Good, but not as good as the 3u3 Ashcrofts. Might post a picky in the passive thread.

[StanleyB]

If space was not too much of an issue within the Caiman, a lot of good use would have been made of that. If I had time on my hand I would have loved to start on a hobbyist project to design a bigger aftermarket case. The Caiman is crying out for one.

Sorry for all the delays in being able to ship the first batch of the elusive Gator. Here's a screen shot of it in the mean time.



The BAD News
The black Rubycon 47uF/50V caps I originally ordered turned out to be far to high, and would not fit in the Caiman+ . So I have had to get someone to take them away and desolder all the of them.

The Good News
After searching as far afield as the US I did manage to get the last remaining batch of the legendary Rubycon grey 47uF and 33uF ( at a crazy over inflated price I may add).
I don't have enough 47uF to start sprinkling them about liberally on each PCB. So I have been doing some intensive listening tests in order to see what delivers more bangs for bucks. The boards will be populated with the different values in certain locations according to my tests. The headphone output cap is however a difficult one to determine. I have selected a value based on my own preference, but I have made it two slots for the output cap so that headphone listeners who want to experiment further have the option to add/remove caps on the headphone output.

By the way, I'll offer the option for interested parties to buy the board without any caps, in case they wish to try something different to the Rybycons. I don't have enough of them so I don't fancy seeing them go to waste after all the efforts I made to source them.

[leo]

Good work Stan, you even went to the trouble of sourcing a few of the grey Rubycons

[StanleyB]

It was like finding a hen's teeth in a haystack. If I sold them on I would make a small fortune I reckon . .

[Peter Galbavy]

Cool board. Let me know if and when I can get one with caps in all the right places

[Getgaff]

Looking forward to this

[slate]

Looking good..... I think that I will make do with the grey Rubycons

[Kendalbeefcake]

Hello..I've been lurking on this forum for a while, but thought it time to say hello! Stan, I'd like to "officially" put my name down for the 'gator' please!

Tia!

Kendal

[Techno Commander]

If I had time on my hand I would have loved to start on a hobbyist project to design a bigger aftermarket case. The Caiman is crying out for one.

Something like these would be good. Especially if it has enough room for a linear PSU as well.



They will also supply cases CNC'd to your spec with no minimum quantuty.