Any Digital Impressions of the Caiman yet?

[StanleyB]

I find compared to my TDA1541, male vocals especially, are lacking a bit of weight and depth...there a slight lack of emotional involvement, you would probably never notice in isolation but in comparison its apparent.

It sounds far better with the Caiman PSU.

[leo]

The worst was the 2132, over thick sounding, slightly ploddy in the bass and a noticeable drop in HF clarity...a very Naim sound IMHO...not surprising as my CD5 also uses them in the o/p stage


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Have to agree there Neal regarding the OPA2132, I removed the 36k+100nf to give this one another try, the sound started annoying me after a while so I stuck the LM4562 back in

The 36k + 100nf mod is easy to try and rip out if you don't like it

[Gazjam]

Neil, Leo
I fitted the 2132 amps recently and I gotta say, I'm not hearing what your hearing in my system.

All the clarity of the 4562s but with more bass grunt, with better projected and more natural sounding vocals.
Less fatigue now, very open "sorted" sound, the way I remember my Planar 3 TT sounding.

Biggest improvement for me is the way the speakers "disappear" now - its as though the Dac now knows what "Music" is and doesn't just reproduce low and high frequences?
A better sense of instruments being played rather than just reproducing the sounds they make.

Theres a "groove" too that wasn't there before - perhaps this IS the Naim sound and I like it?
Just goes to show how subjective our music listening actually is!

[Covenant]

I'm with Gaz on this one. A very natural sound to my ears with the 2132 installed. The next thing with me is to try one 2132 and one 4562.
Its all good fun (and cheap)

[Labarum]

This is beginning to sound like analogue geeks discussing cables!

<ouch>

[Stratmangler]

This is beginning to sound like analogue geeks discussing cables!

<ouch>

It's does, doesn't it ?

Does the position of the opamp make an audible difference (ie. left hand / right hand socket) ?

Chris

(runs away chuckling to himself after dropping loaded question)

[Covenant]

This is beginning to sound like analogue geeks discussing cables!

<ouch>

It's much more like the discussions about valves except about a tenth of the cost!

[StanleyB]

It's does, doesn't it ?

Does the position of the opamp make an audible difference (ie. left hand / right hand socket) ?

Chris

(runs away chuckling to himself after dropping loaded question)

It would make a difference. The line output circuit is different in design to the headphone circuit.

[StanleyB]

There are different versions of the WM8716, which might account for some of the conclusions on the 2132.

[roscoeiii]

Stan,

You mentioned the improvement in sound from the Caiman PSU. Any update on when it might be available? Not that I'd be shocked if you're in the dark on when you might get the approval you've been waiting for...