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post #1 of 8
5/30/11 at 7:13am
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I just made an LOD for my Sansa Fuze V2 out of 100uF Electrolytic Vishay caps and .1uF ceramic caps for my rig.

before diciding on the above caps, i experimented a lot with the caps available at the moment, and there were so many obvious/observable differences in sound. that leads me here, to make a thread about input caps that people use, and think sound the best. post ur impressions please.

 

to start,

the above input caps that i used, sounded best in the Lot i had, but they soften the Upper frequencies a little bit on my setup.

i dont like that. the lower end, is more visible on my RE0s now, hearing punches i never knew i could hear with my RE0s.

my setup is,

Sansa Fuze V2>LOD>Mini^3>RE0s

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post #2 of 8
5/30/11 at 8:13am

 

I don't keep up much with portable devices and whatnot, so forgive me is this seems like a stupid question.

 

But what's the purpose of the input cap? Does the Sansa Fuze have a DC offset on its output or something?

 

se

 

 

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post #3 of 8
5/30/11 at 8:46am
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The Sansa Fuze V2 has DC Offset ~1.4v on its line out. So thats why the input caps.
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post #4 of 8
5/30/11 at 9:05am

 

Ah, gotcha.

 

Thanks!

 

se

 

 

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post #5 of 8
5/30/11 at 1:49pm
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This LOD i have with the non audio 16V 100uF Vishay BC and .1uF ceramics distorts at high volumes. So cheap non audio caps is a no no.
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post #6 of 8
6/3/11 at 6:54pm

I like NOS PLIO K75-10 bypassed with NOS Teflon T-3 caps. (usual size is 2.2uf 250V for the PLIO and .1 or .22uf  600V for the T-3 Teflon). The only drawback to these caps are the physical sizes of them...SQ wise they are superb ( as long as you use the combination ) with no drawbacks I can find (from long term testing in a tube preamp as I/O coupling caps as well as the same combo , slightly different value, used in a big dual mono EL34 amp in another location of the circuit).

 

PLIO is short for paper in lavsan and oil (IIRC).

 

Peete.


Edited by Pricklely Peete - 6/3/11 at 6:55pm
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post #7 of 8
7/7/11 at 10:58am
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Guys, u have to try the Wima Film caps, they do wonders to my setup. all i can say is, with the Wimas plugged in, its very Clean, Effortless and detailed. Awesome.

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post #8 of 8
7/9/11 at 3:12pm

I like Nichicon, I'm using them on my sound card, and it really cleans up everything

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