sean-xenos
100+ Head-Fier
Hello,
I need your advice on electrolytic capacitors.
Some days ago I ordered an upgrade kit for my Sony CDP-XA5ES cd-player and now I'm quite surprised that this kit suggests to substitute the original Elna Cerafine, Elna Silmic and Nichicon Muse capacitors with Panasonic FC and Panasonic TS-HA capacitors. I always believed that Elna and Nichicon capacitors are superior to Panasonic. Am I wrong or is this well-acclaimed HiFi-engineer talking nonsense?
The parts of the cdp that are to be upgraded are the power board and the audio board.
I already asked him for the reasons for this substitution but his reply was rather cross and not very specific
.
As it is a lot of work to replace more than 40 capacitors I'd like to be sure to do the "right thing", I don't want to have to resolder everything in the end.
Apart from electrolytic capacitors some no name foil capacitors are upgraded in this kit by WIMA MKS and FKP capacitors and four OPA2604 shall be used in the output stage instead of the original opamps.
I really need your help and experience on this,
many thanks in advance
,
sean-xenos.
I need your advice on electrolytic capacitors.
Some days ago I ordered an upgrade kit for my Sony CDP-XA5ES cd-player and now I'm quite surprised that this kit suggests to substitute the original Elna Cerafine, Elna Silmic and Nichicon Muse capacitors with Panasonic FC and Panasonic TS-HA capacitors. I always believed that Elna and Nichicon capacitors are superior to Panasonic. Am I wrong or is this well-acclaimed HiFi-engineer talking nonsense?
![confused.gif](http://www.head-fi.org/forums/images/smilies/http://hfimage.head-fi.org/smilies/confused.gif)
The parts of the cdp that are to be upgraded are the power board and the audio board.
I already asked him for the reasons for this substitution but his reply was rather cross and not very specific
![plainface.gif](http://images/smilies/http://hfimage.head-fi.org/smilies/newsmiles/plainface.gif)
As it is a lot of work to replace more than 40 capacitors I'd like to be sure to do the "right thing", I don't want to have to resolder everything in the end.
Apart from electrolytic capacitors some no name foil capacitors are upgraded in this kit by WIMA MKS and FKP capacitors and four OPA2604 shall be used in the output stage instead of the original opamps.
I really need your help and experience on this,
many thanks in advance
![rs1smile.gif](http://images/smilies/http://hfimage.head-fi.org/smilies/newsmiles/rs1smile.gif)
sean-xenos.