In Reply to: Help - Toshiba C905 C903 posted by DaveT on May 24, 2004 at 07:47:55:
Those caps seem to feed the DAC.. Replaced mine with a pair of Rubycon 47uf's (rubycon makes Black Gates)in a decent size..mebe 3/8"x 1 1/4" , and bypassed/paralleled with TDK 1uf NP's.
DID make an improvement, not subtle either
Also replaced the C912/910 caps with a pair of 0.68 Auricaps..(reconnected /deleted the Swenson Mod.. experimentally:-) Replaced the 2 Non Polar caps off by the Black plastic RCA blocks.. Sorry I forgot the #'s.. but are visually different than the "normal' OEM caps. being Rubycons on my Tosh.. these are important caps.. Used Soilens of 2uf.
Sound was a MAJOR improvement.. significantly better (for Me) than the simple Swenson bypass. Seems these caps are seriously important.
Far too much so to be trusted to an Electrolytic regardless of pedigree.
In fairness it took me the entire Darned day of "substituting/listening" to finally settle on a result I liked.
This was as big a change as installing the C4's inna Foreplay.
\ Soundstage is Huge and timbral balance is absolutely spot on..Detail however is perhaps too much.. about 15 substitutions later.. Voicing is serious work. Will fine tune more later, but 'She' is getting pissed.. and Mebe 'burn in' might change something.. unlikely tho as I'have yet to hear it in 33 years of doing this :-).
As always this kinda stuff is ALWAYS system dependant.
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- Re: Help - Toshiba C905 C903 - Bare 08:54:21 05/24/04 (5)
- Toshiba C905 C903 - DaveT 11:52:58 05/24/04 (4)
- amazing - Bare 06:54:33 05/26/04 (0)
- Re: Toshiba C905 C903 - Wise Lee 19:44:28 05/24/04 (2)
- Toshiba Bare Mod - caps - Davet 08:26:47 05/25/04 (1)
- Most important to experiement and make your own judgement(nt) - Wise Lee 20:23:58 05/26/04 (0)