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RE: Input and Output capacitor sizes

I haven't spent a lot of time listening to various capacitor combos... for these caps, I used how Peter Daniel setup his premium NOS DAC as a starting point for selecting which caps went where and roughly sizing them. I did see a couple of references to some comments he made on selecting caps... See here:

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=574431#post574431

and here:

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=581230#post581230

And have used those comments as some general guidance.

I liked the sound of his DAC when I was using it with my Shigaclone CD drive and he uses parts similar to what I've seen some other modifiers use.

To summarize the basic starting point, Peter's NOS DAC uses 1000uf Black Gate standards before the regulators, 10uf-50uf Black Gate N/NX after the regulator, 4.7uf/50v Black Gate N for coupling (unavailable now), Oscon for purely digital PSs.

I think the parts you plan to use will be fine, the sizes are certainly in-the-ballpark and the N/NX are better than what I used.

Later!

Greg

P.S. Yes, I used the 180uf/20v Oscons from the Parts Connexion and 1000uf/16v BG standards.


Edits: 05/13/09
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