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Re: Sakura Systems responds

Posted by Peter Daniel on July 8, 2003 at 20:35:53:
>>He also suggests that taking off the cover of the capacitors makes an improvement in sound and wanted me to deliver the message to the people of Audio Zone! It was my turn to say "Gee!"<<
I am well aware of capacitor skinning practise, yet I found a better way to improve the capacitors sound. If you look at the picture of my amp, you'll notice that we mount PS capacitors in polycarbonate blocks, which effectively prevent any induced resonances and microphonics. If I would take the plastic off, the capacitors would be loose (otherwise the fit is tight, the diameter is exactly 7/8"). However, we will continue to remove plastic from the coupling caps.
I am deeply sorry that our marketing debiut turned out this way. The initial amp I was building wasn't intended to be a copy of a GainCard. I decided to use similar chassis as it clearly showed advantage over anything else. It is a study in simplicity, functionality, good looks and matches the minimalistic approach of the rest of a circuit. I truly admire that idea and although I had reservations originally, decided to use it anyway. The size of our amp is approximately 1.5 times bigger and the front panel doesn't carry the final look yet. We will try our most to make it as much different than GainCard, as possible.
I simply don't see a better way to built this amp, that's why I did it this way. Again, it has nothing to do with copying. The amount of time I spent on fine tuning and components swapping is astonishing and it just happens that some of audiophile parts we are using are to my taste. We started with non-audiophile brands, but further we went, the better sound we achieved (although proper mix and match was very important). In particular, the choice and arrangement of rectifying diodes and type of umbilical PS cord is critical to the final voicing of the amp.