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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.

Post Subject: What I am wondering.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/17/2011

I never heard people shunted battery with caps in order to change sound. In case of battery power unit it does not make sense as there is no HF noise some in the picture. Yes, battery has own noise but it usually no where hear what the audio circuitry have. I do not doubt the result reported by Clark but I wonder if the nature of the phenomena the he report and what I am trying to do with PP2000 is very different.

Anyhow, I just realized that the caps that I have 2mm taller then I need to have and they to get another caps. Here is where I ask myself what kind cap I need to get. Being a compulsive idiot I would like to get as huge caps and I can fit in there. Steve told me that I do not need a huge cap for what I do. Still, I am trying to specify what I need. Probably it needs to be electrolytic capacitors, shall it be polar or not? How about low ESR caps? How about low impedance caps? How about HF caps? I tend to stays with larder caps and they automatically have lower impedance and lower Equivalent Series Resistance. How, shall I bypass electrolytic with a fast film cap? They are all the questions that I have no answer.

BTW, meanwhile tonight the new PP2000 works beyond my best expectations with any caps. I have stinky FM to sound with more dynamics and with more notes enunciation then I has 176kHz files a month back. I did have the similar effect with my old PP2000 when I “certified” it 2 years back but I do honestly feel that the new PP2000 take it way beyond where the old unit was, perhaps the addressing of the “fuzziness” did make sense. I can’t not be objective about it as it was at least 9 month back when I have my playback up with old PP2000. The only way to confirm it would be to have Pure Power to assemble my old unit back (I did asked them to keep my old motherboard marked) but with all honestly I do not want to do it as I like too much what the new units does and I do not want to jinx it.

The Cat

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