If your capacitors can is isolated from the inside (Blackgate Type N are like mine) then you can wrap wire on one then to the other then to your ground....
Extreme improvement in how smooth the sound is, mine also has a 1.2kohm instead of 600ohm Riken and removed input resistor but the huge affect came with this mod.
Extreme improvement in how smooth the sound is, mine also has a 1.2kohm instead of 600ohm Riken and removed input resistor but the huge affect came with this mod.
Well these capacitors often carry a little bit of induced charge. This eliminates that first of all. Next it is affecting the electromagnetic field, causing a sort of shield if you will.
If it was on signal capacitors the removal of the charge could be good because I assume what it does is it steal a tiny bit of electron draw which would be the tops and bottoms of higher frequencies, creating a harsher sound. I based this idea on the concept of grounding speaker baskets which has that exact affect however the speaker baskets do not always charge and can take awhile to do so, making A-B comparison impossible, but this is just obvious.
There is no way to prove what it is doing unfortunately but the results are worth it, and there is no bad side affect at least with Blackgate type N capacitors because they have isolated cans. The voltage on the can may be high at times but the amperage is almost non-existent.
Try it 🙂 Hell try it even without removing the plastic jacket, it might give similar results in the case of power supply caps. But I can tell you in a Audiosector amplifier with the 1000/100 STD/N cap combo the 100 N caps to the chip sound a lot better naked before this mod too.
If it was on signal capacitors the removal of the charge could be good because I assume what it does is it steal a tiny bit of electron draw which would be the tops and bottoms of higher frequencies, creating a harsher sound. I based this idea on the concept of grounding speaker baskets which has that exact affect however the speaker baskets do not always charge and can take awhile to do so, making A-B comparison impossible, but this is just obvious.
There is no way to prove what it is doing unfortunately but the results are worth it, and there is no bad side affect at least with Blackgate type N capacitors because they have isolated cans. The voltage on the can may be high at times but the amperage is almost non-existent.
Try it 🙂 Hell try it even without removing the plastic jacket, it might give similar results in the case of power supply caps. But I can tell you in a Audiosector amplifier with the 1000/100 STD/N cap combo the 100 N caps to the chip sound a lot better naked before this mod too.
Similar to Panasonics TA-KE caps, but the spiraled wire isn't grounded
JP patent 10256099
Regards
James
JP patent 10256099
Regards
James
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Where can you even get the TA-KE's at ?
Still try the mod see what you think. It only takes five minutes.
Still try the mod see what you think. It only takes five minutes.
Do I remember correctly that some early model transistor amplifiers had a wire coiled around their speaker output caps?
Probably around an output resistor. The cap mod also creates a small leakage capacitance directly between the positive and negative rails, bypassing the ground. You could try a 1nF from +ve to -ve and listen for the same effect.
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Same effect seen with poly cap between v+ and v- at amplifier board--size range 2uF to 6uF.
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