filholder
08-Aug-05, 12:41
I have just finshed my Amp3, will post picture later. First just to say that it sounds excellent, certainly better than my heavily modded Sonic Impact. The Si sounded great but the sound stage while very wide wasnt very deep, also i found that the large polypropelene input caps seemd to picke up some knind of noise fromt eh amps itself. Even with stock panny FC input the Amp3 sounds better IMHO.
My question is this, I use a 5 amp SMPS for the power, and currently use an array of 18 * 1000 uf caps in the amp3 between the power switch and the power input on the board. I did this since i had an large number of these cheap BC 037 series caps. I now think that the amps 3 deserve some better power supply caps and was wondering if there was any advantgae to what i have done or wether it might be an idea to just buy some larger value caps. Or indeed a range of caps to power the amp, i was think somthing like either 18* 1200uf 16v panasonic FC and then maybe some 470uf starget on the amp board or 3* 4700uf panasonic fc then 6* 1200 panasonic fc. And maybe the same staget on the amp board, or maybe a 470uf fc again.
Any idea?
Would a stagerring or caps size be better than my current array of 1000uf caps that the question i guess.
Fil
My question is this, I use a 5 amp SMPS for the power, and currently use an array of 18 * 1000 uf caps in the amp3 between the power switch and the power input on the board. I did this since i had an large number of these cheap BC 037 series caps. I now think that the amps 3 deserve some better power supply caps and was wondering if there was any advantgae to what i have done or wether it might be an idea to just buy some larger value caps. Or indeed a range of caps to power the amp, i was think somthing like either 18* 1200uf 16v panasonic FC and then maybe some 470uf starget on the amp board or 3* 4700uf panasonic fc then 6* 1200 panasonic fc. And maybe the same staget on the amp board, or maybe a 470uf fc again.
Any idea?
Would a stagerring or caps size be better than my current array of 1000uf caps that the question i guess.
Fil