Upgrading caps on this DAC and OTL amp worth it (pics)?
Hi,
I recently acquired a DAC and amp for Stax headphones built by a local amp/dac builder. The sound is a quantum leap over everything I have ever owned before with Stax L700 headphones :).
However, when I opened them up i noticed that the caps used are no-name and I wonder if there are sonic gains to be made by upgrading them?
The DAC uses a dual mono AKM AK4497EQ chip and Russian tubes 6Н16Б for buffer.
Here is the output stage
The amp is a OTL with 6Н17Б and 6S4A tubes.
These seem to be the interstage coupling caps
And these the final coupling caps
Any recommendations, where to start? :)
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