@qauntumpot Thanks for posting such a detailed review with follow-ups. I have not applied CuTF decoupling caps to the ODAM in my system, but I plan to sooner or later.
@gunhold and I spoke on the phone earlier in the year to discuss how I approached the conditioner mod. A couple of weeks later, he called me back and said that he upgraded the receptacles and caps at the same time. The mods made a vast improvement to his system, and I knew they would. He sent me a photo of the project and a short clip of the completed conditioner. His DIY skills are fantastic and looked as though Audience themselves performed the work.
I experimented with the orientation of the capacitors in the conditioner. Caps perform their best when AC enters the capacitor from the inner foil and exits the outer foil. The opposite is true when used as coupling caps in the signal path. The soundstage shrinks and everything condenses to the center when the caps are incorrectly installed in the conditioner, so mind the outer foil.
I’m going to digress a bit here: if you think that the ODAM and receptacle upgrades are terrific, wait until you install an Akiko Audio Harmonizer Unit into the conditioner. It’s a grounding component that you connect directly to the IEC ground. It’s that simple to take your system to the next level and beyond.