Seperate Power Supply for Audio Aero Capital MK11

Virenk,
I believe that the BDR cones are only threaded on, although someone might have put a little glue or something on the threads to secure them. If you're not worried about marking the cones up a bit, use a pair of vise grips and twist the little suckers off! Once you "crack" the glue, they should screw-off normally.

I think Fatparrot got it right .. AA has an amazing power supply there.. one of the strong points of the CAP II and it has many. Its a multi-stage PS and a major reason why this unit is loved by many many people !
Including me !

Hard to get better in PS and transport ..

Matt

Leave it alone. I love mine just the way I got it, with the P4 chip.

I'm thinking about removing the BDR cones as well, and substituting rollerblocks, a product I swear by. I think, instead, I'm going to try a Symposium platform with rollerblocks supporting it.. Possibly they factored in the performance of the cdp with the bdr cones and designed to that spec , although I have no information to support that.
By the way, I got a nice little performance boost by moving the rollerblocks that were under my old cdp to my ML 334 amp! Bonus!

Why would you want to modify it ?
I have had a MK II for six months. I am a firm believer in tweaks but can not find one aspect of its sound quality that needs tweaking.
Some Cd players have wonderful bass, others have excellent soundstaging, the AA Capitole simply plays beautiful music.

BTW a separate PS is not necessarily a good thing. Ideally, a PS should be located very close to the active circuitry, to reduce cabling inductance, RFI pickup and stray capacitance.