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Magnan AC filter tweak

Posted by cporada@cabnr.unr.edu (A) on March 25, 2007 at 13:05:31

I purchased some of the Audioprism Quietlines and am quite pleased with the results, but would now like to go further.
I am writing with a quick question about the hot to neutral cap tweak mentioned on the Magnan website that is said should be installed as close as possible to the IEC input of the CD player. Is it possible to simply open the CD player and solder a 50uF cap from the “black” prong of the input IEC to the “white” prong of the IEC on the inside of the CD player and thereby achieve the desired filtering without building a fancy plug adaptor? Is this the so-called "Auricap tweak"?
If not, could someone explain in detail how to build the needed adaptor? Do I simply need to wire a female IEC plug to a male IEC plug using a black, white, and green wire, and in the middle run a cap across the black and white lines? Also, Magnan mentions that to avoid shock one can use a 10kOhm ½ watt resistor. To wire this, would I just run the 50uF cap and the resistor in parallel across the black and white wires?
Also, to make these filters, do I need to use some special kind of cap that can handle AC line voltage? Magnan says metallized polypropylene...
Thanks so much for your help.
Chris

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