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Mike, I wouldn't use a VR in any tube amp I'll own.

Posted by Timbo in Oz (A) on August 19, 2016 at 02:48:23

In Reply to: RE: Ping Mike Samra - re film PSU caps for LEAK amps posted by Michael Samra on August 19, 2016 at 00:41:55:

I know what the original caps were, I bought the amps in OEM condition. ? Nice amps but they hummed and farted, due to poor replacement NoS caps and 'not wonderful' new 'GZ34' s - which weren't within a bull's roar of a real GZ34. We measured! And there was no OOMF to the sound. No slam either.

Good real NoS GZ34s which are the ONLY good GZ34s around now, and back then, were silly money.

(That experience put me off VRs, and my experience since has confirmed for me that VRs are a waste of time and money.)

So we ditched them and could and did use the big caps, 'cause we now could.

As I've mentioned before, in this series of posts about using the LEAKs to drive the QUADs, there are 4 Soft Recovery SS diodes in a bridge in each amp. Lots of OOMPH and slam and valve sound, to boot!

What about adding a choke or two and cutting down from four big caps to two, or three, say LCLCC? or even LCLCLC? Chokes store energy too, don't they?

TIA

Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger

Edits: 08/19/16

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