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In Reply to: RE: I'll second that! posted by wheezer on July 27, 2014 at 11:07:38
and I am doing that in a phono stage with great success.
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but thanks. I know Maxamillion is another guy who has been singing the praises of Schottkies and SiC in particular.
I've tried batteries (in the cathode and on the grid), caps, TT, Rs of all kinds and various types of diodes over the years but overall Schottky is hard to beat up to a few volts, SiC providing higher voltage drop.
I guess we can argue all day long about the relative technical merits but some things are hard to fully justify technically, they just work and sound "right".
True that caps are already in the PSU etc and there's been a ton of argument over the fact that they are still in series with the signal. But we have to look at the quantum of destruction and generally, I find that the closer to the signal source a cap lies the greater the impact.
Caps directly in series with small signals are the worst and therefore best avoided. It's easier to get (make) good small value caps at reasonable prices so designing largish values out of the direct signal chain is advisable.
Even then, it's not as simple as it seems and far too often global statements of truth are made that are really only relative. Case in point, a cathode bypass cap in a circuit with a relatively high impedance in the plate circuit provides very little bypass benefit but correspondingly, also has little sonic effect. It's all about ratios.
Naz
that you gave me the idea. Thanks.
that you gave me the idea.
From a thread that started roughly three years ago.
....Again thank you Naz!
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