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RE: Capacitor between DC amp and preamp?

Posted by rick_m (A) on February 29, 2012 at 07:56:19

In Reply to: Capacitor between DC amp and preamp? posted by KanedaK on February 29, 2012 at 04:57:44:

I'd flip the normal switch and see if that makes you feel better.

As far as reliability goes, well, since you've come to distrust both your preamp and power amp for no apparent reason, how long do you suppose your confidence in the capacitor will hold up? And it's only provides partial protection anyway...

The only way you can really add another layer of protection for your woofers is to fuse them or put a big bipolar cap in series with them. Just adding a cap would produce little reduction in risk since it would take a compound failure for it to make any difference and half of that would still be downstream. And you risk possible sonic problems and power-on transient thumps...

Regards, Rick

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