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RE: Upping downstream capacitance in PS..

Posted by dls123 (D) on July 4, 2015 at 06:14:10

In Reply to: RE: Upping downstream capacitance in PS.. posted by gkargreen on July 3, 2015 at 08:03:46:

If you keep the first cap after the rectifier to whatever spec the particular rectifier has for the max value, then upping the other values downstream after the dropping resistors will not be a problem in the old vintage gear. All the old 10 and 20 uF cans can easily become dual 32 or dual 50 F & T caps. It will generally sound better and I have never had any problems with tube rectifiers failing. Really, the first cap is the critical one as long as you are not going crazy upping the values. Bypass the first one with a good small film cap too....... Change any old diodes out for modern quiet ones like the GI856 that McShane sells, but you probably already did that.....

cheers,
Don

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