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RE: Small IDHT tube cathode bypassing

Posted by Al Noakes on July 6, 2015 at 05:37:12:
Inaudiable ? He must have tin ears . I don't claim to have golden ears or the ability to discern cable changes over the phone like some here but I do hear cathode bypass caps . Film caps are simply too big , electrolytics leave a nasty footprint on the sound . A combination of electrolytic paralleled with film doesn't sound as good as films . I tend to avoid cathode bypasses altogether favouring LEDs , stacked schottky for drivers and fixed bias for output stages . No matter what people claim about their boutique caps or 'multiple ear-tuned cap bundles' in the cathode is that these are also in series with the grid . I would rather have a smaller , superior quality cap coupling to the grid rather than a coupling cap and a huge cap in the cathode which are both in series with the signal . YYMV and all that

Al