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I shudder to think that this whole thread has been about nothing. Look at the date of the John Curl article, 1978. I remember the first preamp manufactured by the David Hafler Co., the DH 101. All the output caps at the line and phono stage were two SERIES connected 22uf/16V tantalum caps giving an overall value of 11uf. That preamp was put out around 1979. It got rave reviews. I thought it sounded kind of...'zippy'. The fix to that was very simple, though, you just replace the tantalum caps with film caps. It may be that Cheap-Jack will try to put electrolytic caps back in the signal path, but I don't believe that he will do it for very long. They just don't sound very good.


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