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RE: A very bad idea


The best gear does not use caps as signal coupling devices-- I have never used a cap in series with an audio signal, and do not intend to.

Capacitors are by far the sorriest sounding devices ever invented to use in the presence of audio signals-- if they're used in series with an audio signal.

I don't do that. Capacitors are ONLY used by myself in power supply design, and that is only because the A.C. power systems in our world require filtering if we're going to produce D.C. from A.C.

When you're modifying a piece of gear that does use capacitors as signal pass devices, then you're forced to get the capacitors to perform as well as they can musically-- something that no capacitor has ever done right.

Compromise becomes the order of the Day-- you do the best that you can with what's available in these sorry devices that cannot, under any circumstances, pass a musical signal without degrading it.

Which is why we build D.C. amps-- they ARE REQUIRED in order to reproduce music well.

The amp/preamp modifier doesn't have this luxury, so he is forced to search among the ruins, and try to assemble or find cap combinations that will at least limp along trying to reproduce music.

For most, it's no big deal. I simply gave the man a glimpse of what can be done if you need to do it. That's the most honest approach-- give a complete answer.

---Dennis---







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