audio-talk

nickds1 wrote:

Gargoyle wrote:I'm from Canada.

Canada - that's quite big, isn't it?

Which bit?

Simcoe County Ontario!

andrew Ivimey wrote:getting on for 36million peeps too - which one are you?

welcome!

"And Betty when you call me,
you can call me Al"

as Mark says some times bypassing with a small value cap can be a backward step IE like bypassing a BlackGate...having said that I have had some good results doing this on some types of lytic caps with basic CLC supplies but a bigger bang for the money IMO is to regulate the supply, this seems to h...

Nickds1, I will definite keep those caps in mind for another project. I don't have the space this time around though. Those are some interesting thoughts on regulating the supply. I should try and do some measurements to see how stable my amplifiers voltages actually are, maybe get an idea if I shou...

I suppose that is the typical thing that is attempted. I myself never really bought into it much. It's one of those grey areas. Having caps in parallel would lower ESR which is a good thing, but I feel the bypass cap is too small to make a significant difference overall to compensate for a lack of c...

Sorry these were valve amps I was referring to. Although I did build one SS amp and found the same, the power supply needs too much capacitance to make film caps practical.

This is not a question about quality of film vs electrolytic per se, I understand that film caps etc do have a "sound" directly in the signal path. What I don't understand is the compromises made on capacity only to have an undersized film cap in a location that needs capacity, that may ha...

I'm from Canada.