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Re: Bypass cap question

sherod, hi. My advice to you is save your pennies and go for a pair of 4.0 uF Teflon. It may have to be a composite cap. Can't think of a source for a 4.0 unless Rel decided to do it. The cost will be high one way or the other. 4.0 Rel Cap TFT Teflon tin foil or perhaps CPU copper foil and polypropylene. I'd stick with TFT. Or, better yet, do the preamp with a transformer output that obviates the need for a big cap. I have a SET homebrew with no resistors or capacitors in the signal path. It evolved to this via several versions and revisions. It has a Type 45 in the output which may have a lot to do with its sonics but as it has become without R or C in the signal path it now provides a level of music truth I once thought was impossible. I was wrong. It is. Nothing in this world is perfect we must remind ourselves, but this amplifier gets me closer to the groove than just about anything. It's almost spooky.


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