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In Reply to: Bypass cap / battery power for linestage posted by Fatcobra on February 29, 2004 at 10:17:12:
In my experience, any battery will sound better when bypassed with high quality film caps.
You will hear tighter & punchier bass, less RF, blacker silences and improved dynamic range. The bypass cap should be placed very close to the active devices.
Since the battery is already a very large "capacitor", there is no point in adding eletrolytic capacitors to your almost perfect DC source. The major reasons most people convert to batteries are: to avoid 60 Hz grunge/harmonics and get rid of the typical electrolytics "bleached" sound.
'lytics have the worse specs and performance of all capacitor types (with tantalum caps a close second).
Interesting note: battery power supplies require much smaller caps than regular AC-DC supplies.
I use 3-10 uF film/foil caps on tube line stage circuits and 47-100 uF metalized film caps for low-current solid state circuits.good luck
Carlos
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Follow Ups
- To answer your question - Carlos 03/2/0405:31:24 03/2/04 (1)
- Re: Thanks - Fatcobra 13:16:17 03/2/04 (0)