Black Gate standard on a Pimeta

[ramuman]

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Originally Posted by PinchyCM it's not like u can look into your amp anyways Nichicon are nice as well. but i have ELNA cerafines in my PPA

Where's dooboo?

 

[Tomo]

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would recommend using something else like metalized film or polyprop for bypassing, tantalums are not very good for audio.

tschanrm -

Tantalum is pretty good despite people talking all over the place. They are talking about using Tantalum "in the direct signal path." But Tantalums are pretty good for bypassing; in fact, they have superior BYPASSING capability at the high frequency range. Yes, this comment is for BYPASSING.

Just for the note, caps good for COUPLING are not necessarily good for BYPASSING. And, you all know caps good for BYPASSING are not necessarily good for COUPLING.

For examples, it is not very recommendable to use expensive high quality FILM\FOIL capacitors for bypassing because once they fail they fail abruptly and sometimes fatally. (Instead you use Metalized Film Capacitors. These have self-healing capability and automatically isolate the failed section of the films. Cool tidbit huh?)

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[aeriyn]

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Originally Posted by Edwood Tangent carries Cerafines for PPA and Pimeta now. http://www.tangentsoft.net/audio/shop/ -Ed

Awesome!

 

[Syzygies]

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Originally Posted by Edwood Tangent carries Cerafines for PPA and Pimeta now. http://www.tangentsoft.net/audio/shop/

ELNA Cerafine 220µF/35V, $1.25 12.5 x 25 mm
ELNA Cerafine 470µF/25V, $1.00 12.5 x 25 mm

In other words, the largest that fit in a PIMETA, at the two most common voltages. Panasonic FMs come taller, ELNAs don't.

 

[mono]

NM

 

[tangent]

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The Cerafines that were discontinued were the high voltage large can stuff

True. I have another order for ROAs in progress, so I can verify that they are still available.