[SpudHarris]

Double post - Sorry

 

[SpudHarris]

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Originally Posted by ryuzoh /img/forum/go_quote.gif That's up to condition of the PCB. If you would damage patterns on it, I can't assure to recover.

Cheeky... nothing will be damaged Ryuzoh, I'm very good with the soldering iron

 

[uvak]

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Originally Posted by qusp /img/forum/go_quote.gif you were posting at the same time as me. those do not replace anything of the above. they are optional bypass caps; but I will be using something else here. mundorf MKP if they will fit, but otherwize i'm thinking even silver mica

Thanks Qusp for the prompt clarifications.

What is the plus point for using Mundorf MKP or silver mica over Blackgates? Would you like to explain.

 

[qusp]

I was just thinking the same thing; I dont think ive ever seen blackgates so expensive!! how about the 2200uf at 300USD lol. I mean sure they're good caps and apparently they are running out; but OMG!! you can get some pretty serious caps for that

@ uvak
No problem, film caps are in my experience faster than even the best electrolytic caps (especially low capacitance) and the whole point of a bypass cap in many situations is to provide a path that undesired (or highly desired) components of the signal would rather take and that the larger capacity cap being bypassed may not have the ability to pass as efficiently. higher uf film caps are HUGE and in many cases in fact there is no equivalent. 10000uf films are rare and maaaasssive as well as expensive. small value film bypass caps can bring some of this benefit in a size and cost that is appropriate for this purpose.

 

[qusp]

combined above

 

[ryuzoh]

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Originally Posted by SpudHarris /img/forum/go_quote.gif Cheeky... nothing will be damaged Ryuzoh, I'm very good with the soldering iron

Alright, relieved

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Originally Posted by qusp /img/forum/go_quote.gif I was just thinking the same thing; I dont think ive ever seen blackgates so expensive!!

Agreed....and the stock is just only decreasing.....
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[qusp]

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Originally Posted by SpudHarris /img/forum/go_quote.gif Cheeky... nothing will be damaged Ryuzoh, I'm very good with the soldering iron

so you keep saying

 

[SpudHarris]

You're a cheeky git as well

 

[qusp]

 

[jamato8]

Black Gates are best bypassed with BG's. They sound the best if bypassing is used. I confirmed this over years as has Audio Note UK. It is the ways the frequencies are handled by bypassing and the way the larger cap interacts with the non BG's. But its all good.

 

[qusp]

whatever ;') in a realm that is largely 'inaudible' I wonder how this was decided? i'll be performing my own tests thanks. I know you love BG Jon, but I personally feel that film caps always make better bypass caps

 

[jamato8]

It isn't that I love BG's it is their special configuration of materials, esp the nonpolar, that makes them work and react differently from other lytics.

I have used Solen and the like and actually prefer BG's though I don't find solen very good unless they are bypassed with a good film cap and then the white overlay of texture they can impose is dealt with.

 

[qusp]

yeah I know about the whole super E frame non-inductive thang, but I still find that no matter what, especially in the signal path there is something not quite right about the bass/lower mids. its somehow a touch tubby or something. to my taste and IMO perhaps its just too much of a good thing or something I dunno

 

[theory_87]

I may use the eol panasonic am caps if i can't find bg. panasonic am caps is very transparent and open sounding

 

[qusp]

yeah I like the panas too, but tend to prefer the Nichicon KZ series. I prefer panas in analogue power supply though and sanyo SEPC in digital supplies. will be trying a SEPC, KZ, BG and silmic II version of the diamond buffers, I like the sepc though and they come in SMD version for more compact size in this application