NAP-140 Clone Amp Kit on eBay

I believe that apart from the careful dimensioning in terms of Power and Capacity, the goodness of a power supply stage is all about the quality of the electrolytic filtering capacitors (always paralleled with a plastic film and/or polypropylene capacitor to compensate for the parasitic inductance) and even more with rectification diodes.
Naim do not put film caps in parallel with their electrolytics nor rectifier diodes. Why not?
 
before assembling (in the right way) my first naim clone, on all my other amp, I tended to mount the diode bridge directly on the capacitor or as close as possible.
that's what I did with my first clone and what
I started it, I had buzz in the hp.
So I took the exact implementation naim without changing the components and my amp and became one of the quietest I've had in my life.
since, as you can do when you assemble a tube amp, I assemble the power supply with temporary wire and I move the elements to get the perfect calm.
I am aware that some topology and some operating class are more sensitive than others but since then, I have no problem buzz.
 
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May be. But on this site I found exactly the same approach when turning on the rectifier bridge to power the pre-amplification circuits. And in my clone it was done as well. http://tech.juaneda.com/en/articles/articles.html



http://tech.juaneda.com/en/index.html
( The link for some reason becomes non-working ...? )


Here are the literal words of the person who posted the photo: "Rectifier bridges. I have already said on this forum that not all 4 diodes are used to power the preamplifiers, but only two."
 
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