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[Giaime]

And I like them that way!

[poobah]

What if I told you there was a special paint that would make the caps sound better????????????????????

[Stocker]

Aside from shielding users from the potentials that may appear on the capacitor cans, the ugly plastic has a couple other advantages:

If you need to replace it, look at it and there the values are in plain text
Some caps are wrapped in such a manner as to contain or direct a large leak / minor explosion so that they do not turn into little bombs

[rcavictim]

Originally posted by poobah


What if I told you there was a special paint that would make the caps sound better????????????????????

Ah yes. I reccommend DC-3 paint since C-37 is a copyrighted magic sound improvement coating and costs too much.

[Tweeker]

Wall Candy brand white paint will help damp mechanical resonances reducing microphonics, and tasty too. Users agree, it improves psychoacoustic quality, Nero's fiddle sounds grandiose on systems so modified.

[poobah]

Doesn't take much to get you guys started...

[Giaime]

And we aren't talking about cables yet!!!

[rcavictim]

Originally posted by poobah
Doesn't take much to get you guys started...

[TomWaits]

Originally posted by Giaime

I thought about this for my preamp a couple of posts up, but since I use a voltage doubler, the alluminium can carries 150V...

My aluminum cans don't; Rubycon, Jamicon and Mallory have all worked for me without conductivity to the barrel. I have certainly not tried every cap out there and peeling the label can be very destructive depending on the result you require. Like I said cheap and dirty. It is a cheap trick and it has worked for me and it is not for everyone.

Originally posted by Giaime

why don't you try the classic grounded cathode -> DC coupling -> cathode follower

Please post this schematic or your favorite version of it, it sounds nice.

Shawn.

[TomWaits]

Originally posted by ddd
I like your approach, Tom. Any observations?

Sound? To me?
Nothing to it, it is clean and the circuit leaves very little to the tube to color the stage. Great for a line stage that you require only a little gain from, from time to time. I wasn't looking for "warm" when I decided on building this. I must have studied and downloaded a thousand schematics and I'm not exagerating. I want sterile and clinical on a linestage perhaps you don't.

Try it to see. I did it in a weekend including the case.

Shawn.