Yes, I assumed as much; the UK price I mentioned was also for a pair. You guys are getting fleeced. Although I suspect we in the UK are going to know the feeling very soon...
The fact is the people in the Antipodes get fleeced on common components like coils and inductors. Even drive units. If England was not in the EU, we would be able to send esential supples. I'd take some delicious NZ Lamb in return. 😀
Those Aussies pay about 3X more than they ought to. 😱
What do we think about the Second Test at Lord's between Oz and England? Looks dead Drawn to me with a mere 3 hours to go:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/47324907
But there's three more Tests to go. I'm gonna enjoy this late summer.
Then we turn our attention to the "B" word. And after that, we could do some loudspeakering.
Those Aussies pay about 3X more than they ought to. 😱
What do we think about the Second Test at Lord's between Oz and England? Looks dead Drawn to me with a mere 3 hours to go:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/47324907
But there's three more Tests to go. I'm gonna enjoy this late summer.
Then we turn our attention to the "B" word. And after that, we could do some loudspeakering.
Typically, no matter how much the impedance of the main cap rises, the impedance of the so-called bypass capacitor is still way too large (in comparison) to make any significant difference.
Unless you're working with RF frequencies, you can't improve a cap by adding a bypass cap across it. In the audio realm, it's one of those things that sounds perfectly logical until you do the math.
Unless you're working with RF frequencies, you can't improve a cap by adding a bypass cap across it. In the audio realm, it's one of those things that sounds perfectly logical until you do the math.
Hmm, FWIW I was taught to create capacitor and resistor 'banks'/'grids' using small, low tolerance components to get the desired values, which at least back then was 'dirt' cheap in comparison.
To me, a bypass cap is one you use to let through some portion of the highs in a CD horn EQ filter.
Do you ever search the links in the web archive? I've been pretty lucky overall.
GM
RE:'people in the Antipodes get fleeced on common components" - we get fleeced on anything imported...don't get me started on guitar strings or Whiskey.... & Paypal handily extracts the Govt GST (=VAT) without even asking....
Re"delicious NZ Lamb" - I'll be there next week, but meat prices in Aus are going though the roof because of drought....
hopefully my Bro will have bagged a nice deer, venison & abalone on the horizon....
Re"delicious NZ Lamb" - I'll be there next week, but meat prices in Aus are going though the roof because of drought....
hopefully my Bro will have bagged a nice deer, venison & abalone on the horizon....
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Many years ago I did try the Vishay 0.01uF 1837 caps as mentioned by Tony G in his cap test but zilch effect IMO.
Common sense is immensely superior to any cap test there might be for the most common reason, and you know what that is.
Don't you mean if the UK was not in the EU Steve? 😉
Forgetting about the other three constituent countries of the UK is just not cricket! 🙂
I thought Scotland wanted to stay in the EU?
I just priced caps from the UK and while they are cheaper postage costs from the UK to Oz seem to have tripled recently
I just priced caps from the UK and while they are cheaper postage costs from the UK to Oz seem to have tripled recently
System7 your link to the Troels classic has me itching to make my own Vifa version soon; finally using some of my collection of classic Vifa drive units, M-22 + P-13 + D27
IMO typical added *resistance always trumps cap's (..at least with respect to cap's that are NOT electrolytic, that I wouldn't know about..).
In fact on more than a few occasions I've heard no effect with a change in capacitors UNTIL a resistor part was changed.
*subjective (character) result of the resistor, not the actual resulting resistance and it's effect on spl (..which is very significant with even modest changes in spl).
In fact on more than a few occasions I've heard no effect with a change in capacitors UNTIL a resistor part was changed.
*subjective (character) result of the resistor, not the actual resulting resistance and it's effect on spl (..which is very significant with even modest changes in spl).
I assume GM is referring to the context of which he spoke, i.e. a cap in a CD horn EQ filter designed to bypass the inductor & allow the HF to pass without attenuation. Without the resistor it would be a bottomless LC notch. 😉
Then that might not be a damping resistor as such, maybe. I believe GM was (should we take a book on who guesses? 😀) talking yesterday about an RC in series with the driver.
However at radio frequencies, sometimes a noise source is bypassed and needs a resistor somewhere to dissipate the energy.
However at radio frequencies, sometimes a noise source is bypassed and needs a resistor somewhere to dissipate the energy.
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