[HAM] Fire In the Hole!

[pete mazich]

>Scott wrote:
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>Hey Pete! Good to see you!
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>back at you.. I enjoy your posts very much
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>But I have a hard time buying the idea that different cap types can change
>the tone. I mean, they all do the same thing: capacitate.

>absolutely, but based on some of the things I've read (I did a 
>little investigating last nite) , caps do react differently 
>depending on their material , frequency and/or voltage applied so 
>that may account for my hearing a difference between metal foil and 
>polyprop in that particular application. Interestingly enough, when 
>I tried  different types in a TG there was no noticeable difference. 
>Like yourself I was also told years ago not to use ceramic caps for 
>audio because as they age they eventually become microphonic-I've 
>heard this happening in Fender amps and several AO-28's and the 
>articles I pored over last nite bear this out also.  I'm sure 
>Hammond, Leslie, Fender etc. used these types due to their cost 
>effectiveness and/or because that was all that was available in 
>those values back then- not because of any particular "sound" they 
>may have had. I don't buy into audio phoolery either.
>
>  My 31H has extra power and headroom because it has a larger, non-stock
>power tranny, so a higher B+ actually works.


>  >same w/ a 51C amp that I have; extra iron in the power tranny due 
>to that amp originally being a two-channel- when it was converted to 
>122 type it absolutely rumbled....
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>
>I like Uncle Harv's mod advice best: these amps were well-designed to begin
>with and there really aren't any mods that improve them.


pretty much- all you can do is upgrade tubes and lower the noise 
floor- they sound great and are pretty bullet-proof as tube amps go. 
I really wish Harv would post more often....

again, I'm way into the technical posts....

pete

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