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In Reply to: Re: Capacitance and voltage regulation posted by RJM on December 24, 2002 at 03:01:33:
This may be a misunderstanding, if adding more caps overemphasizes your bass, accordingly to experiences hard gain after much experimentation, the reason is NOT that you're adding too much but that you have added marginally enough.Two possibilities from here:
a) you add more and it improves (becase the additional marginal effects are raising the bar for your ears and you have grown impatient to what you have been listening to about the bass, or even an improved but not good enough version of it.
b) (much more likely) other stages are at fault, look specifically for two these areas:
i) woolly bass in stages down stream (amp, power amp, pre-amp, pre-amp part of integrated amp, which was a big culprit for me).
ii) RFI interference. If you place 0.1 uf ceremic caps at power pins of all digital chips, after recticiers at power rails, right before and after 78xx 79xx chips, you WON'T EVER REGRET ! Also do that to the the additional caps you've added since their extra leads acts as attenna. ALso Op amps love this or else their energy will be spent in RFI amplification and this can also lead to bad bass. But more important is keeping the digital chain clean. Good base will come and subwoofer integration, for example, will be a non-problem.It's a matter of personal choice, I also love a "light lean sound" for a long while. Then you give it more time and you may find that the sound breaks somewhere from being dynamic to dull. Also when you're bass is good, your mids and highs will be gorgeous, not just good!. For me I subsequently took the path to correct it all the way thru to bass and it took other parts to match and it forces you to weak everything in the path downstream. But you will end up being a happier listener I trust !
For myself this is the happy conclusion after much experimentation (3-4 sessions a day, over a year). YMMV. Good luck!
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