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more than silicone, it might be hot glue.

Welcome to Phoenix, Andrej , it's just NICE to meet you here too, my friend. :) I am sure you'll love this place.

no, the B965 has full dolby bypass, so when dolby is switched off it's totally ruled out of the signal path. this bass roll-off experienced by AlexSE is making both myself and himself going mad for quite some time now, even because I also own the B965 and the same model/version of Focusrite...

nice brand there! I own an old Schlumberger Solartron 7150 plus digital multimeter (got it because of an advice by Alex/ANT) and am just happy with it! I use it mostly to measure AC True RMS and it does it very nicely on all the audio frequency spectrum and above, in fact I can happily measure...

Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso "Io Sono Nato Libero" Japanese 1980 reissue of this italian prog masterpiece from 1973, played on ANT's phono preamp. :D:cool: this exact press (but I also have an italian one, though): https://www.discogs.com/it/release/2671795-Banco-Del-Mutuo-Soccorso-Io-Sono-Nato-Libero

I see they still make it new, but it's the 520DX. edit: but they say it sounds quite different than the older 520 , though.

When there is a fire here in the woods (usually every year at summer) , it doesn't need to think about any conspiracy theories, because just ALL the times the fire turned out to be man made on purpose by some pyromaniacs. From the traces found in many of these cases, the policemen discovered...

sometimes i've experienced some weird behaviour of the mouse pointer (jumping here and there) and it seemed it was because it didn't like the kind/colour of the mat i was using. for example, I have a couple good/old Logitech which just don't work on a green mat I have here. another mouse, still...

those axial "nichicon" polypropylene caps are actually made here by ICEL, an italian producer. I believe nichicon sort of bought the brand/factory. and yes, they are quite big and quite expensive compared to electrolytics. Don't know if it worths to put them into cassette decks, they would...

Of course, you meant bipolar vs polarized or non polar vs polar/polarized... as bipolar and non polar are the same thing. Anyways, I doubt a true bipolar is the exact same as two polarized put in anti-series... i.e. one of the mods suggested by Alex on AIWA AD-F880 (and similar) decks is to...

As you just know, I am not expert enough to answer your questions/doubts regarding the specific caps there in the circuit. My best guess is that a PP film cap is better on just about everything compared to an electrolytic but, of course, it's much bigger in size and it can cost more. So...

Rubycon is a good brand. At C47/48 (is it in the neg. feedback?) I would usually go with a UKL. But one of those PP film can't do bad, I guess... maybe they are even better (if they fit). Of course, if you take a 330nF PP film at 400Volts it will be quite big... should see the size of a lower...

Just finished overhauling the Technics RS-B555 for my brother (also replaced the head with a new one) and I am just satisfied, to the point that I would be tempted to keep it for myself (joking... I am just HAPPY to give my brother something which sounds just GOOD). Also, I've recorded a...

for good bipolars, go with Panasonic SU-A series... I always used either them or the Nichicon UES depending only on the values I found available. for very small values (under 1uF) we could consider those Panasonic PP film you mentioned before in this thread, the ECWF(D) series but the ones...

actually, in the old days, we could enjoy a good piece of gear and the good sound but, about music, his tastes were too "easy" then he didn't like what i liked to listen and viceversa. But, to my surprise, 3-4 yrs ago, he finally started to like some good old rock he never enjoyed before... one...

yesterday night, my (3 yrs older) brother came here and I've played some vinyl with this new magic phono preamp, which he hadn't listened yet. I let him sit in the sweet spot and put the needle on a few songs he just knew well... and he was just IMPRESSED like I also did. Moreover, after these...

Today, I've spent the sunday afternoon and evening while playing some vinyl, something like 7-8 LPs... (yes, listening to vinyl on this preamp is like a drug as it makes you heavily addicted! :p ) Anyways, this time I put back the inexpensive blue "C" conical needle on the AT-VM95 cart, because...

In fact, day by day, vinyl record by vinyl record, I am discovering more and more NICE surprises! :D The first night I had powered it on and tried it, the very first thing which jumped to my ears was the ability to render the "attack" of the sounds/instruments in a much stronger but, at the...

I might be wrong... but, by memory, I seem to remember that while recapping a few decks based on discrete preamps (transistor based preamps, not op-amp preamps) , it can happen that one pin of the transistor (maybe the collector?) goes to a DC supply rail through a capacitor and the transistor...

It seems Alex/A.N.T. just gave a precious hint, which adds even some more on what I had learnt before (from some of his older posts, of course). Just.... I suspect Black Gate caps aren't available that much often at now (don't they?). well, my eyes will be exactly 50 yo in just few days, but...