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Frank Dresser wrote (in part):
Replacing the caps might give better audio, if the caps are causing a noticable percentage of the distortion. Capacitors aren't perfectly linear and those nonlineararities will cause distortion. Steve Bench has posted tests of several caps: http://members.aol.com/sbench102/caps.html However, the Kiwa article doesn't mention detector distortion, which can be a significant source of distortion, at least with diode detectors. The subject of detector distortion has been beaten to death here and on other forums. One post I seem to recall involved some simple mods to a common diode detector which significantly reduced distortion but also reduced output by about 3db. The Kiwa article doesn't mention detector distortion but it does say: "High definition speaker wire and gold plated connectors are recommended for any remote speaker connection" ---------------------------------------------- Thanks for the link showing capacitor distortion. And I was wondering about detector distortion, and the distortion caused by crappy audio power ICs. I will have to wade through ancinet post looking for teh thread on reducing detector distorion. That strikes me as a good first step. The one thing that made me ask quetions was the "high diffiniton...) comment. That stuff has always reminded me of snake oil. Terry |
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