[sdiy] "Boutique" capacitors

[Ingo Debus]

Am Samstag, 05.02.05 um 22:01 Uhr schrieb René Schmitz:

> Especially if you consider that the typical DC blocking cap in an 
> audio chain will be always dimensioned so that no large AC drops do 
> occur. So the voltage across it might be distorted, but its *way* down 
> with respect to the signal that is passing.
>
> Caps in filters are a different thing.
>

But where's the audiophile who cares if a cap is a filter cap, a 
blocking cap in the signal chain, a power supply bypass cap or a X- or 
Y-cap at the mains power input? ;->

Anyone read the review on t.bone mics in the latest issue of Keyboards 
(German mag)? "Smoky coloring sound of tantalums..." I bet the author 
hasn't bothered to look what these tantalums are for in the circuit.

Ingo