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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] amplifier spitting out noise? (off topic?)

2008-03-22 by Roy J. Tellason

On Thursday 20 March 2008 22:00, timothy kosiorek wrote:
> Hello:You probably don't need capacitors,that would be needed if your amp
> had a continous hum,

While I am not very much in agreement with the folks that seem to find it 
necessary to change out capacitors wholesale in older gear,  on the one hand,  
I have encountered some situations where bad caps did make an amp noisier 
than it would have been otherwise.

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