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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades
Post Subject: This time it has nothing to do with electricityPosted by Romy the Cat on: 1/14/2008

 Paul S wrote:
Romy, isn't this the first time you have tried the film caps for PS and the "ALL-NEW" "SUPER-SOFT" diode bridge?  I would certainly go back to known quantities before I did or un-did anything serious.  Not that I always follow the "1 Change At A Time" rule; I just usually wind up having to do it that way eventually...

Meanwhile, I suppose you'd know for sure if the biggest problem was the effing electricity?

Not trying to piss you off, honestly; my own bad electricity shows up with some new symptoms about every month.  I really should keep an electricity log.

It is not electricity for sure as I have left channel 6-way amp that I was running in identical configuration. The right and left MF (the same signal) sound not as two different amps but as two amps coming from two different planets. I need to investigate it further as something is obviously very wrong.

Well, it “might” be related to electricity as the left amp has single driver getting power from 15.000 cap. With 30mA load that channel works from a virtual DC buttery with this amount of capacitance and the cap never discharged. So, the PS with enormous capacitance usually more immuned to electricity problem that the PS what the power caps are constancy fully recharged. That was that a whole idea to use outsized caps in Milq in order to eliminate the contribution to sound of rectifiers, cables, chokes caps, transformer and the rest crap. Milq is less sensitive to electricity then my front gear, not immuned though…

I will look for the answers replacing the elements in the following order:

1)    S2 Driver
2)    Both filtering Caps
3)    Choke
4)    Rectifiers
5)    Transformer

It is kind of suck as with learning why I lost MF on the right channel I can not to move forward to finish the 6-Ch Milq project.

The Cat

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