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Offline Structo

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Re: SoZo electrolytics
« Reply #100 on: April 26, 2010, 07:33:14 pm »
You know what's coming don't you?


SHUT UP AND PLAY!!! :laugh: :laugh:

  But seriously, I truly wonder if most of us would even hear a difference.
Say you have four different type caps. They are all measured and for this purpose all have the same value.
The voltage ratings are all the same.
In fact, every measurable value would ideally be the same or within 5%.
 
  From the cheapest Chinese $.02 film cap to the most expensive $25 audiophile film cap.
For this test I think it would be best to limit it to five caps, because after a while I think your brain would try to work too hard to hear differences.

  Then they are put on a rotary switch installed in a box so your hands don't effect the capacitance and short leads are ran inside the amp to say, an interstage coupler between V1 and V2 of an amp unfamiliar to you, or some other agreed upon spot in the circuit but I think a coupling cap is a good spot.
The amp should be a high quality amp and preferably not a pcb amp, don't want to open that can of worms up...

  Now you obscure the amp from view and face the loudspeaker(s).
You are playing a guitar of your own and know what to expect from it.
The amp volume is turned up but not uncomfortably loud.
 The person sitting with the amp turns the dial and gives you a nod.
He may or may not actually turn it. But records your opinion of each nod.

I really wonder if there would be that many audible differences.

I would be totally interested in the results.

Because on amp forums, you will hear usually one or two of the guys that seem to have a lot of experience tweaking amp tone exclaim the virtues of Cap A or Cap B with flowery adjectives that lead you to believe they are the best thing since sliced bread.
Hey, they block DC and pass AC. 
But how they sound while doing that is what we're after.

Did anybody happen to see this? :huh:
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2232581
Don't let out that smoke!

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Re: SoZo electrolytics
« Reply #101 on: April 26, 2010, 09:45:45 pm »
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2232581[I/i]

Thank GOD we are all mature adults and can respect others here!

I realy dont think he was truely the owner of Sozo. The owners of company's of that size and repatation dont hang out with us and let there little secrets out on tube amp forums  :laugh:

but \
 then again they could be here amongst us stealing our ideas and profiting off of our far superior designs!

WTF! I'm thinking law suite  :laugh: :laugh:

OK OK IM SHUTTING UP AND PLAYING MY AMPS AS LOUD AS I CAN
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Re: SoZo electrolytics
« Reply #102 on: April 27, 2010, 12:40:40 am »
Breaking news in the world of Physics:

Latest news from Cern, the tone particle has been found!!!!! It's called the Clapton boson particle and was found when Eric Clapton plugged a 1959 Les Paul cherry sunburst guitar with original PAF pickups into a 1965 Fender Super Reverb amp. The electrons from the coupling caps were transfered into the Large Hadron Collider. Along with the Clapton Boson tone particle was the BBK Quark. Short for the B.B. King Quark which was discovered milliseconds before the Clapton Boson, although it was said to have a cleaner/clearer and longer existence. There were many particles not yet named and some other particles which were rather troublesome problematic and caused damage by colliding with the good tone particles. One of these now called negative tone particles was named the Ted Nugent particle which collided with and destroyed some of the good tone particles instantly. :cry:

This was the highest energy experiment ever done to date. To get the correct electrons it was made sure that the Blue Molded capacitors were used, other caps could not produce the correct electrons for the experiment. This is the first time electrons were used instead of protons. In trying to eliminate the negative Nugent type particles the last magnet in line will be changed from ceramic to an alnico A5 then A2 for the next set of tests. Eventually both the A3 & A4 magnets will also be tested for tone changes.

These tests will be published in Tonequest magazine and other guitar periodicals. These tests should lead to a unified blues theory of music.

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Re: SoZo electrolytics
« Reply #103 on: April 27, 2010, 06:29:52 am »
Breaking news in the world of Physics:



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Re: SoZo electrolytics
« Reply #104 on: April 28, 2010, 10:25:46 am »
OMG! LMAO! too funny! I cant wait to get my copy of the lab results!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: SoZo electrolytics
« Reply #105 on: April 29, 2010, 08:25:22 pm »
lol lol lol  I hear yea  lol lol lol
Any tube unit can be brought back to life.
I never meet a tube I didn't like.

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Re: SoZo electrolytics
« Reply #106 on: May 03, 2010, 10:47:37 am »
I hope everybody got a good laugh. Life is so serious these days a little humor should be injected into everything.

 


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