{"id":1873,"date":"2013-08-27T17:13:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2013-08-27T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:21:19","slug":"4-65a-se-amp-first-tweaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2013\/08\/27\/4-65a-se-amp-first-tweaks\/","title":{"rendered":"4-65A SE Amp: first tweaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed previously, I replaced the gyrator&#8217;s polypropylene\u00a0caps with better ones I had at hand which are\u00a01uF 450Vdc Mundorf Mcap EVO Silver Gold Oil Cap (EVOSGO-080). I should look at lower value. A 220nF or even 100nF one should provide a 1Hz -3dB point with the 4M7 resistor. Anyway, the sound is a tad better in the bass I would say. Nice upgrade but should listen to it more to find what other changes has this capacitor made to the amp:<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-square tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bartola.co.uk\\\/valves\\\/2013\\\/08\\\/27\\\/4-65a-se-amp-first-tweaks\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:35997060}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 840px; height: 420px;\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-original-height=\"420\" > <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 420px; height: 420px;\" data-original-width=\"420\" data-original-height=\"420\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2013\/08\/27\/4-65a-se-amp-first-tweaks\/20130827-171341-jpg\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"416\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"416\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1872\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171341.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1377613642&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.13&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20130827-171341.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171341.jpg?fit=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171341.jpg?fit=840%2C630&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171341.jpg?w=416&#038;h=416&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171341.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171341.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=416%2C416&amp;ssl=1 832w\" width=\"416\" height=\"416\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"416\" data-original-height=\"416\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"20130827-171341.jpg\" alt=\"Replacing the capacitors\" style=\"width: 416px; height: 416px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Replacing the capacitors <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 420px; height: 420px;\" data-original-width=\"420\" data-original-height=\"420\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2013\/08\/27\/4-65a-se-amp-first-tweaks\/20130827-171330-jpg\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"416\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"416\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1871\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171330.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,586\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1377613615&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.13&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20130827-171330.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171330.jpg?fit=300%2C171&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171330.jpg?fit=840%2C481&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171330.jpg?w=416&#038;h=416&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171330.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130827-171330.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=416%2C416&amp;ssl=1 832w\" width=\"416\" height=\"416\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"416\" data-original-height=\"416\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"20130827-171330.jpg\" alt=\"Mu-follower gyrator boards finished\" style=\"width: 416px; height: 416px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Mu-follower gyrator boards finished <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed previously, I replaced the gyrator&#8217;s polypropylene\u00a0caps with better ones I had at hand which are\u00a01uF 450Vdc Mundorf Mcap EVO Silver Gold Oil Cap (EVOSGO-080). I should look at lower value. A 220nF or even 100nF one should provide a 1Hz -3dB point with the 4M7 resistor. Anyway, the sound is a tad better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2013\/08\/27\/4-65a-se-amp-first-tweaks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4-65A SE Amp: first tweaks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[150,5],"tags":[780,105,425],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-65a-se-amplifier-2","category-valves","tag-4-65a","tag-4-65a-dht","tag-4-65a-se-amp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2r2tK-ud","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}