Film type capacitors in cathode bypass positions

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Firestorm
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Re: Film type capacitors in cathode bypass positions

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rp wrote:
Firestorm wrote:
M Fowler wrote:What are those solid white 25uf/25v caps made of I have some of those in my stock, they're axial type. They don't look like e-caps.
The ones Fender used, or something else?
I'm curious too what those early 70s white Fender ones were. I figure they had to be e-caps of some sort, they were too small to be anything else at that time, or this time too, I looked and there are no 25/25 films out there.
I've heard they were tantalum. The internet is always true, right?

But then, they'd still be electros, so the usual caveats apply.
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Re: Film type capacitors in cathode bypass positions

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I like these white Mallory 10 mic 25v caps that a little bird used for packing material in something last year. Smaller, white, blue writing. They sound immediately different than another cap same value. Lytics ya know. I like those for third stage bypass or an option for it.

I have been threatening a Solen monster Marshall to see what those do in the power section. Another mess Dave created of a perfectly sane person, I assure you.
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