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But alas, the coolness factor of a 1-Farad capacitor would be worth it alone! I remember a professor discharching a "full" 1-Farad capacitor in a darkened lecture hall by placing a bar of metal between the contacts.
Result? An extremely bright and VERY LOUD spark.
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Re: QS series surrounds
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Gee, now I want to open up my H/K 525 to see what it looks like! Probably won't though; it's a pain to move it around...
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Dude, I must have slept through that lecture. You didn't have the motorcycle riding dork for Physics 7B, did you?
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Peter,
Go ahead and buy those 2-Farad power caps and connect them between your amp's power rails. Beware that these can tolerate only up to 20V DC, so you will have to connect ~4 of them in series for each of the plus/minus power rails, depending of your amp's rail voltage. That will still be a whopping 0.5 Farad. You will surely experience a HUGE improvement in dynamic range and sound stage, and feel as if Yo Yo Ma is playing right in front of you. But in order to get these effects, you will have to display those 8 big capacitors prominently in front of your amp. A slight inconvenience in ergonomics is a small price to pay...
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I think you're on to something!
Someone needs to design a solid-state amp that is reminiscent of a tube amp, with huge capacitors proudly displayed externally. The caps could be placed inside a protective halogen-gas-filled tube that glows brighly during moments of high current output. Hmmmmm....
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I like the bit about "computer grade" in the description. I don't know of any computers that have 2.0 Farad caps in them! Sounds like a good way to melt a motherboard to me...
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