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Hi,

I came in here after viewing this post hoping ya'll can shed some light.
Post -> http://forumz.tomshardware.com/ce/ [...] 41067.html

Anyways, I use AudioKarma forums frequently now and one tech on there constantly seems to advocate adding bypass caps to the power supply caps.

http://audiokarma.org/forums/showt [...] 080&page=1

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The power rails 'look' like a dead-short to AC signal, at least ideally. The theory is that a signal can modulate the rail voltage...riding on the ripple, so to speak. This can happen because of high currents, or poor transformer regulation, or in the case of high frequencies, the ESR of the capacitor is rising with frequency (they all do this to one extent or another). If this happens, the signal can 'bleed' to the other channel through the rails, but in my book is shows poor design to begin with.

Solutions are to use a quality transformer (usually already there with a good amp), and lots of filter capacitance, with a small film cap (1µf to 4.7µf) connected between the capacitor's '+' and '-' terminals to compensate for the rising ESR with frequency.



My understanding has come to this:

1) Its a bad idea if you don't know whether its a high feedback system or the designer used the Transformer's natural reactance to high frequencies where you might cause instability by doing so.

2) That the frequencies most likely induced would be audio frequencies and that a film bypass of the values he speaks of would do very little to reduce them on the rails anyways.

Is he right to blindly lead people into adding these bypass caps? Should I respond any further than I already have or are my concerns baseless? Maybe I am just way off base here and have a lot more learning to do.

Thanks!
Tristan

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