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question about allesandro caps and dlite turret board

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are the caps worth the money. Or is A guitar amp the wrong application for these? They seem to be aimed towards HI FI home audio.



Will a turret board with double turrets fit in a brownnote dlite chassis?

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These caps are really great in tweeds, but would probably be really clinical sounding in a D-style. There are also much less expensive alternatives if you really want PIO caps, the Mojo caps for example are very nice(have them in my 5E3 deluxe).
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There's some really great Russian PIOs available for pennies.

My favorites are old Gudemans pirated from vintage military avionics. I was skeptical until they tested precisely on value with zero leakage at full working voltage. Donning my safety goggles I tested a few at 1000 volts still with acceptable results.
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Re: question about allesandro caps and dlite turret board

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they sound good in tweeds? I have a narrow panel princeton that needs a cap job. Maybe I will try some PIO in it. I just wanted to try them out is something.

AS I write I think that would be the best bet. I have orange drops in my twin, using mallory 150 in the deluxe build. I will use the PIO in the tweed and check it out.

Its nice to have an eric johnson signature strat to play throught all of this! 8)
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Some of those EJ strats are better than Custom Shop Guitars! If your narrow panel tweed is original don't replace the coupling caps unless they are leaky!!!!!! :shock: :shock:

Use Atom's or F&T's for the filter caps, Even TAD's will work.
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Re: question about allesandro caps and dlite turret board

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dragonbat13 wrote:Will a turret board with double turrets fit in a brownnote dlite chassis?
Yes. The chassis is 2.5" tall so no problems. Many of our original prototypes were turret board construction, but I prefer working with eyelets.
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Normster wrote:
dragonbat13 wrote:Will a turret board with double turrets fit in a brownnote dlite chassis?
Yes. The chassis is 2.5" tall so no problems. Many of our original prototypes were turret board construction, but I prefer working with eyelets.
off topic, but just curious why do you prefer eyelets?
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I get a faster solder joint with eyelets and it's much faster for me to populate the board.
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Normster wrote:I get a faster solder joint with eyelets and it's much faster for me to populate the board.
Thanks Norm
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