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Originally Posted by Reptil  Actually my axxe got refurbished, and has new caps. it helped the low end a lot. It's deeper than my old untouched other axxe. I wouldn't call it a mod, since it didn't change the design. |
Did you replace them by yourself? And all the tantalum caps are replaced? I have read somewhere that these tantalum caps are not that good in audio application. So, there is theoretical possibility to improve the frequency response, if these caps are changed with the better quality electrolytic caps.
But I'm really confused since there are a few film caps on the main board that supposed to be the best suited for audio.
So, ARP engineers used a few good caps and the rest worse ones - may be the latters are not so critical soundwise and recapping them won't bring the whole new sound to the instrument?
Anyway, this is really an pleasant work - the restoration of an old instrument, because the result could be heard.