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Oh yeah - safety stuff. Some caps can hold a charge (something like a battery), so discharge the ones you are removing by shorting the cap leads with a 1 meg resistor held with something non-conductive. This is a good practice to get into, some power caps can hold a hefty jolt if not...

Hi Yogi, Cap rolling is just as fun as tube rolling IMO. Auricaps and Hovlands sound accurate and "hifi-ish", foil/paper/oil sounds a little smoother on the top end, and teflon (there are some cheap Russian teflon caps on the market now that look interesting though I havn't tried them) is...

Excellent, thanks guys! The HK units look good, and the 320-Z looks like great bang for the buck. It has 7.1 processing, so that will give me an excuse to cut an extra rear channel enclosure. If I want to get really ambitious I could also put together a little 7 channel tube preamp at some point...

Thanks Jonathan, that is good to know. This will be a bedroom system, so the volume won't be an issue. If this idea of using fullrange drivers in a HT works out I have 5 1960's vintage Electrovoice 12TRXBs that I will use in a living room system at some point in the future. They are built...

Hi Folks, I searched the archives and couldn't find an answer, so I hope this is the right place to ask this question... I am approaching HT for the first time, but I have played with very low power SE tube systems and high sensitivity horns for a while (for two channel music). I am...