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Originally Posted by marshman
This question (or maybe the answer) throws a wrench into my mental works...I guess I was always under the impression that all the filter caps were basically combined, in principal, into one large 'tub' of capacitance, and though it wouldn't matter if an amp was built with 6x10uf or 2x30uf or 1x50uf+1x10uf...apparently that is NOT the case?
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It matters when the capacitors are separated by elements (resistors/chokes) in order to create isolated supply points for different stages of the amp at different voltages.
Otherwise, paralleling caps together just results in one big cap.