FYI: Goertz Zobel Networks


I just got off the phone with Goertz, and they mentioned that the Zobel Networks can be installed at either the speaker binding posts, or the amplifier binding posts.

I thought I'd pass this information on, as I've seen others mention difficulty getting a tight connection on the spades, while also adding the Zobels. This is my case with the Vandersteen 3A, with small screw terminals.

If I had binding posts, I could just solder bananas to the Zobels and install that way, but now I was told that I will be able to do that on the amplifier end.

gthrush1

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Non-polarized capacitors are polarized, so you can orient them one way and get one sound / reading and flip them around and get different sound / readings.

Really? I guess I have learned something then. I just had Andy Bartha, who does mods over for a DAC shootout and he showed me the guts of his mods to a Musical Fidelity upsampling DAC (BTW - the Perpetual Tech with Dan Wright's mods sounds better IMO). Andy swears by non-polarized black-gate caps. However, he uses them in the power-supply and decoupling, which is polarized by definition. Is there a way to tell which way to install would be best?