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Replacing caps in a Mesa Baron and need some help.

I'm on unfamiliar ground here and I hope you guys can help me out. I'm assuming bypass caps would be in the neighborhood of the tube sockets, and power supply caps would be in the area of the transformers? Mesa is sending me their recommended Wima caps, all are .1 uf. Are there better caps? And are caps actually designed to be bypass (amplifier) caps, rather than for instance, crossover caps? Just for reference, I have always felt that the Baron amp is a bit overstated in the bottom end, but liquid midrange and treble.
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himu
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Hello,

The 8 signal caps were orginally sprague 715's
(red/orange color)and are located in line center of board close to the
rca input jacks. I did not like all 0.1 wima caps made
the sound to thin I put half wima and left the other
715's in there. You may have to use wire extensions to
connect the wima's. I am assuming you are using the 5881
tubes, tubes will change the sonic signature also.
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