I know this may not interest those of you not into DIY or how things work, but we have been playing with oil chokes, and let me tell you they may be the secret to the secret sauce!
I have been using a preamp that uses 4 oil chokes in the power supply, this preamp happens to be one of, no, the best preamp I ever heard. What made it special? The DHT tube, the exotic iron?, the oil chokes, the copper chassis'? Maybe a combo?
Well, my friend replaced his hammond choke in his Counterpoint Hybrid amp with a oil choke...
I was stunned, all trace of solid stateness is gone, replaced with simply gorgeous tone, air , openess , 3 dimensionality and weight throughtout the spectrum, not subtle at all. His hybrid sounds like a great tube amp with all the control of a SS. Something hybrids promised but never delivered.
The oil chokes are old and hard to find, and I am sure some guys with degrees in EE would poo poo them, but they probably never heard one. This is a whole new product, a renaissance of an old product. Oil caps have come back again in their modern iterations, we should be so lucky that oil chokes make a come back.
They are not subtle.
Don't look for these in any modern commercial product, there are just too few available for a manufacturer to even think about using them, but the DIY crowd have been playing with some secrets that eluded the masses. The mind wanders...imagine the possibilties ( I can)...very exciting stuff
Just thought you might want to know.
mike
If supreme musicality and emotion is what you are searching for, these chokes may be able to help