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Re: Mesa Boogie Preamp

1/15/2000 3:07 AM
Wild Bill	Re: Mesa Boogie Preamp Joe, I sold Phillips film caps for years and as far as I know they are still making them. What may be confusing the issue is that in America Phillips had bought the old Centralab (king of the ceramics!) company and most of the old staff still seems to think they only sell their old line. If you push or dig a little deeper you'll find film cap info - Electrosonic in Toronto Ontario Canada has lots. They sound good, too. Traynor used tons of them in their amps. Just thought I'd give you the benefit of a Canadian perspective. Phillips films are about the only thing we CAN easily source domestically for tube amps! (Except for thetubestore.com, of course!)

1/15/2000 3:07 AM

Wild Bill

Re: Mesa Boogie Preamp

Joe, I sold Phillips film caps for years and as far as I know they are still making them. What may be confusing the issue is that in America Phillips had bought the old Centralab (king of the ceramics!) company and most of the old staff still seems to think they only sell their old line. If you push or dig a little deeper you'll find film cap info - Electrosonic in Toronto Ontario Canada has lots.
They sound good, too. Traynor used tons of them in their amps.
Just thought I'd give you the benefit of a Canadian perspective. Phillips films are about the only thing we CAN easily source domestically for tube amps! (Except for thetubestore.com, of course!)