Capacitor-less amps

All amplifiers have capacitors. I suppose theoretically one could be run off humongous batteries, but converting AC to DC will require capacitors. Many companies tout having no capacitors in the signal path. This requires an extra level of care as speakers will detonate if significant DC is present on the output. There are numerous design techniques to eliminate the DC without caps.

Vecteur, YBA and REDesigns all make amps with no Caps in the signal path.

They are all very natural sounding amps and quite stunning in the right system. This is no accident.

SimAudio claims that their amps have no caps in the signal path. I believe that they do put caps in the power supply, though.

I think what he meant is that no caps in the signal path. I think Arcam Diva series do not have caps in the signal path either. They use some kind of servo circuits on the output to remove any DC residual.

But for the power section of the amp, there must be caps there.

wavac amps don't have caps in the signal path.

btw, they sound wonderful.

rhyno