Originally Posted by
JeffW
All he did, aside from tidying up the board, was to replace the two capacitors (round objects in the lower left corner) with new equivalents.
Evidently, the original caps were 16.5uf and 7uf. He simply placed a 15uf and a 1.5uf in parallel to make the 16.5uf, and a 4.3uf and 2.7uf in parallel to make a 7uf. Then put an AudioCap Theta 0.01 uF in parallel with each new "bundle". That's just a bypass capacitor to help the sonic qualities, it doesn't change the value of the bundle enough to matter.
You could just make up these two bundles of caps, clip the leads going to the two existing capacitors, and insert the bundles into the clipped leads. Zilch just went the extra mile to clean things up, and reducing all that extra wire can't hurt the circuit.