"Scott Dorsey" wrote ...
I swear half of the engineering that goes into typical
consumer electronics design is trying to figure out how
to eliminate capacitors, because good capacitors are
expensive. If you don't care about the expense, you can
build much simpler circuits that soound better.

But OTOH, some of the best premium mic preamps are
also specifically designed with a DC path, including
(relatively) complex servo circuits, etc to avoid the caps.