Somewhere, in 2004, I managed to pin Hugo down on this, and he posted (on the BBS, or I copied it to the BBS) that on Mk2a they used the right value capacitors, so removing them is not necessary. On Mk2 units the value was far too high or something.

The Search function might find his actual words.

EDIT: ahh.. here it is:

From: altman
Received: 11/02/04 12:07 PM

I believe (hazy memory) that the value was changed on the mk2a to a lower capacitance, hence they didn't cause the rolloff problem (but did still attenuate EMI, which is what they were there for).

Hugo

-ml