panasonic fm vs elna silmic 2

[king4quarter]

Elna Silmic II I beg your pardon

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[jean-paul]

Merhaba Umut. You can't go wrong with Pana FC/FM. They are just fine, can have high temperature, have low ESR and you won't probably experience a failure with them within a very long time span.

Audiophile caps can sound better and sometimes still have copper lead wires but the advantages of the other features of good industrial caps and the price are interesting. IMO Panasonic FC/FM have the best price/quality ratio and they're often much better than the types that are used by manufacturers in devices. FWIW I like FC somewhat more than the FM types.

BG are real good and maybe the best but they're very hard to find. They are also much larger than the same value with the same voltage rating of other brands/types. This makes them harder to use. See a BG 1000 uF to see what I mean. For small coupling caps there is not always a physical difference. The N series are such an example. Best of BG are the N series and NX HiQ types.

Silmic II are tonally somewhat better then FC/FM but rated 85 degrees so not suitable for hot amps. Elna RJH is very good but for some reason they are quite expensive while they are not much better than FM. I have a bag with 200 pieces 10 uF 50V so if you can use those send me a PM. Never liked Cerafines, IMO they are overrated.

For coupling purposes you can use Wim MKS2 XL film caps if you need values till 10 uF with 5 mm pitch. Much better than most electrolytic caps. Wima even made 22 uF 16V in 5 mm and I have good experience with those and the 4.7/50.

[Ron AKA]

Originally Posted by umut1001

Hi.I want to use high quality caps in power supply of my preamps and buffers.In some tests I saw that elna silmic 2 have the best quality.But i see that in diyaudio.com polls people use panasonic fm most.I can buy cheaply both these capacitors.Which one should i choose as a best power supply cap of preamps? thanks

The Panasonic FM are better. Just check the specs for ESR and ripple current capability. Better still use the Panasonic FR for equal or better performance than the FM.

[Pano]

I never really found better than the Panasonic FM for cleaning up noise in Class-D amps (measured). We can hope that your preamp does not have those kind of noise issues - but the FMs do well across a wide frequency band.

Lots of caps mentioned here. Plenty to choose from. I never cared for Black Gate, FWIW.

[king4quarter]

Are Nichicon KZ better than Elna Silmic II?

And where can I find Panasonic PZ for good price??

[king4quarter]

Those 3 Caps seem to be recommended by many but which one REALLY??

[Pano]

I've never seen the PZ series.

[king4quarter]

I've seen then but for $20 each!! You need to search google by part number to find them..don't ask me what they are now lol

[king4quarter]

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