Scottmoose said:
Can I sound like a heritic here and suggest that you don't waste your money on mega-priced caps? I'm not implying that some aren't better than others (they certainly are -engineering tolerances are tighter etc), ....... Electricity is electricity. It's the drive units shifting air that you listen to.
Just a thought.
Cheers
Scott.
Scott agreed with the caveat that the cap is better off costing $10 than 50 cents. I have done experiments of using a 50uF non-polar electrolytic vs. a 50uF polypropylene (which was about 20 times the volume of the lytic in size) and the Poly sounded so much better or the lytic sounded so much worse that I am dumbfounded why people still use lytics... even for cost reasons... The difference is huge. (And I am tin eared not gold..

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The driver I had this connected to was a medium quality Vifa P13WH. With the Polypropylene, the sound was open, clear and holographic. With the Lytic the sound was congested, blurred and constipated.... Had I not witnessed this myself I would not have believed it. Granted the Lytic was rated at 100v and the Poly at 250v but still the signal never crossed 40vac. P to P
As far as $50 caps.... I don't see the benefit either.... I guess I have not played with those yet to form an opinion.
The effect I heard had nothing to do with tolerances, just a characteristic of the cap design I guess.... Also let it be know I am not a "buy expensive cable and see the magic" type either, but when t comes to components, i know they make a difference.
K-