Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp

Alex 

Does anyone compared directly:

1. Vcap CuTf vs Mundorf Supreme Silver Gold Oil?

Vcap Cutf is in the class by itself if untilizing in electronics application. If you are using it for speakers then the Mundorf SGO is a much better cap on speakers. 

i personally would not spend so much on caps upgrade unless i know what trannies that are fitted on the unit.  

The amp comes out of the same factory a Cayin and PrimaLuna. I have seen it reported that there is some amount of sharing of parts. The transformers are indeed decent.

For the Muzishare amps they are made in the Line Magnetic factory. And once again some comments online and photos indicating identical components being used.

Electrolytics are Nichicon so just for the Willsenton they cheaped out on the coupling capacitors.

In a break-out box, I have compared V-caps with Solen teflon f&f  and Relcap teflon f&f. The latter are good and quite similar IMO, and the V-caps are bright. To my ears, in my system, in my comparison. YMMV.

Lots of great recommendations and suggestions on upgrading.  I for one really believe in it.  I went from Janzens to Duelund copper CAST coupling capacitors in my tube-preamp and at first, I thought not such a good upgrade, but after ~100-hours of break-in, wow...  Increased inner detail and for lack of a better term, body in the music. My good friend has a pair of Welborne 300-B SET's that we're going to do a component upgrade to sometime next year.  They sound surprisingly great for their cost and what they are.  Simple circuit and all...  I believe they will sound notably better with these upgrades.  As many have said, please don't judge the switch until you've given some time for break-in !  

There was a very very slight smoothness added in the very upper treble after about 20 hours run in versus very sharp and defined treble notes when caps were first installed. 

Just last night I installed NOS RCA rectifiers and preamp tubes. So it will not be possible to report back any more cap break in changes. The resolution of the music increased along with the smoothness and musicality with the NOS tubes. I also tried new production Tung-Sol but they sounded gritty in comparison. Maybe new tubes need to break in as well so I am running them in another amp for now.

I am waiting on a delivery of PSVANE 300B TII matched pair power tubes as the last upgrade.

This is THE amp for my Klipsch Forte IV speakers. A perfect match.

Would I say it is the best amp I have in every case - no. The KT150 amp is better with my Dynaudio speakers for example. So system matching is still more important than these other tweaks.