Upsizing Capacitors


Gents, what kind of best practices do you have on upsizing capacitors? Capacitance, voltage - sometimes where necessary due to availability, but also which ones do you normally try to upsize if you had the choice?

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I would not change to higher capacitance and temperature, voltage maybe after looking the service manual. 

 

Why not? Some devices definitely have under temperature rating caps, particularly within a rack or under another component or heavy load or 24/7 operation.

105°C caps have 4x the life at rated temperature vs 85°C.

Modern caps pack more C in the same space, so increasing C and T while reducing ESR is a Win-Win-Win.

 

It depends where you are referring to . IHave been into  Loudspeaker mods for years ,and without question are upgrades in Sonic performance ,with Capacitors Resistors sometimes inductors, wiring, connectors.   For the vast majority of Loudspeakers use cheaper parts quality ,why cost. 
this is true also in electronics , types ,electrolytic in power supplies ,which should v be bypassed with a  decent quality .1uf  poly cap it smooths the upper frequency noise ,and quality here too very important like using a Elma Silmic cap much smoother ,or top Nichicon caps , even Clarity,or Mundorf 4 pole caps .

for coupling caps where a good poly cap, or top Copperfoil like World class Duelund ,which BTW I have been using for years I just exchanged the very hood Jupiter copper foil for the much better and muchBigger DuelundTinned Copper foil paper oil in my preamps output section , they take many hours to settle in but well worththe efforts.