For months I have been confused. As soon as a 50 year old tube amp pulverized my $10k SS amp and pre I have had to know why?
Where was the 50 years of progress?
Why did a capacitor (Duelund) made of nothing more than copper and paper and natural oils sound wayyyy better than any new tech poly cap I tried?
Why did this vintage amp sound so good after all I have heard some of the most exotic new tube amps? I admit I have only heard the tube amps through speakers running poly caps and as I already found all it takes is one to change sound. One of the speakers was Dynaudio which I heard but do not know for sure use Solen caps. If they do how could any amp sound good through Solen's?
Stereophile admitted to vintage being very good with no "audiophile" parts and NO advertising money coming to the magazine. Why?
I thought the vintage amp had foil caps but I think it is metalised polyester I have been told. (from someone on this thread) Audio Note use Vishay ERO in their Level 1 amps. The very same as the vintage amp?
A quote from Peter on the Audio Note website
"In all our Level One amplifiers, such as the OTO Phono Push Pull, we use the green ERO MKP metalized polyester capacitors, these cheap and cheerful industrial capacitors have been chosen through extensive listening tests against practically every commonly available polypropylene, polycarbonate, polystyrene and polyester capacitor on the market. They are far from perfect, but from a sonic standpoint they are purely detractive, meaning that they lose information rather than add it (which every polypropylene, Teflon etc. capacitor I have ever heard does to excess)".
Is that why the vintage sounds so good? A fluky good cheap capacitor?
Tony Gee seems to like them? Though he thinks they are poly? Audio Note says not?
Where was the 50 years of progress?
Why did a capacitor (Duelund) made of nothing more than copper and paper and natural oils sound wayyyy better than any new tech poly cap I tried?
Why did this vintage amp sound so good after all I have heard some of the most exotic new tube amps? I admit I have only heard the tube amps through speakers running poly caps and as I already found all it takes is one to change sound. One of the speakers was Dynaudio which I heard but do not know for sure use Solen caps. If they do how could any amp sound good through Solen's?
Stereophile admitted to vintage being very good with no "audiophile" parts and NO advertising money coming to the magazine. Why?
I thought the vintage amp had foil caps but I think it is metalised polyester I have been told. (from someone on this thread) Audio Note use Vishay ERO in their Level 1 amps. The very same as the vintage amp?
A quote from Peter on the Audio Note website
"In all our Level One amplifiers, such as the OTO Phono Push Pull, we use the green ERO MKP metalized polyester capacitors, these cheap and cheerful industrial capacitors have been chosen through extensive listening tests against practically every commonly available polypropylene, polycarbonate, polystyrene and polyester capacitor on the market. They are far from perfect, but from a sonic standpoint they are purely detractive, meaning that they lose information rather than add it (which every polypropylene, Teflon etc. capacitor I have ever heard does to excess)".
Is that why the vintage sounds so good? A fluky good cheap capacitor?
Tony Gee seems to like them? Though he thinks they are poly? Audio Note says not?