Capacitor pricing
Best bang for buck Solen one of the big majors in capacitor manufacturing. And the word is a few very expensive "boutique" branded caps are the same just re-badged. Pick which one you can afford. http://solen.ca/product-category/capacitors/ Cheers George |
@georgelofi Solen = SCR = Axon. Axon is essentially the middle of the road Solen for half price. Focal and others do seem to source their caps from them. However, I would only use an Axon as a bypass. The middle to low end Solen’s are, to my ears, easily outclassed by the low end Mundorf’s and Clarity caps. I’ve heard good things about the latest high end Solen’s but I really don’t wish to play around with them. Your mileage and ears may vary. Now other brands, who knows. Winding machines are expensive, so if you can get cheap caps with your brand on them and get someone to put out a few positive reviews for you then you may indeed make a few bucks. Now, what's absoultely best is if you can find a capacitor brand that costs $1/cap or less and sounds best to you. I hope you find that for yourself. Best, Erik |
Here's something for all to ponder over. Just for my own interest and those here who are interested, I viewed all the dimention specs of one of the expensive "boutique" favourites against the same from Solen, both in "metallized polypropylene capacitor 400v" versions. And in every instance for 20 different value the same uF 1:The cap body length = exactly the same! 2:The lead lengths = exactly the same! 3:The body diameter was always 1mm more on the "boutique" "maybe re-badged" favourite, what would cause this? I'll leave that to everyone's imagination. Cheers George |
The upper level Solen are solidly good capacitors however there are better. My amplifier uses Solens as first stage coupling capacitors and I replaced them with Jupiter copper foils for a noticeable improvement (not night and day). My speakers have Duelund CAST copper foil caps that replaced the Solen at the tweeter, a "very " noticeable improvement. Money well spent IMO. To be clear, the sound was quite good with the stock Solen but superior capacitors will make a positive contribution. Charles |
To all I was just making an observations and assumed everything was within a percent or two to see a $40 difference per capacitor is lot . Parts connecxion runs 20% sales on capacitors off and on ,as well as other things . Just compare between all like Madasound , Sonicraft, Michael Percy audio and other lie Hifi collective in the U.K sometimes less money and reasonable shipping one pet peave if you list it ,it should show how many in stock. Such as a Hifi collective does. |
