I just received Clarity CMR caps that will go into my 2-way Mundorf/ScanSpeak system soon.
ESR was normal, around 0.4 Ohms @1kHz for 10uF.
Caps are now puck shaped, instead of cans. About 12% smaller by volume. They also measure really tightly. Like, within 0.2% of each other and of spec. While the MR versions were also pretty tightly controlled, they were about 1% under marked values on my measurements. Still well within the 3% spec.
Going from 1% to 0.2% of marked value speaks to greatly improved manufacturing tolerances. Refinements like this are not at all easy to make.
I’ll add listening impressions much later.
ESR was normal, around 0.4 Ohms @1kHz for 10uF.
Caps are now puck shaped, instead of cans. About 12% smaller by volume. They also measure really tightly. Like, within 0.2% of each other and of spec. While the MR versions were also pretty tightly controlled, they were about 1% under marked values on my measurements. Still well within the 3% spec.
Going from 1% to 0.2% of marked value speaks to greatly improved manufacturing tolerances. Refinements like this are not at all easy to make.
I’ll add listening impressions much later.