BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS.

Dear @imhififan   : My speakers are heavely up-graded but are old ones by ADS and the original caps, resistors and inductors if I remember has no " name " builder or maybe yes but I can't remember for sure.

I have first hand experiences with Duelund, Mundorf, Sonicaps, V-caps, Mit, Jantzen and other caps. All of them with really high prices per piece.

Wima is the standard not only in the audio industry but in almost any industry market segment.

Open any amplifier or preamp and you will see full of Wima caps down there. Should be because exist proved reasons to use those Wima caps.

Last week I decided to test Wima though my tweeters due that I have many wima caps that I changed in the past in system electronics, not the ones I own today.

I changed in the tweeter crossovers instead the Jantzen Alumen Z and even that I'm still making the evaluation I can attest in the tested time that I'm totally surprised with the MKP 10.
Where the Alumen Z are " neutral " the MKP 10 are true neutral and colorless/signatureless other than the MUSIC intrinsec color and yesd I heard and I'm hearing differences: important ones.

I was not prepared for what I'm listening rigth now because you pay " penauts " for a Wima caps against big dollars for the boutique caps that can't honor that colorless because all those heavy priced caps unfortunatelly adds " colorations/distortions ".

Till now the Wima in my system and through the tweeter and band-pass ( midrange.tweeter. ) crossover filters works great and at higher quality levels that the " other " caps or any thing I listened before in my system and in other systems.

Examples: around the middle of number two track in the original soundtrack of Gladiator you can listen the sound between swords when one hit the other.
Well in the Jantzen sounds really good but through the Wima you stay with out words to explain it: just outstanding if you consider that the Alumen Z are really good quality performers. Outstanding because the sound is not only precise but truer sound with a rigthness dificult to explain it and dificult to beats it.

In the Lyn Stanley Potions recording and in the very first track in the first minute ( at the end of that first minute. )  that started the track we can listen a very delicated high frequency strokes in a triangle, very delicated and with the Wima exist a very high definition with a precense so vivid ( not organic. ) that you can't be in other way but impressed for it.

Other " moments " are in the Telarc 1812 Overture where around 30 seconds before the first 5 cannon shots you can listen in the " long distance " the sound of a tambourine with perfect purity and after those shots comes the carillon sound that any one of you will die for till you listen to with Wima caps.

That's why I decided to bought the caps for my woofers and midranges. I will go " slowly " step by step to can be totally sure on the whole wima caps subject.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

@rauliruegas

Glad you found the perfect capacitors for your speaker crossover.

Regards and enjoy the music!

Breaking in a cap is not really on my fun list. I have alumen z/CMR in crossover, you prefer the cheap Wilma? Looked them up they are pretty cheap. How long was break in? Sometimes the new sonics can become wrong after newness wears off. 

Hmm... Perhaps I'll give a pair a try in my crossover too. Easy to do for $10. 

Dear @imhififan : My take rigth now and with out tested in the midrange/woofer filters is that seems to me could exist no reasons to use Wima in any tweeters speakers. As I said and every one knows for many years Wima is a true standard in the whole industry regarding use of capacitors.

The examples I posted at least two of them are way demanding for any room/system ( Gladiator/1812 ) is a really true test overall at all the frequency range and especially at the SPL I listened those two recordings: 95db-97db at seat position with peaks around 105db-107db.

Yesyerday I Listened at the same SPLs these recordings:

Dire Straits Love over Gold and I never heard in any system Mark Knopfler guitar so " rigth " with not strident ( for that SPL. ) but with the normal agresiveness live MUSIC sound has.
Botn " parts " in the Telegraph Road track where outstanding as was too both " parts " on Private Investigations.

We have to remember that even that the Wima are only in the tweeters midrange harmonics are reproduced down there.

I listend too:

Self Control by Laura Branigan and I was really surprised by the rythm that today has my room/system.

Same happened with the original ( long version. ) soundtrack of Cat People where in the track Putting out Fire Bowie really shines but the rythm is just impressive. Music on this recording came from G.Moroder.

Finally: Fun Fun ( two girls voices. ) Color my love with same results.

These 3 last recordings are way demanding for any system room.

What I listened never losted " figure " everything rigth on " place " with very good instrument separation and at the same time fully integrated in between.
The girls chorus in the Bowie recording track now has definiton and are vivid as never before where I was listened but " nothing more ".

Something that I took in count during all my tests evaluations ( I’m still testing it. ) is that voices sibilant almost disappears in all recordings with female and male voices.

Yes, it’s a huge discovery for me. Testing doing things and thinking out of the box is from where I learned. I never say NO, I try and if I don’t like it the change I did it the return to its before status.

I forgot, in the past when testing at that SPLs always left a ears sensations thattook several minutes to disappears and this time that almost not happens. Rigth now my " hat off " for Wima.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.