Dear
@grannyring : Certainly I'm not anti-audiophile and has not a bias in that direction because I'm an audiophile too.
I'm against not true/faithful " musical " audio items. You can read in my Agon virtual system my main system/audio targets and I'm building a room/system to stay nearer to those audiophile/Music lover targets.
From some years now I use only SS electronics, no tubes any more because tube technology is not faithful to the near field MUSIC live experience.
Tubes are noisy, has higher distortions, low whole resolution and very bad at both frequency extremes. I owned and tested from the Ongaku-On by Audio Note to entry level tube electronics and some old times I was in love with the tube " fake " sound till I learned.
A good SS electronic design is way superior and overall has a very high resolution and accuracy with very low noise and distortions of every kind where you can't hide nothing because any weak ling in the system chain will go out when in the tube electronics the weak links are hidden behind all the tube poor technology.
Take a look about the boutique caps the audiophile normal caps where in electronics are used mainly with tube electronics.
The very first site page in the ODAM V-cap shows the ODAM caps inside a tube electronics and the 90% of the " great " comments came from tube electronics owners. Same with Jupiter or Duelund where tubes natural failure technology cover the true behind those " magic " caps.
Jupiter site:
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Beeswax HT Cryo Capacitors – RoundA classic design utilizing modern materials and knowledge without forgetting original manufacturing techniques. You will get exceptional detail and nuance, and most importantly great tone. "
and most importantly great tone.
IMHO a cap is not a tone device but must be a totally neutral one.
WIMA caps are totally neutral caps that can tell you your electronics or systems failures. Are straigth caps where nothing can hide behing a " glamorous " cap performance and maybe is that charactyeristic of Wima what normally we don't like it because we are not accustomed to that faithful to MUSIC kind of sound.
WIMA caps permit that a good SS designs or speakers can shows it at its best, obviously that exist not so good SS designs and the Wima can tell tus that not so good design.
WIMA caps is a true challenge for any room/audio system, it'0s not only a cap but a true challenge as it's the today digital alternative.
I'm not against tubes, I'm against average/mediocre quality performance levels because I already experienced that kind of levels coming from tubes and from SS too. These first hand experiences improved my discriminating test comparison/evaluations.
Yes, is only my opinion but is shared for other audiophiles that listened my system. No, my system is far away from be perfect. Nothing is perfect and I always am in the quest ofv that " perfection ". I work with facts according my room/system targets and even that I don't listen yet the WIMA in the speaker bass range till today WIMA puts me nearer to those targets.
As I said before I respect a lot your opinion and our disagreements comes by our different ( not so different I think ) targets. I mean not so different because you and me first than all are music lovers that at the end is what really matters.
Our audio hobby is full of fun learning fun.
Today I finished the interconnect both six caps set for the crossovers and I want tomorrow to solder it to the speakers and give at least 24 hours of continuos playing for the WIMA settle down, so maybe this Saturday I can begin with the specific evaluation of the caps in that frequency range.
R.
