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Mundorf Silver Caps

Need some personal testimonies from mods employing Mundorf top line caps, Supremes, Silver OIl. 
I just had 8 M SGO caps installed in my cayin CD17 Mark1 and have found excellent results., In spite of the many critics who suggested <waste of money>>
There is a  YT vid froma  japenese tech who can not find any superior testing froma   more expensive cap, and has doubts to the value of modding with new caps,...Yet there is another YT tech who employs M caps and has the units up for a  sound test.
I can actually hear the superior mod with new M caps through my $10 computer speakers ,,in fact i hear a  HUGE sonic gain.
I have plans to mod a  new tube preamp i plan to add later this year and have my Defy7 recaed with M SGO caps. + My Speakers xovers with new M SGO caps.
I am sure jadis uses high quality caps, but high quality is not M caps. 
I bet any money Jadis employs aluminum caps, whereas M caps are silver.

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mahlman
433 posts
 
I use a B&K 885 inductance and capacitance meter to measure components as I go. Personally I just use Dayton 1% precision or Audyn's (not the expensive ones) and sometimes Sonicaps because they have values I need. If they measure the same I figure they sound the same and save my money. The few times I did try expensive caps I regretted doing so and felt that money would have been better spent elsewhere.
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mofimadness
5,051 posts
 
When I upgraded/modified/updated  the interfaces on my Acoustat 2+2's, I used the Mundorf EVO Alum+Oil caps.  WOW!
erik_squires
16,389 posts
 
Um, happy to see all the Mundorf fandom, but I'm going to take a contrarian view.

I've always found the Mundorf Supreme's over saturated with color. Not sibilant, but cool, and colorful.

I prefer Clarity CMR for these reasons. I find them less euphonic and more natural, in the sense of sounding more like what I hear in person.

With all things, buy what you like. I only make my personal observatiopns here.

B&W, Magico and YG however don't agree with me. :)
mahlman
433 posts
 
" I've always found the Mundorf Supreme's over saturated with color. Not sibilant, but cool, and colorful.

I prefer Clarity CMR for these reasons. I find them less euphonic and more natural, in the sense of sounding more like what I hear in person. "
  I agree completely. I find the fancy caps really are flavoring music to someones preference and they are not neutral. Kind of like tube amps sound warm compared to ss amps used in performance by various artists in real life.
 Using something like a Xilica DSP and bi-amping will allow you to duplicate any tone you want and then change it later if you wish in any way you can imagine. I recap old crossovers on speakers I am refurbing for sale but my personal system is 100% active now. I see some of these people spend thousands on caps which work for one set of speakers only. The same money would buy amps and the Xilica and work with any system.
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