Jupiter Caps in tube preamp application
Btw, Tidal 250K speakers uses boutique caps as tone control using at each speaker crossover a blend of five different caps: https://www.tidal-audio.com/technology-crossover/ https://www.tidal-audio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/x-over.jpg @millercarbon , got it? R. |
Dear @jimbones : For years I was using caps as Duelund, Mundorf, Jantzen, V-caps, Sonicraft and the like suddenly I made a " crazy " change and a few months ago I " discovery " that WIMA caps are the true path to go. It's a non-audiophile cap but it's the any kind industry ( just name it.. ) proved and real Standard and for very good reasons No snake oil with Wima. One month ago , between other before changes, I pull the triger for an extremely critical caps change. Things are that for years the high-pass filter in my bi-amp system I did/do it through the Levinson monoblocks input cap. This cap is not a by-pass cap but the Levinson input coupling cap where all the frequency ranges goes throuth it, as I said really critical system cap. Well I was using there a V-cap Teflon Cu ( 100.00 each one. ) and I changed for the FKP-1 Wima cap and this really humble cap outperformed the V-cap with an unexpected easy. When you can take it a time you can buy ( 2.00 each cap. ) the original 0.01uf Wima FKP 1 and you can test it and see what happens down there, of course that you can buy too ( are so inexpensive. ) the 0.022uf ones. Don't be " intimidated " by the ridiculous non-audiophile Wima caps, just try it and decide after that. You can lost nothing and can achieve some rewards and at the end is something to learn and " fun " to do it. Btw, no colorations/nice distortions through Wima, only the signal with no added " colorations " you can detect: https://www.mouser.com/WIMA/Passive-Components/Capacitors/Film-Capacitors/FKP-1-Series/_/N-9x371?P=1z0zldhZ1yzojejZ1z0wpzo In my speakers crossover I use the MKP-10 Wima model. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
@rauliruegas Will do. BTW I have been thinking about your previous posts regarding accuracy. what is "accuracy" anyway? How can you be sure that once component is more accurate over another. I know I am not qualified to make that judgement. I DO know what I like. So if something has an irritating edge and sounds hard that is more accurate because thats what music sounds like? I am not sure i agree. I stopped chasing accurate years ago. If something sounds like crap, I don't care how accurate it is, I don't like it. I think that most higher end audio equipment is good and is a matter of taste. Compare two $10K DAC's, both are most likely very good, but you will have a preference. And that is OK because you should. I think audio equipment has come a long way and there is a lot of good stuff out there to enjoy. No Stress. |
