Capacitor


Dear friends I am interested to upgrade my caps in the tube preamp from Audio theta tin foil 3uf200VDC to Miflex1uf 240VDC copper foil what are your thoughts will reducing the value to 1uf affect the bass and frequency response or should I go with a higher value than 3uf  
jasbirnandra
Raul, I’m sorry. I’m having trouble tracking your points. Sounds like you tried other caps, liked them, and later found them to add too much color. So, you went to or back to a good quality Wima cap. 
I don’t hear material colorations with VCap or ClarityCap. What I hear is better spatialization, clearer pictures, and bigger more defined images. 
One of my favorite records is Lou Rawls and Les McAnn, They Call it Stormy Monday. I’ve listened to it at least hundreds of times. With Vcaps in the signal chain I can hear Rawls move his mouth in different directions while singing into the microphone. It was so spooky on discovery as it made me hear deeper into the recording and gave a stronger sense of realism across the experience.

@jbhiller ,
Lou Rawls and Les McCann? Good taste my friend 😊.
I believe that the vast majority understand and can relate to your upgrading capacitor experiences . I’ll leave it at that. 
Charles
I too hear R as complaining about flavor of boutique caps. When I stated meh as my judgement of wima caps, what I heard was what I'd describe as electronic sounding, clean and clear, but not engaging.  I suppose I could say lacking in flavor, it had no definable character. Perhaps that's what some may judge as best cap.
They also sound flat and 2D which is an electronic artifact, not the sound intended on many good recordings. 
45 hours in and wow! Wow!

My sub is going into the trash. My sub filter was set at 30 Hz so the sub would fill only the range where my single driver BLHs could not go. But now it seems they have decided to drop down into the 20’s. I cannot believe what I am hearing.

My sub is officially unemployed. Anybody interested in a gently used Marchand XM66? 

@grannyring

Good call on the ODAMs. I know you said they need at least 80 hours but they are beginning to shine now. I cannot imagine how it can sound better, but I guess I will by tomorrow evening.

Next on the menu will be the cathode resistor bypass caps 😀