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Psvane Teflon capacitors real or fakes?

These are great looking capacitors and supposed to be competing against the Audience, Rel, V-Cap, and Sonicap Teflon capacitors. A couple of my tweaky friends who have no end to new capacitors gave them a try and had one quit after a month or so, and with the wire cut off, no return possible. So they cut it open, yes they are curious, and according to them, the guts looked like mylar, measured like mylar??? Could these not be Teflon caps after all??? I open this for discussion with some of the tweaky electonic minds out there to get to the bottom of this. If they are not genuine teflon, I would not want fellow audiophiles to get ripped by another false claim. But to be fair, real verifiable data should be submitted here, no guesswork. I trust my friends, but I did not do the test, so I open it to other philes. Hey, I like a great deal too, but if it is not as advertised, I get pissed too. Take a look fellow philes, and lets solve the mystery....Jallen
jallen
audiofeil
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What's needed here is a bunker buster to get Rachel and GF out of hiding.

I'd like to hear more from them.

Hello in there...................
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jtwrace
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What exactly do you want to hear from them?
audiofeil
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Ummmmm......the truth?

Although I'll settle for a woo hoo or amen.

:-)
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jtwrace
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Oh. I thought "chrisvh" posted the truth above on 2/1/12

Also this post on AC which is located here:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=54218.msg1047092#msg1047092

Have a closer look, Scotty. Here are some search results for the topic in question: http://goo.gl/9ZvYa. Simply click on the "cached" link, to view each page, which is a few days older. They just changed the descriptions, after this minor little translation oversight was uncovered.

I’d made numerous e-mail requests to both Grant and Psvane (since September of 2011) to stop using the V-Cap trademark CuTF. Grant did acknowledge, and took down from their site (although forum posts still remain). Psvane didn’t remove until a few days ago, around the time they posted their official "Mylar" response at Audiogon: http://goo.gl/fhJtX

Perhaps Psvane would have felt differently about trademark use if a competitor borrowed the term “Treasure” to market its own tube line – and this competitor purported to use similar materials to Psvane’s line of tubes. Can’t help but wonder if Psvane would consider this an attempt to "copy", or at the very least an attempt to dilute their brand, as well as unfairly harvest search engine queries for Psvane's product trademark? As many know, there is little hope for trademark protection enforcement with Chinese companies- especially when you're a smaller operation, with little budget to go after large companies. Audiophiles, as a group, are a smart bunch – they can come to their own conclusions on what’s really happened here: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/vendors-bazaar/194521-psvane-teflon-film-copper-foil-caps-600v-rating-starting-99-pair.html

BTW- I had responded to the Audiogon thread Wednesday morning, but it would appear the moderators didn’t feel appropriate to post. Update: Audiogon did finally post my response early this morning (2-3-2012).
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