Eric
Are you talking about boutique caps?
In the the beginning of this thread when purchasing Mundorf Supreme caps and Duelund VSF I went in with the mindset I had just thrown my money away. I could not believe the difference!
Then bought what was new at the time CAST caps for the tweeters. I was sure I would not hear the difference from already pricey VSF caps (people even said so at that level one can not tell difference) and when I hooked them up I thought I wired up something incorrect! Sooooo much less noise.
i just got back a Fisher 500c from my repair guy who is a great guy and does great work. Spent many hundreds on it and it sounds bad!
All run of the mill caps, electrolytics and resistors. Everything is "working" perfect.
He has a pair of Duelund VSF caps in the shop that are shot... He put them on the machine to show me. Obviously not impressed.
So he has a bias against boutique caps and their "value". I did say those were speaker caps that he pulled out of an amp and were NOT for electronics. (100v caps)
He likely pulled $400 worth of caps that were not working and replaced with <$20 that work fine.
So we all get where he is coming from.
He has also saw 1 or 2 of my Duelund caps leak oil. A Jensen Copper paper tube arc inside and a few leads fall off my Jupiter Copper Foil caps and both Ampohm caps leak.
So is he wrong to have a dim view of boutique caps?
He can of course not deal with this for repairs.
So what is value to him? Or any repair technician?
value to me?
Since The same guy has fixed up all three Fishers I have which is a run of the mill parts Fisher 500c vs. Hotrod Fisher's I will be testing and retesting the "value" of around $1k per amp in caps.
So far for tone and dynamics it's lights out great value to me!
Are you talking about boutique caps?
In the the beginning of this thread when purchasing Mundorf Supreme caps and Duelund VSF I went in with the mindset I had just thrown my money away. I could not believe the difference!
Then bought what was new at the time CAST caps for the tweeters. I was sure I would not hear the difference from already pricey VSF caps (people even said so at that level one can not tell difference) and when I hooked them up I thought I wired up something incorrect! Sooooo much less noise.
i just got back a Fisher 500c from my repair guy who is a great guy and does great work. Spent many hundreds on it and it sounds bad!
All run of the mill caps, electrolytics and resistors. Everything is "working" perfect.
He has a pair of Duelund VSF caps in the shop that are shot... He put them on the machine to show me. Obviously not impressed.
So he has a bias against boutique caps and their "value". I did say those were speaker caps that he pulled out of an amp and were NOT for electronics. (100v caps)
He likely pulled $400 worth of caps that were not working and replaced with <$20 that work fine.
So we all get where he is coming from.
He has also saw 1 or 2 of my Duelund caps leak oil. A Jensen Copper paper tube arc inside and a few leads fall off my Jupiter Copper Foil caps and both Ampohm caps leak.
So is he wrong to have a dim view of boutique caps?
He can of course not deal with this for repairs.
So what is value to him? Or any repair technician?
value to me?
Since The same guy has fixed up all three Fishers I have which is a run of the mill parts Fisher 500c vs. Hotrod Fisher's I will be testing and retesting the "value" of around $1k per amp in caps.
So far for tone and dynamics it's lights out great value to me!