Quote:Oh! Thanks Will for your great interpretations of sonic differences in capacitors.
You are welcome John. Mind you, I have not gone all the way up the cost ladders with some companies, or even tried some of the more costly companies. Luckily, I find you can get the good idea of a cap with bypasses, so less costly to test, and low value caps can awaken further interest (or not) in most cases for me. As examples, I stopped at Mundorf Supreme Silver/oils, Silver Gold EVOs, and Supreme EVO Oils, Clarity MAs, Rike S2, Audyn True Copper max...Duelund I have tried Jam, Tinned-Copper and Silver bypasses, and just now burning in on my Frybaby 2 are less costly .022 JDM Tinned-Copper that I will try in the Torii signal path. Overall, using a revealing, but warmish, dense, and big sounding Torii MKIV, CSP3, and HR1 system, I have not been as impressed with Duelund as I expected. They do
a lot right, but when it is as powerfully stated as these tend to be, to me, they dominate the sound with their character, which is so worked out intellectually they seem a little contrived...too right, not like a "no cap" sense I get more from Miflex Copper Oils. But this is a limited sampling, mostly using them in signal paths...and I hear from a friend with good ears that they are great in mid crossovers, where I have done limited experiments with Duelunds. Some day. Guessing they might be much better in systems that need more density and musically resolving warmth. Others on the Frybaby just now are Jantzen Alumin Zs, and Arizona Cactus Reds. I have not tried any V-Caps, though I keep putting some .01 Odams in my cart to try as coupling caps and probably power cap bypasses. There are more... but I wanted to be clear that when I talk about my cap impressions, they are not based on all-inclusive testing.