Dave

You are right on Hurdy. Different capacitors really do sound different. Glad to hear about your tweeks. Keep up the good work.
Resistors also change the sound, but I am not sure if the sound changes as much as with capacitors.

Take care.
Steve

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Steve

Yes it does, which is rare. Another article worth reading is "picking capacitors" by Walter Jung. Pretty interesting, but doesn't cover oil caps.
I have another article, somewhere around in print form, about dielectric materials, a chemist's viewpoint, but doesn't do any actual measurements. Might be able to find it on the net.

Take care and great week.
Steve

Since amps which measure in a way which can only be described using the word, "crappy" seem to be both highly regarded and pleasing to the ear, I assume that the wrong stuff is being measured.

More testing, and some large group linstening panel might be able to gather some of the measured quantities with the sonic impressions. That would be nice to have.
regards,
Douglas

Trouble with the listening panel is, the cap will always be evaluated in a circuit in concert with a bunch of other parts, which in turn is in a system with a bunch of other components, which in turn is in a room . . . . .

I'd still like to see it happen, but you have to keep the context in mind. We can't expect to draw universally applicable conclusions from the lab coat boys or the subjective descriptions of the pipe-smoking auditioners . . . (I always loved the artwork at the top of Herb Reichert's Sound Practices column.)

I guess the message is: context and perspective are key. But you knew that already . . . .

http://www.capacitors.com/picking_capacitors/pickcap.htm

Dave

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