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I've bought these PIO caps from Angela Instruments many times, and sometimes they'd say Angela, sometimes Audio Note, and sometimes Jensen. Angela's owner, Steve Melkesethian, verified that they are all identical save for the superficial exterior markings. What they sold was whatever stock Jensen had on hand and sent them at the time they ordered them.

So why did I mention this? In the hope that one it'll keep one of my fellow DIY tube nuts from getting burned! Audio Note branded caps sell for about twice the price of Jensen branded caps from most Internet dealers. You pay twice as much for .001 cent of lettering ink!

Thermionic

-akhilesh"

Certainly! Unbiased listening tests among a random sampling of conceited, golden-eared audio snobs confirmed that the Audio Note caps beat the Jensens hands down. Independent laboratory testing has also proven that the shape and form of the Audio Note logo printed on the cap is 233% more effective at focusing supernatural interstellar cosmic audio karma into the cap than the Jensen logo.

Thermionic

Skepticism is healthy; cynicism is not. Fact checking is always good.

>Posted by Peter Qvortrup, Audio Note UK Ltd. on January 01, 2001 at 03:52:15:
>In Reply to: Re: Cap answer: Audio Note vs Jensen copper foil paper in oil posted by
>mobile homeless on December 07, 2000 at 00:20:47:

>Dear Kelly,
>Sorry only saw your post today during my routine scan.

>I think it is worthwhile to note that the Jensen paper in oil caps were a development
>between myself and Tobias Jensens old designer, we spent two years making caps from
>different materials, various winding techniques and connections, this lead to the caps
>you have, which I believe are copper foils.

>Jensen is an industrial capacitor manufacturer, they never made caps for audio signals
>before they started working with me.

>Just so you know.

>I hope your New Years celebrations passed as well as mine!

>Yours Sincerely,
>Peter Qvortrup

Also, FYI - Steve at Angela Instruments last purchased PIO caps from Audio Note in 1996, so this is really a very out-of-date observation, unless he still has some 9+ year old caps to sell, in which case, the comments would apply to those caps only, not any of the Audio Note caps being sold anywhere else here in the 21st century.

In my AC heater 45 SET I love the Jupiter caps, might be the best of the bunch but I never bothered to swap them out to compare, I just like it the way it is.