[sdiy] Re: cap id question

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Tony Allgood" <oakley at techrepairs.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: cap id question
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:50:24 -0000

> >Orange Drops sound really good.
> 
> Can somebody tell me why this is so? Do they colour the sound somehow?

If we talk tantalium caps, then the reason is pretty simple - they are
non-linear like hell. I rulled them out of the audio-path many, many
years ago, but now when you bring it up, maybe they are god for some
specific purposes... so yes, they colour the sound.

It is a simple thing to run caps so that they are driven by a sinus
source at some frequency and then one looks at the spectrum and XY
the waveform. Hmm... this sounds like a simple enougth setup to do.

Cheers,
Magnus