[sdiy] deprogramming needed from audio-DIY

[anthony]

> Feel the Force, dude.
>
> It's even more obvious on the Peter Belt site, where he describes how 
> clipping his special magic croc clips to his *central heating pump* 
> improved the sound of his hifi.

> Richard

I do believe stereo equipment can be improved by judicious addition of some 
nice caps here and there, but they're still affordable. Like I have some 
10000pF (and sundry values in between) silver mica caps that are good in 
this regard. Of all the things I've saved over the years, my silver micas 
are the most valuable I think. I'm sure I have a few teflon or polystyrene 
caps that have gone unidentified though. Anyone know if "Precision 
Capacitor" made those kinds? It's hard to Google them. Some caps just have 
an aura of better quality, like Illinois and Rubycons (but all of mine are 
old junk that I should throw away). Actually my Rubycon oil caps (which 
aren't electrolytic) are probably better than my silver micas.
I was looking at Inifinicaps web site - that's what got me going about caps. 
And you just can't go on about resistors in the same way. But I just look at 
expensive stuff like that and say hmmm I'll bet that HV oil cap from the 
microwave would work just as well.