OT Audiophiles, was:[sdiy] Digital filtering (Oversampling and downsampling)

[Graham Atkins]

Ingo,

I've seen similar caps also having "hand soldered leads".......Again,  
why would that make them
superior ? The only thing I can think of is that being "hand made"  
means they are watched at every
stage of the process, but what percentage of machine produced caps  
fail ?.

Graham

On 5 Aug 2009, at 16:57, Ingo Debus wrote:

>
> Am 04.08.2009 um 19:26 schrieb Rainer Buchty:
>
>> I got the impression that the traditional audiophile (i.e. the one  
>> who was obsessed with amps and speakers, not those whackos who  
>> spray their machinery with C37 lacquer or buy "oxygen-free" copper  
>> wires woven by virgin elves during full moon before being "burned- 
>> in" in "direction of flow") long died out...
>
> <http://uk.farnell.com/ampohm-wound-products/pf-xal-al-10-0-5-630/audio-capacitor-10uf-630v/dp/1636718 
> >
>
> Someone has to buy that stuff, otherwise Farnell wouldn't sell it.
>
> Who in their right mind believes that capacitors are superior  
> because they are "hand wound"??
>
> Ingo
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