[sdiy] cap question

[Scott Nordlund]

> It could be that there is no perceptible difference with a single component
> change, but if you gradually replace every component in the circuit with a
> less noisy/leaky/inductive modern equivalent, it will lose its mojo.

I think that's the general difficulty with this sort of thing, "vintage" sound and whatnot.  Stuff gets designed according to ideal approximations, by necessity.  If a "better", more ideal circuit sounds less interesting, it doesn't mean that a more arbitrarily imperfect circuit will necessarily sound superior, or that it's a credit to the tremendous insight of the original designer (who probably would have preferred higher performance/better specs in the first place).  It seems to me that the most important factor is dumb luck, guided by careful listening.

Of course that undermines a certain appealing mythology of it...

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