[sdiy] Orange Drop Capacitors?

[Barry Klein]

I have always wondered if anyone has ever tried taking this theory of the 
caps "sound better" and running
with it by increasing the number of them in series or parallel and listening 
compared to a DC-coupled circuit....
Seems simple and recordable...?  Instrumentation can then follow to discover 
what sounds "good" or "bad".
Also some may depend on a DC bias being present to begin with...

Barry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "thx1138" <thx1138 at earthlink.net>
To: "Tom Wiltshire" <tom at electricdruid.net>; "Ian Smith" 
<taciturn_unquiet at hotmail.com>
Cc: "synth diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Orange Drop Capacitors?


> On 12/30/09 2:15 AM, "Tom Wiltshire" <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:
>
>> I think it's because..
>>
>> THEY LOOK COOL!
>>
>> T.
>>
>> On 30 Dec 2009, at 00:41, Ian Smith wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> What's the deal with orange drop capacitors? They're everywhere in
>>> "vintage" audio stuff and there's all sorts of talk about them
>>> making things sound better and having better tone, but nothing on why.
>>>
>>> Can you guys help me out?
>>>
>>> -Ian
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> Well it is sort of like the Monster cable effect.
>
> If I spend $100 for an interconnect cable, it has to sound better.
>
> I use lamp cord for my speaker set up in the lab vs Monster Cable and
> measured it on my Audio Precision and found no real difference.
>
> By the way, I measure cable by wife acceptance factor and find that they
> prefer no cables.
>
> I have had Tom Holman come over several times for the holidays and he 
> never
> noticed that I was using cheap audio cables. But usually thinks my EQ 
> could
> use a small amount of tweaking.
>
> Perhaps I should run this question of caps and cables past him as well.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Terry
>
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