[sdiy] Orange Drop Capacitors?

[thx1138]

On 1/2/10 5:05 PM, "Nathan M. Reeves" <djservs at comcast.net> wrote:

> WHo is Tom Holman?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nate ( doesn't want to do a google search) Reeves
> 
> 
> On Dec 30, 2009, at 12:21 PM, thx1138 wrote:
> 
>> 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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Hi SDIY and Nathan,

Tom or Tomlinson Holman was the inventor of THX at LucasFilm Ltd. In Nicasio
California.

Tom and I worked on the first THX + ProLogic design at Lucasfilm many years
back. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX

Our ears are tuned to listen for anomalies and issues in the recording of
multi-channel audio.

Tom and I have been getting together on many projects since for the pursuit
of 10.2 channel audio.

Let me know if you need any other reference material to play with.

Regards,

Terry Shultz