[sdiy] Chineseum Capacitors

[Ben Stuyts]

But none smell as bad as Swedish Rifa caps.

Ben


> On 20 Oct 2020, at 12:01, tpuefke via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
> 
> let's not go there.
> it's a pun alluding to germanium i would have guessed, which is not un-clever.
> i can't see anything xenophobic about that and there's really no need to politicise it.
> there's lots of good and bad things to say about China and manufacturing practices, but i don't think this is the place for that discussion either.
> 
> also, a lot of bad caps actually come from Taiwan, so i have learned. there you go.
> 
> have a good one :)
> Tom
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> On Tuesday, 20. October 2020 11:36, Miles Stevens <milesstevens89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> So in this case, 'Chineseum' means what exactly? Is it a manufacturer?
>> 
>> Just looking for an explaination that isn't quite xenophobic...
>> 
>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 02:31, Jimmy Moore <jamoore84 at gmail.com <mailto:jamoore84 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> CuriousMarc?
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell <https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell>
>> 
>> His channel is awesome.  
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 7:59 AM drheqx <drheqx at gmail.com <mailto:drheqx at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Watched a video of a guy having to change every electrolytic cap in a behringer mixer because they were literally all bad in some way. Now I'm working on a samson 16 channel mixer. Upon opening it I see numerous electrolytic caps that are physically falling apart or with signs of getting ready to pop. 
>> 
>> I really hope that modern synths built by certain companies are not using these substandard caps. I'm now replacing hundreds of xyz caps with Panasonic.
>> 
>> Mike
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