<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">But none smell as bad as Swedish Rifa caps.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ben</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Oct 2020, at 12:01, tpuefke via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">let's not go there.<br class=""></div><div class="">it's a pun alluding to germanium i would have guessed, which is not un-clever.<br class=""></div><div class="">i can't see anything xenophobic about that and there's really no need to politicise it.<br class=""></div><div class="">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.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">also, a lot of bad caps actually come from Taiwan, so i have learned. there you go.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">have a good one :)<br class=""></div><div class="">Tom<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br class=""></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton">Sent with <a href="https://protonmail.com/" target="_blank" class="">ProtonMail</a> Secure Email.<br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br class=""></div><div class=""> On Tuesday, 20. October 2020 11:36, Miles Stevens <<a href="mailto:milesstevens89@gmail.com" class="">milesstevens89@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">So in this case, 'Chineseum' means what exactly? Is it a manufacturer?<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just looking for an explaination that isn't quite xenophobic...<br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 02:31, Jimmy Moore <<a href="mailto:jamoore84@gmail.com" class="">jamoore84@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">CuriousMarc?<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell" target="_blank" class="">https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">His channel is awesome. <br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 7:59 AM drheqx <<a href="mailto:drheqx@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">drheqx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">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. <br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I really hope that modern synths built by certain companies are not using these substandard caps. 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