Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer

Yes - i totally agree with that! No reason to change something if they are known 'good' components - esp. with caps - I think there's a lot of people who misunderstand caps (for instance the arp omni owners who swap out the tantalums for electrolytics in the keying circuit because they think tants are somehow 'bad' or 'old technology' - when in fact they are just sensitive to voltage spikes - the problem is really in the power supply - but i digress!) - NOOOOOO i would never do such a thing (measuring resistors in circuit and making a judgement from that) - but my board is chock full of brand new cheapo chines resistors (all metal film half watt) - Yes - i know what you'll say- but honestly I did a lot of testing on them before deciding to use them - they tested much better than all my existing metal film caps from 'reputable' sources - so I thought 'why not' but in light of my problems I'm starting to second guess everything... the resistors were, of course, tested 'out of circuit' - and weirdly - they seem to have a 'parasitic' capacitance that is quite HIGH. around 0.4µF... VERY different from my other resistors... I am not sure how to interpret it - but if my meter sees them very differently to the reference resistors - then it stands to reason that the circuit may also...