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In Reply to: RE: Uh oh!!!!!!!!!!!! posted by Barry on June 16, 2016 at 16:57:35
I was only replying to the OP what I had noticed when I had the tuner off for a few months and then again when I had pulled the caps out to try the Nichicon KZ caps. It took it a couple of days to get the sound back to where it was before. It's not a big difference but one I could tell right away. Believe it or not, that's what happened!As for your amp maybe it won't have to go through that.
I have only experienced this with the Black Gate caps. It also happened like that with the Rotel RCD-971 cd player. Which had a quite a few Black gate caps in it.
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I have not really noticed any change in sound when the amp is off for a bit other than the usual changes with warm up. I do find Black Gates a little dark and closed-in sounding until about an hour of use, especially the ones in my tuner.
The worst caps for break-in I've ever experienced have been big values (15uF) of Duelund Cast Copper used in a passive speaker crossover. After 80 hours of listening, I finally gave up and put them on an Audio Dharma Cable Cooker on the 12V / 2 amp circuit for 5 days. That opened them way up! Well worth the wait.
Barry....always good to hear about great results from the Cooking. Quite a few customers have had similar success with a variety of values with the Dueland's....they are beasts with so much dielectric material and mounds of conductors. Thanks for the post.
when off for a while. It might be different for amps as I never tried them in a power amp due to cost.
I use Audyn Copper foil caps in Xovers and are very good. May not be in the Dueland class be very close for a lot less. I may be trying the Jupiter Copper foil caps in my BAT preamp soon, but I am happy with the Jensen copper foil caps that are in there now.
Audio Note has got together with Rubycon and are making caps that are very close if not right there with the Black Gates. They just don't use the graphite that the Black Gates used.
and I would guess the Jensen copper foils would sound very nice.
Good luck with the experiment!
the prices for these NEW Audio Note Electrolytics is way out of my range. I have found some electrolytic caps that do the job for me for a lot less.
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