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In Reply to: RE: Elna Silmic II caps?... posted by Tweaker456 on July 01, 2016 at 14:00:09
Well, I'm happy to say burn-in is over, and it now sounds as good as I was hoping for.
Treble clarity is back, openness and image, warmth and purity, yes!
I suspect people who don't like Silmic II didn't burn them in long enough... the change for good happened quite recently (even tho I can't really count how many hours). They really sound like crap for a looooooong time!!!
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K, Thanks for the reply. I myself have never perceived a bad period but I'm not paying attention to just one change and then waiting. The only thing that I see that may be " wrong" is a subdued treble although as I have said before I don't hear the kind of brightness in real live music like can be in many stereo systems. Sizzle and boom seems to be what many like. Also a very quick leading edge, if it were accurate can be a little hard on my old ears. I'm into warmth and comfort these days with a soulful, intimate presentation. The Silmics blow away the Nichicon KZ in this respect, IMHO. Glad they worked out. IMO they are what many people "should" like who want a " tube like" sound. Natural, musical, deep bass, glare free treble,forward mids. What more can one ask for from a sometimes 30 cent cap? Tweaker
Silmic II never get "sharp" or "edgy" or "bright", but they go trough a phase where transients are muted an strangely "muffled" with a lack of air and detail, while midrange gets a somewhat nasal quality. After proper burn-in, transient speed, attack, decay, layering of sound, all comes back, and midrange becomes transparent instead of nasal. My experience on my system anyways ;)
phono preamp I recapped with the Elna Silmic II's. I had the Nichicon KZ in there but even though it sound nice there was just something missing. I then gave the Silmic II's a try and immediately there was more musical presentation with a more quiet background and the music seem to come out from nothing. Then it took that turn to the ugly and I knew it was the break in and it seemed to take forever to clear up.
I know I still don't have 100hrs in music break in time this along with my ART 9 cartridge is still breaking in (25-35 hrs.) but it's sounding better every time I play my Vinyl. My Phono preamp doesn't have an ON/OFF switch so it stays on all the time so that has helped a some with the break in.
Once everything has passed that 150hr. stage then I will now what I have. But so far, it's going in the right direction. This phono preamp with my BAT VK-30 preamp are a great match.
I don't think these caps should be sold short by people reading the negative reviews. They are so inexpensive that they should be tried, IMO. Big game changers as far a I'm concerned. The fav of Nelson Pass. T
This is why I recommended them to you a while back. You also dead on with your comment about the tube sound. They do seem to bring that but this is not a bad thing and this is what I like.
What they don't do is present that sizzle you talked about but the upper end is there just not so dominant like other caps. They also have a deeper soundstage from what I can hear between them and the Nichicon KZ.
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