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In Reply to: Comments about AC caps from The Great Capacitor Shootout (5.6-10uf) posted by Tweaker456 on May 21, 2017 at 22:00:54:
With all due respect and no intention to insult you, Tweaker, I frequently read testimonials such as yours, describing major improvements due to what appear to be small tweaks. (Safety is not under discussion here, only hyperbole.) When I read these posts, it always makes me wonder what the sound was like before installation of the tweak. The impression I get in this case is that the sound was pretty bad: "grainy", lacking in a sense of depth (the opposite of "deep"), and shrill (the opposite of "less glare"). I am prepared to believe one can hear a positive result from these small tweaks, but not complete transformation of the sound of an entire audio system from what must have been very unsatisfactory to Nirvana. In fact, your example of placing filter capacitors across the AC line probably does help globally, if the AC was badly contaminated with noise to begin with, as it might be in an apartment building, for example. Some of the other lesser tweaks to which such miracles are ascribed really don't seem likely to please one to the level of ecstasy sometimes claimed, such as the difference between one expensive AC outlet and another or one expensive fuse and another. I think we need to keep in mind the very strong factor of listener bias in evaluating tweaks or any other change to an audio system. We're all subject to it.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Comments about AC caps from The Great Capacitor Shootout (5.6-10uf) - Lew 08:05:29 05/22/17 (17)
- More hyperbolicness for Lew - Tweaker456 12:21:48 05/26/17 (13)
- I did not accuse you of being hyperbolic in your love of capacitance - Lew 07:07:22 05/30/17 (12)
- RE: I did not accuse you of being hyperbolic in your love of capacitance - Tweaker456 20:14:19 06/08/17 (11)
- Of course, I am in no position to say that more capacitance does not sound better - Lew 18:55:36 06/10/17 (2)
- RE: Of course, I am in no position to say that more capacitance does not sound better - Tweaker456 09:27:18 06/11/17 (1)
- I've avoided taking a hostile approach to your pig-headedness - Lew 10:14:05 06/11/17 (0)
- RE: I did not accuse you of being hyperbolic in your love of capacitance - pixelphoto 11:29:38 06/09/17 (7)
- RE: I did not accuse you of being hyperbolic in your love of capacitance - Tweaker456 13:14:42 06/09/17 (6)
- RE: I did not accuse you of being hyperbolic in your love of capacitance - beautox 15:57:51 06/09/17 (5)
- RE: I did not accuse you of being hyperbolic in your love of capacitance - Tweaker456 09:08:21 06/11/17 (4)
- RE: I did not accuse you of being hyperbolic in your love of capacitance - beautox 15:01:42 06/11/17 (3)
- RE: I did not accuse you of being hyperbolic in your love of capacitance - Tweaker456 15:24:07 06/11/17 (2)
- RE: I did not accuse you of being hyperbolic in your love of capacitance - beautox 15:27:29 06/11/17 (1)
- RE: I did not accuse you of being hyperbolic in your love of capacitance - Tweaker456 16:27:37 06/11/17 (0)
- RE: Comments about AC caps from The Great Capacitor Shootout (5.6-10uf) - Tweaker456 10:49:57 05/22/17 (2)
- Hyperbole, with an "e". - Lew 21:01:45 05/22/17 (1)
- RE: Hyperbole, with an "e". - Tweaker456 21:39:36 05/22/17 (0)