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RE: Go with Obbligato Gold Premium capacitors.....

Interesting range of choices. You left out a very competitive candidate: Sonicap Gen I. Cheap and very high quality, which answers your initial question.

I would tell you why the Auricap Theta's aren't highly regarded, but it might bias your own trials.

Please let us know the results of your experiment. Your results do not need to agree with experts or anyone else to be valid and useful for others. It's all subjective.

Keep in mind that cap break-in is a very real effect. You should be able to hear some significant change within the span of a single CD. With low level signals such as coupling duty, expect the majority of change to occur after at least twenty hours, and sometimes as much as a hundred, of steadily passing a signal. There are a very few exceptions, such as Mundorf Silver/Oil and some teflon caps, that take longer. If you remove caps and put them back in later, maintain the same signal path direction. Initially, it doesn't seem to make much difference. Caps should not be allowed to hang free in the air, supported only by their leads; they should be supported by something solid and damped to resist vibration.

Peace,
Tom E
berate is 8 and benign is 9

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