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"Hovland caps which were once darlings of everybody"

I smiled at your comment about Hovland. I remember the ads quoting Joe Roberts of Sound Practices magizine, who highly praised them. Wow, if a SET guy likes them...

It's funny how the "darlings" come and go, isn't it? I seem to recall a similar pattern with AuriCaps, which then fell out of favor.

I tried both of them, and several others over the years, as output coupling caps in one of my tube preamps. I kept coming back to a Wima MKP 10 bypassed with a 0.1 uF MultiCap RTX (and later a 0.1 uF Soviet Teflon), the Wima/polystyrene combo having been recommended to me by a veteran builder.

I understood why many liked these other caps, but they gave me too much of an "18th row center" depth. Given I listen to Blues and Rock, the bypassed Wima sounded more upfront, which suited my music better.

I'm going to try the Soviet KBG (PIO) caps (another darling) in place of the bypassed Wima, if I can ever figure out where to fit them.

And while on the topic of general opinions, bypassing coupling caps was once nearly standard practice, then reports of "it causes smearing" began to take over. Given all this is circuit seasoning, what suits others may not be to my taste, but sorting that out can sometimes get expensive.

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