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RE: Do russian teflon capacitors lack musicality?

There is and has always been, on this forum, a distinct bias
towards "saving money", and making slurs against those who spend what it takes to build great equipment.

Saving money is all in how you do it! Do you fall for the bullshit-- often given-- that a DIY project or finished project should cost "X"
amount of dollars (usually the proponents of this cannot do simple arithmetic and add-up their overall construction costs)-- or do they think it is too costly and is therefore a "ripoff", etc.-- or do you think about the best? That's your call, nobody is normally going to make your choices-- they're yours.

Whether you're saving money by using these cheap parts depends on
what your standards for playback are, and especially on speaker efficiency. Medium and Low-Eff. speakers just can't tell you how
superior the best capacitors are-- GREAT High-Eff speakers CAN-- if wired up with equally good (and expensive) cables, etc.

So, IF you want the best, then buying the best caps will save money in the long run because you'll never regret them and won't have to spend
additional money looking for better caps, and tearing apart equipment to put them in.

OF COURSE the V-Caps are LIGHT YEARS better than cheap, old-technology
Mil-Spec parts. Are they a sonic bargain compared to $5.00 a throw caps? Yes! Or maybe no-- YOU decide...

Are the $5.00 a throw caps ANY GOOD AT ALL compared to a $200.00 boutique capacitor?

Hah! WHAT a laugh! They're absolute TRASH compared to the $200.00 cap.

In practice, you'll just have to decide for yourself what level you
wish to play at. The better it gets, the more it costs initially, and
the more it saves in the LONG RUN.

It's the user's choice, one could say---

-Dennis-



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