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Tech Corner => Capacitors => Topic started by: brenden on November 17, 2014, 01:02:12 PM
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This is it . This one beat out good quality film caps as a supplementary bypass in power supply on my Stax CA-X pro .
The increase in sound quality with this cap was shocking ,although I did bypass it with a small exotic film cap to bring some sparkle to the high frequencies .
The combo is stunning .
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These must be relatively new make of simic, looks interesting. You are right, adding a bypass cap will change the sound.
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Actually these are custom maufactured Elnas and the alpha super gold is the highest spec caps elna make.Very few find their way on to the market.The ones in the picture were manufactured in japan and you can see the date wrtten on them year 93 and the second two numbers designate the week. .later ones wew manufactured in Thailand probably from the early to mid 2000's and can have a matt finnish .
These ones have 24kt gold plated ofc leads although some are made without gold leads..
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Are these caps really hard to find??
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There are a few types but the ones with the gold leads are usually the ones to get.The ones I used on this occasion are the large size .They are as big as a normal 1000uf cap and not common at all,
but have been lucky to acquire a few in different values and types in the highest grades .