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Offline ochremoon

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Miflex paper in oil caps
« on: January 12, 2016, 09:55:29 AM »
Anyone know anything about these caps? They look like they're modelled on Dueland cast to me.

http://www.monoandstereo.com/2016/01/miflex-paper-in-oil-capacitors-are-back.html#more

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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2016, 03:53:00 PM »
Man there is a glut of caps around worth trying, but i have a draw full of discards, don't tempt me please, Don't know anything about these, but i will check them out.

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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2016, 10:34:56 AM »
Great to see look similar to duelunds
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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2016, 11:17:59 AM »
I don't like that they leak oil after a while though (Duelund Cast). This is one of the best and most expensive caps in the world so build quality should commensurate. Oh well, even the VSF got problem last time, I guess this is expected (?).
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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2016, 10:57:59 PM »
Those remind me of the caps Jimmy was playing with, same twisted lead outs...kinda.

Maybe a variation of them?

The ones he played with are sectional by the look, but otherwise, a similar look, more than others that i have seen.

I could be wrong.

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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2016, 09:46:22 PM »
Those remind me of the caps Jimmy was playing with, same twisted lead outs...kinda.

Maybe a variation of them?

The ones he played with are sectional by the look, but otherwise, a similar look, more than others that i have seen.

I could be wrong.

http://jimmyauw.com/2013/10/31/no-name-capacitor-nearly-final/

i might get back into audio soon
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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2016, 11:09:49 PM »
Yep , sell your cars and get some music into your life .
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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2016, 12:20:36 AM »
Yep , sell your cars and get some music into your life .
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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2019, 12:31:35 PM »
I've just bought 0.1uf miflex caps for bypass purposes in my tube preamp. Will show pics when they are installed!

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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2019, 06:54:19 PM »
I've just bought 0.1uf miflex caps for bypass purposes in my tube preamp. Will show pics when they are installed!
Interesting did you get the copper or aluminium. I love trying capacitors.

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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2019, 07:40:04 AM »
Mate wanted me to steal the signal early in his Rotel player passing it through some quality caps like I had done in my Marantz, the Rotel is a better implemented TDA1541 player than many of the cheaper ones, black gates throughout, .22uf decoupling caps around the DAC chip and a more symmetrical circuit from the DAC chip to the RCAs.

I should have snagged one of these instead of my CD65.

Anyway, used some 1uf Miflex Copper Paper Oil caps, only around 10 hours up so far but already starting to open up a little and more detail evident compared with first hour.

Will be interesting to see how they progress while I still have it with me. Edit: I know of one guy at least that says he likes these better than the Jupiter Copper's.
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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2019, 04:34:19 PM »
Data i am not a big fan of the Jupiter Copper's, the one i used had silver lead outs, good but not great. But its all so system dependent.

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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2019, 01:08:03 AM »
Hay, Steve, was just a reference, only one I had :)

While I thought Jupiters were alright when I used some, I much preferred Duelund Copper VSF caps, unfortunately very expensive now  :'(
I miss that rich layered bass and sweet mids the VSF's have  8)

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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2019, 01:45:54 PM »
I have some miflex to try too . Havent had time to install them yet .
  Developing my own pf range capacitors. 
     Very promising cost no object  to fill the  pf size void .
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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2019, 03:31:08 AM »
I have some .1uf KPCU-01 I was to use as by-passes on some Andyn Copper's in my CD player's output, won't get around to trying them for a couple of weeks now though.

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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2019, 12:31:23 AM »
The Miflex are in as bypasses over already run in Andyn Copper Foils in the CD-60. only around 15 hours on them but from the get go they removed the harshness from the character of the Andyn's, not that they were bad, just taken a step forward in a few ways having the Miflex in there. I'll wait for around 50+ hours before maybe other observations.

Edit: Not really able to speak on differences with the Miflex really, It's a different player than previously, I'd also need to be using a single cap same value of each to make a proper evaluation. Have also changed some resistors in my amp.
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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2019, 12:09:58 PM »
The Miflex are in as bypasses over already run in Andyn Copper Foils in the CD-60. only around 15 hours on them but from the get go they removed the harshness from the character of the Andyn's, not that they were bad, just taken a step forward in a few ways having the Miflex in there. I'll wait for around 50+ hours before maybe other observations.

Edit: Not really able to speak on differences with the Miflex really, It's a different player than previously, I'd also need to be using a single cap same value of each to make a proper evaluation. Have also changed some resistors in my amp.
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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2020, 10:53:45 AM »
Love the cable ties, One of my favorite pieces of HiFi gear

G'day Steve. The company I am working for now is selling hi end cable ties and heat shrink. We mainly sell to OEM and military. Time to upgrade me thinks?  ;D ;D
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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2020, 01:13:31 AM »
I removed the Miflex copper caps I had by passing the Andyn's, turns out the by pass was smearing the sound, over all much better with just the Andyn copper caps without them.

Kicking myself for putting them across the Andyn caps, sound is so much better without them  :o

Now, I wonder if Duelund's new JDM range being released will be more like the Cast or the VSF's, hope someone here reports after trying them  8)

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Re: Miflex paper in oil caps
« Reply #19 on: July 23, 2020, 06:35:41 PM »
Hi Bypassing caps is an old idea because most older vintage oil caps are not that good, so often the performance improved with a bypass, with the new stable of excellent caps bypassing just does not work for me, so i am not at all surprised