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Hi RATs!

http://v-cap.com/tefloncapacitors.html

never mind the mumbo-jumbo deluxe chatter:

These things sound better than her saying this is your lucky night ...

sell your Mother down the river and get what you really need: some new
capacitors.

Happy Ears!
Al Marcy

PS These sound too good for some people. You know who you are ...

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No capacitors sounds as good as no capacitor. It's ALWAYS possible to
modify a circuit to make it fully DC-coupled.


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Hi RATs!

http://v-cap.com/tefloncapacitors.html

never mind the mumbo-jumbo deluxe chatter:

These things sound better than her saying this is your lucky night ...

sell your Mother down the river and get what you really need: some new
capacitors.

Happy Ears!
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Hi RATs!

http://v-cap.com/tefloncapacitors.html

never mind the mumbo-jumbo deluxe chatter:

These things sound better than her saying this is your lucky night ...

sell your Mother down the river and get what you really need: some new
capacitors.

Happy Ears!
Al Marcy

PS These sound too good for some people. You know who you are ...




Hi Al,

Your mother had better be a real hottie to fetch the prices needed for these
caps.

Say, I thought you'd be the very last one to advocate super-expensive parts.
Do they really make your ears that happy?

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Hi RATs!

http://v-cap.com/tefloncapacitors.html

never mind the mumbo-jumbo deluxe chatter:

These things sound better than her saying this is your lucky night ...

sell your Mother down the river and get what you really need: some new
capacitors.


I have wanted to try a pair because everybody who has raves about them.
However, I can't get past the prices. Can someone explain to me why the
price goes up so significantly as the cap value increases? For example: a
..10uf costs $49.99 and a .47uf costs $139.99. Thanks.

Gerry


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GerryE123 wrote:

I have wanted to try a pair because everybody who has raves about them.
However, I can't get past the prices. Can someone explain to me why the
price goes up so significantly as the cap value increases? For example: a
.10uf costs $49.99 and a .47uf costs $139.99. Thanks.

Gerry


All the extra smoke and mirrors that need to be stuffed inside the
cap... 4.7 x as many.

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Hi RATs!

http://v-cap.com/tefloncapacitors.html

never mind the mumbo-jumbo deluxe chatter:

These things sound better than her saying this is your lucky night ...

sell your Mother down the river and get what you really need: some new
capacitors.


Hi Al,

Missed your updates. What else is in your circuit these days?

cheers, Ian


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GerryE123 wrote

...Can someone explain to me why the price goes up so significantly as the cap
value increases? For example: a .10uf costs $49.99 and a .47uf costs
$139.99...


Nearly 5 times the ufs for less than 3 times the price... what a bargain.

Manufacturing time per uf must reduce as size increases. Possibly due to set-up
or other dead time per cap.

cheers, Ian


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"Ian Iveson" said:


...Can someone explain to me why the price goes up so significantly as the cap
value increases? For example: a .10uf costs $49.99 and a .47uf costs
$139.99...



Nearly 5 times the ufs for less than 3 times the price... what a bargain.



Uhm....yep ;-)


Manufacturing time per uf must reduce as size increases. Possibly due to set-up
or other dead time per cap.




Simple, really.
It takes more naked Balinese virgins to make larger caps at midnight
and full moon, as naked Balinese virgins are the only ones who dare
touch the fragile silver foil that is gained from an unknow Peruvian
silver mine.
Any other being touching the foil, as well as any other time than
midnight with full moon would ruin the soundstage.

A silver mine, mind you, that was supposed to be dried up since the
time of the Conquistadores.

Imagine the difficulties in exploiting this mine, and the near
impossibility to smuggle the pure silver out of Peru and into
Bali..........

Yep, these are definitely a bargain. Get them now, before stock is
exhausted!
My pile of Mundorfs suddenly became worth nothing, I guess I'll just
have to use them in my amps, instead of keeping them as a future
investment.


( Hi Al, this is all tongue in cheek, in case you don't remember me!)

--
"All amps sound alike, but some sound more alike than others".
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Hi RATs!

Oh, um, yes, I have some bananas ... I had not posted for a year or so.
Time flies when you get lost in the instant future Internet Waltz

Now using Google Groupies - seems much too cool for an old geek like
me.

Now Playing in the Audio Dungeon:

80 Hz ehorns with Lambda 15" "Get Out of Khrma Free" and 4.25 mH choke.

Sony 400 DVD changer - factory stock, except for the weird discs in the
rack.

KEF Coda 9.2 Ubid specials. Basically, New Old Stock. Cartons are a bit
weathered, but the music is quite something. These cost less than the
new caps

Amp is Ella, from diyhifisupply.com in Hong Kong. I have changed the
tubes. I converted it to triode mode. I snipped the NFB loop. I put an
SS diode between each output plate and screen stopper. Cathode toward
screen.

Then, yesterday, the tftf caps arrived in their silk and mink shipping
booties and I soldered them in after snipping the 0.22uF Obbligato
Copper out of the circuit.

I awoke to Music a bit louder than usual. I think the new caps are
breaking in, or the Music is beaking out ...

Still sound OK ...

Happy Ears!
Al

PS OK, OK, not really silk and mink booties, just wrapped in sticky
bubble wrap in a big box of foam pellets ...



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Hi Al,

Missed your updates. What else is in your circuit these days?

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Hi RATs!

Mom was a hottie ... she was cremated a few years back

Why does spending the equivalent of a carton of cigarettes on a really
good sounding capacitor become an unholy expense which needs to be
guffawed as a crime against humanity by so many?

How much money are you planning on taking with you when you die?

My kid finished college, so, now I can finish the projects I started in
when I was in college.

I know, I could send your kid to college, but, then my kid would have
to fight him for a job. Sorry.

Besides, these caps sound really good ... *really* something, as Rev C.
put it.

Prices are only exciting once. Quality feels good as long as you can
perceive it.

Happy Ears!
Al




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Your mother had better be a real hottie to fetch the prices needed for these
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Say, I thought you'd be the very last one to advocate super-expensive parts.
Do they really make your ears that happy?

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http://v-cap.com/tefloncapacitors.html

never mind the mumbo-jumbo deluxe chatter:

These things sound better than her saying this is your lucky night ...

sell your Mother down the river and get what you really need: some new
capacitors.


I have wanted to try a pair because everybody who has raves about them.
However, I can't get past the prices. Can someone explain to me why the
price goes up so significantly as the cap value increases? For example: a
.10uf costs $49.99 and a .47uf costs $139.99. Thanks.


So they can make even more money ripping you off mainly.

Graham

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Mom was a hottie ... she was cremated a few years back

Why does spending the equivalent of a carton of cigarettes on a really
good sounding capacitor become an unholy expense which needs to be
guffawed as a crime against humanity by so many?


Because all film capacitors sound the same.

The only difference is marketing ********. And purchasers' gullibility.

Graham

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Hi RATs!

Mom was a hottie ... she was cremated a few years back

Why does spending the equivalent of a carton of cigarettes on a really
good sounding capacitor become an unholy expense which needs to be
guffawed as a crime against humanity by so many?


Why do ppl buy girls' soiled knickers too ? That's what I'd like to know !

Graham

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Hi RATs!

OK, since all wise men know everything in Audio is BS, then anybody who
thinks they hear something is crazy. Fair enough.

And since all wise men know Vodka cannot have any beneficial effect on
your palate, by Law!, it is all BS, too. Good thinking.

And Music only sounds good if you think about it properly, just like
you do.

Sure. That line of reasoning is elegant in its simplicity

Now, please explain why we have to ask you what we may or may not hear?
Is it because nobody ever can have any fun unless you say so? Great
plan. Good luck.

If you are the only non-fool, we are mostly fools, so only you know
anything useful.

I don't mind. Why do you think I care if you do?

Happy Ears!
Al





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Film caps are film caps are film caps.... The rest is smoke, mirrors
and profit. LOTS of profit. No crime in it, but the fools are not the
producers of these goods.

In any case, you are entitled to do as you see fit. There are those who
purchase expensive Vodka when the entire point of that particular
alcohol delivery system is that it has no taste at all. After a certain
level of quality (no keytones, contaminants, residual oils or
chemicals), the rest is.... well... profit.

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Hi RATs!

OK, since all wise men know everything in Audio is BS, then anybody who
thinks they hear something is crazy. Fair enough.


You may be hearing 'something' but you've been brainwashed into thinking it's
about some nebulous unspecified kind of 'quality'

All capacitors have a tolerance on their value for instance. For film caps used
in audio are typically +- 5 or 10%

So, a 0.47uF cap may actually be 0.43 or 0.52 uF, worse still for 20% tolerance
part. If it's used in an appication that's particularly value sensitive like a
filter stage there will indeed be obvious differences in performance ( frequency
response most obviously ) that are easily measured such as turnover frequency
and slope. Of couse the uneducated hear a difference and jump to the conclusion
that their shiny new capacitor is *better*, because they know no better and of
course because that's what they've been told to think.


And since all wise men know Vodka cannot have any beneficial effect on
your palate, by Law!, it is all BS, too. Good thinking.

And Music only sounds good if you think about it properly, just like
you do.


Music can also sound better under the influence of certain substances, proving
beyond doubt that all human perception is subjective and fallible on a day to
day basis.


Sure. That line of reasoning is elegant in its simplicity

Now, please explain why we have to ask you what we may or may not hear?


Because you might be interested in the underlying science - which I can assure
you is the most effective way to first-class reproduction rather than Silly
Billy fiddling with components maybe ?


Is it because nobody ever can have any fun unless you say so? Great
plan. Good luck.

If you are the only non-fool, we are mostly fools, so only you know
anything useful.

I don't mind. Why do you think I care if you do?


If you're happy being a gullible fool, more power to you ! Spend more on those
magic components !

Graham

Pro-audio designer ( that's the stuff that *makes* the recordings you listen to
btw ) for 30 years

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Because you might be interested in the underlying science - which I can assure
you is the most effective way to first-class reproduction rather than Silly
Billy fiddling with components maybe ?


Well, a reproduction system is just a bunch of parts. If none of the
parts have any effect on the sound, what can Lying Science, under, over
or parallel, do for us? It all must sound the same ... at least to
honest, educated people.

Happy Ears!
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" wrote:

Eeyore wrote:

Because you might be interested in the underlying science - which I can assure
you is the most effective way to first-class reproduction rather than Silly
Billy fiddling with components maybe ?


Well, a reproduction system is just a bunch of parts. If none of the
parts have any effect on the sound, what can Lying Science


Your disinterest in what actually makes stuff work marks you out as a clot.

, under, over
or parallel, do for us? It all must sound the same ... at least to
honest, educated people.


Uh ? Who said it would all sound the same. I know it doesn't. I also know most of
the reasons why.

Graham

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Well......... You say that about vodka but I can taste a difference.

The best I've ever had was http://www.wyborowa.com/ from Poland

It has a truly smooth flavour - not chemical at all like Smirnoff for example.
It's actually nice to drink neat and very well chilled.

Graham


Chopin is very good as well. Both potato vodkas. Maybe that's the key.

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Hi Graham,

You live where stuff works in spite of all the wretched parts. Fine.
Enjoy yourself.

I live where things work as a system. No part of any working system is
inert.

You are clearly inert. Therefore, you are not part of a working system.


What you think of as good sound is not interesting to me. I doubt it is
to you, either.

Thank you for expressing yourself as best you can. Don't worry, your
secrets of great electrical engineering are stone safe from my prying
mind. Forever and ever.

Happy Ears!
Al




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Your disinterest in what actually makes stuff work marks you out as a clot.


Uh ? Who said it would all sound the same. I know it doesn't. I also know most of
the reasons why.

Graham


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Well......... You say that about vodka but I can taste a difference.

The best I've ever had was http://www.wyborowa.com/ from Poland

It has a truly smooth flavour - not chemical at all like Smirnoff for example.
It's actually nice to drink neat and very well chilled.

Graham


Chopin is very good as well. Both potato vodkas. Maybe that's the key.

RK


Possibly so. It's the stuff that *isn't* alcohol that gives it the flavour.

I also once bought a really cheap vodka that tasted decent too. It had probably
never ever been near a proper ditillery but seemed to have been concocted in a lab
more likely. That too contained some kind of 'vegetable flavouring'.

Graham


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Hi Graham,

You live where stuff works in spite of all the wretched parts. Fine.
Enjoy yourself.

I live where things work as a system. No part of any working system is
inert.


Everything is a system.

Assigning magic properties to inanimate objects like capacitors is just plain retarded
though.

You are a testament to the failures of modern education.

Btw - has it never crossed your mind that (a) I care about quality sound too and (b) I
might actually know what I'm talking about ?

A capacitor is simply defined by the laws of physics. Those can take account of
material properties too. If OTOH you prefer magic to science, good luck to you - shame
about your wallet !

Graham

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Hi Eyesore,

Not everything is a system. Much of what is purported to be
conversation is just a racket. As in, unscrupulous activity. You think
you know the True Path to Fine Sound. Great. Every jerkoff thinks he is
the world's greatest lover. Whatever keeps your ass from freezing to
the toilet seat is Hot ****. Capacitors are not Magic. Neither is your
asshole. Just little machineries in a big Universe. I like the sound of
mine. The sounds you type are putrid pretense. You have no value.
Please spare me further exposure to your fine UK education.
I am old and sick and not partial to self-important pukes.

Happy Ears!
Al




Eeyore wrote:
Everything is a system.

Assigning magic properties to inanimate objects like capacitors is just plain retarded
though.

You are a testament to the failures of modern education.

Btw - has it never crossed your mind that (a) I care about quality sound too and (b) I
might actually know what I'm talking about ?

A capacitor is simply defined by the laws of physics. Those can take account of
material properties too. If OTOH you prefer magic to science, good luck to you - shame
about your wallet !

Graham


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Hi Eyesore,

Not everything is a system. Much of what is purported to be
conversation is just a racket. As in, unscrupulous activity. You think
you know the True Path to Fine Sound. Great. Every jerkoff thinks he is
the world's greatest lover. Whatever keeps your ass from freezing to
the toilet seat is Hot ****. Capacitors are not Magic. Neither is your
asshole. Just little machineries in a big Universe. I like the sound of
mine. The sounds you type are putrid pretense. You have no value.
Please spare me further exposure to your fine UK education.
I am old and sick and not partial to self-important pukes.


You're also an idiot.

Graham



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It takes more naked Balinese virgins to make larger caps at midnight
and full moon, as naked Balinese virgins are the only ones who dare
touch the fragile silver foil that is gained from an unknow Peruvian
silver mine.
Any other being touching the foil, as well as any other time than
midnight with full moon would ruin the soundstage.


LOL!
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** Err - does " tin foil " = aluminium foil, here ??




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wrote:

Hi RATs!

http://v-cap.com/tefloncapacitors.html

never mind the mumbo-jumbo deluxe chatter:

These things sound better than her saying this is your lucky night ...

sell your Mother down the river and get what you really need: some new
capacitors.

Happy Ears!
Al Marcy

PS These sound too good for some people. You know who you are ...


Yeah, I get these dudes saying this and that cap sounds the best, they say
they like
teflon, then they move to oilers, film this that then foilers and then
finally Auricaps
and Hovelands and Jensen et all and they don't ever keep an identical
system
with reference caps to see if the cap change was worth all the expense and
soldering.

Whener I have changed a capacitor I have heard nothing different, and
was unable to get a reliable preference made by a customer more than
random 50% chance would predict; Ie, I ask someone to identify which
channel has cap X or Y and
nobody chooses correctly better than 50% of choices.

But nevertheless, if directed, I will solder in whatever caps ppl want.

I just cannot see what the heck is so special about teflon,
except that its great in frying pans.

But Hi Al!!! you have been missing for a long time you old son of a gun!

And my mother is priceless.

The world's least said sentence:-
"Just you come over here sonny, these fancy caps are cheap."

The world's second least said sentence:-
"Jus youse lie down here luvvy, it won't costyer anyfink".

Patrick Turner.

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teflon, then they move to oilers


I don't get the oil thing at all, seems inconsistent to me -- oil has a
high dielectric constant, just the opposite of what the reasoning for using
Teflon seems to be (and of course the dielectric constant of polypropylene
is even lower than Teflon).

The only thing that makes sense is that foil would be better than film, for
the same reason Vishay makes metal foil resistors along their metal film
line (they have a white paper explaining why it matters, to what extent
it's just marketing I can't judge).
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??? Tin is a completely different element from aluminum.

Makes for a great non-stick coating on the nice thick pure-copper French
cookware you can buy. It's the one good thing to come out of france,
besides the recipes. There's even a retinning shop here, where you can
take your copper cookware when the tinning wears off and they heat it on
the torch and swirl molten tin in it. And tin is a trace element that the
body uses anyways.

Off-topic enough for ya?! XD


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** Err - does " tin foil " = aluminium foil, here ??




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"Prune"

??? Tin is a completely different element from aluminum.



** Idiot.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil





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http://v-cap.com/tefloncapacitors.html


** Err - does " tin foil " = aluminium foil, here ??


Makes you wonder doesn't it ?

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teflon, then they move to oilers


I don't get the oil thing at all, seems inconsistent to me -- oil has a
high dielectric constant, just the opposite of what the reasoning for using
Teflon seems to be (and of course the dielectric constant of polypropylene
is even lower than Teflon).

The only thing that makes sense is that foil would be better than film, for
the same reason Vishay makes metal foil resistors along their metal film
line (they have a white paper explaining why it matters, to what extent
it's just marketing I can't judge).


Foil is used for high currents to avoid internal heating.

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Hi RATs!

Yes, we are fickle old rotters

It is a bit of a cognitive stretch to think I have been occasionally
pushing my limits forward for half a century ... it may well be it is
impossible I ever have pushed anything but money and solder ... oh,
well, it is fun playing Doktor Audio in my Audio Dungeon, heh heh ha ha
hoo hee hoo ha ha. I mean, what did I think I was hearing thru the
earpod of the crystal Heatkit radio I built in 1959? Music?

You Oz dudes got me into the screen stopper diode madness, as well.

This is for triode wired 6550, and all those fine old deviants

Somebody, sorry, I am legally brain dead, remember, so I forgot who,
sent me a tiny email that said try an SS diode from the plate to the
screen stopper resistor ... cathode to the screen end. So, I trucked on
down to the Fry's Electronics mega-big box and bought four matching
diodes. They carry hundreds of diodes, I bought the only one they had
four of on the huge rack ... 600V 6A, perhaps a bit overspec. No chance
it is more than 0.1A

Yup. Another freaking miracle of sonic enrichment.

_____

Is there no end in sight? Remember, I was in Nam ... that "light at the
end of the tunnel" was just a luminous fungus infection in the asshole
of the GI in front of me

_____

Three most common lies told in USA:

1. I gave at the office.
2. It is in the mail.
3. I won't come in your mouth.

Happy Ears!
Al





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Yeah, I get these dudes saying this and that cap sounds the best, they say
they like
teflon, then they move to oilers, film this that then foilers and then
finally Auricaps
and Hovelands and Jensen et all and they don't ever keep an identical
system
with reference caps to see if the cap change was worth all the expense and
soldering.

Whener I have changed a capacitor I have heard nothing different, and
was unable to get a reliable preference made by a customer more than
random 50% chance would predict; Ie, I ask someone to identify which
channel has cap X or Y and
nobody chooses correctly better than 50% of choices.

But nevertheless, if directed, I will solder in whatever caps ppl want.

I just cannot see what the heck is so special about teflon,
except that its great in frying pans.

But Hi Al!!! you have been missing for a long time you old son of a gun!

And my mother is priceless.

The world's least said sentence:-
"Just you come over here sonny, these fancy caps are cheap."

The world's second least said sentence:-
"Jus youse lie down here luvvy, it won't costyer anyfink".

Patrick Turner.


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Hi RATs!

Yes, we are fickle old rotters

It is a bit of a cognitive stretch to think I have been occasionally
pushing my limits forward for half a century ... it may well be it is
impossible I ever have pushed anything but money and solder ... oh,
well, it is fun playing Doktor Audio in my Audio Dungeon, heh heh ha ha
hoo hee hoo ha ha. I mean, what did I think I was hearing thru the
earpod of the crystal Heatkit radio I built in 1959? Music?

You Oz dudes got me into the screen stopper diode madness, as well.

This is for triode wired 6550, and all those fine old deviants

Somebody, sorry, I am legally brain dead, remember, so I forgot who,
sent me a tiny email that said try an SS diode from the plate to the
screen stopper resistor ... cathode to the screen end. So, I trucked on
down to the Fry's Electronics mega-big box and bought four matching
diodes. They carry hundreds of diodes, I bought the only one they had
four of on the huge rack ... 600V 6A, perhaps a bit overspec. No chance
it is more than 0.1A

Yup. Another freaking miracle of sonic enrichment.


Making a radical change to the circuit arrangement will of course be audible.

AIUI your mod increases distortion which some ppl find audibly pleasing. This
may indeed 'enrich' listening for you but it has absolutely nothing to do with
hi-fi or sonic accuracy.

Indeed for precisely these kinds of reasons - recording studios own all manners
of outboard effects to provide this kind of 'enhancement'.

Your method is akin to wiring in an such a processor permanently with no way of
turning it off so as to hear the original.

Graham



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Anyone quoting wikipedia is an idiot. Don't you know any ****tard can edit
articles on that site? I can go and write bull**** on a page as well.
Hmm, I should make an article about Phil Allison...


"Phil Allison" wrote in news:4ie870F3d7g8U1
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"Prune"

??? Tin is a completely different element from aluminum.



** Idiot.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil







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I was talking about this:
http://www.vishay.com/docs/49435/49435.pdf

Much of it is marketing, of course, but Table 1 is interesting and they say
these are measured results of this current noise (as opposed to the regular
thermal noise) they are talking about.


Eeyore wrote in
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Prune wrote:

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teflon, then they move to oilers


I don't get the oil thing at all, seems inconsistent to me -- oil has
a high dielectric constant, just the opposite of what the reasoning
for using Teflon seems to be (and of course the dielectric constant
of polypropylene is even lower than Teflon).

The only thing that makes sense is that foil would be better than
film, for the same reason Vishay makes metal foil resistors along
their metal film line (they have a white paper explaining why it
matters, to what extent it's just marketing I can't judge).


Foil is used for high currents to avoid internal heating.

Graham



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Oops, my mistake, not table 1 but the numbers in the headings on the
subsequent pages.


Prune wrote in
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I was talking about this:
http://www.vishay.com/docs/49435/49435.pdf

Much of it is marketing, of course, but Table 1 is interesting and
they say these are measured results of this current noise (as opposed
to the regular thermal noise) they are talking about.


Eeyore wrote in
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Prune wrote:

Patrick Turner wrote in
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teflon, then they move to oilers

I don't get the oil thing at all, seems inconsistent to me -- oil
has a high dielectric constant, just the opposite of what the
reasoning for using Teflon seems to be (and of course the dielectric
constant of polypropylene is even lower than Teflon).

The only thing that makes sense is that foil would be better than
film, for the same reason Vishay makes metal foil resistors along
their metal film line (they have a white paper explaining why it
matters, to what extent it's just marketing I can't judge).


Foil is used for high currents to avoid internal heating.

Graham





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Prune wrote:

Anyone quoting wikipedia is an idiot. Don't you know any ****tard can edit
articles on that site? I can go and write bull**** on a page as well.
Hmm, I should make an article about Phil Allison...


Just because you *can* edit it doesn't mean it happens often. I find it a
valuable information resource. If the article is patently wrong then it will
soon be noticed and corrected. That gives a level of confidence.

Your argument incidentally could also be levelled at idiots with their own
websites. As in any ****tard can put their own website online. There is *no*
safeguard about these whatever and indeed they pose a greater risk.

Graham

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Prune wrote:

Eeyore wrote in
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Prune wrote:

Patrick Turner wrote in
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teflon, then they move to oilers

I don't get the oil thing at all, seems inconsistent to me -- oil has
a high dielectric constant, just the opposite of what the reasoning
for using Teflon seems to be (and of course the dielectric constant
of polypropylene is even lower than Teflon).

The only thing that makes sense is that foil would be better than
film, for the same reason Vishay makes metal foil resistors along
their metal film line (they have a white paper explaining why it
matters, to what extent it's just marketing I can't judge).


Foil is used for high currents to avoid internal heating.

Graham


I was talking about this:
http://www.vishay.com/docs/49435/49435.pdf

Much of it is marketing, of course, but Table 1 is interesting and they say
these are measured results of this current noise (as opposed to the regular
thermal noise) they are talking about.


That's about resistors though, not caps.

Using good quality resistors especially in the critical locations is critical to
first class performance. I'm happy with metal film for those applications.

Mind you, there's good metal film and cheap and nasty too !

Graham

can I encourage you not to top-post btw ?

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