Clarity Cap CMR Impressions

Hi @dgarretson

Thanks for backing me up, people usually think I make this stuff up.

Let's say 2uF and 10uF.

Any sort of comparison would be useful. Like "Exactly the same, half" etc. I should stop being so cheap and just buy a set. I just want to order everything I need at once.

Best,


Erik

Forgot to answer your voltage question. :) Lowest available, so I think that's 400V for CMR?

Thanks,

Erik

Following up...must be getting close to 100 hours on these caps. Listening to Nolatets record, Dogs, and everything is more natural sounding. Closer to being in the room - it's a live recording - and, the mids are more open and even on a track where things get frenzied with piano, vibes, drums and upright bass all going at it there's great separation (in width and depth) stability and tone. Attack of the mallets on the vibes sounds right. Great record, if you like improvised music, btw.

I just received Clarity CMR caps that will go into my 2-way Mundorf/ScanSpeak system soon.

ESR was normal, around 0.4 Ohms @1kHz for 10uF.

Caps are now puck shaped, instead of cans. About 12% smaller by volume. They also measure really tightly. Like, within 0.2% of each other and of spec. While the MR versions were also pretty tightly controlled, they were about 1% under marked values on my measurements. Still well within the 3% spec.

Going from 1% to 0.2% of marked value speaks to greatly improved manufacturing tolerances. Refinements like this are not at all easy to make.

I’ll add listening impressions much later.

Look forward to hearing your impressions. Thanks!