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Capacitor rolling.

My son is getting to the Audio World.  Bought a Vincent Hybrid Pre-Amp and Vincent Hybrid Amp.

Both us MKP Film caps on each signal line-out paths. He wants a little more warm from the/voice- strings

Audio Note offers  some of their Caps for those Cap rollers. In Silver/Gold./ Cooper &Alum foil.

Very pricey compared to MKP caps. 7 times+

By the way MKP is widely used by many high-end electronic audio gear Mfg because of their very-very neutral sound & fast transits. Has anyone in this forum  have any feed back on CAP rolling? And Audio Note Caps??

Trust Me signal path Cap rolling can produce more changes than Tube rolling does in some cases..


tubes444
tubes444 OP
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Gentlemen morning all,

I see a number of thumbs-up for the Jupiter VT/Copper foil cap

series. Not familiar with this brand. I’ve used some Clarity & Mundorf

in the pass. Is Jupiter used by some of the bigger names in Pre Amp/ Amplifier Mfg? I realize there’ll be some trade offs in his Cap rolling. Being he’s trying to be a" ardent Audiophile." I wouldn’t want to steer away his young hunger for solid bass either. I agree with raulriuegas comment completely. I don’t imply my son is a bass freak.

Any online sellers of the Jupiter & Andyn to check out?


erik_squires
5,268 posts
 
@tubes444 

In the US I only know of Parts Express for Audyn.

Sonic Craft and Parts Connexion carry Jupiter, Clarity and Mundorf.

PLEASE check the physical size before buying. Some can be HUGE. Also check  your voltages needed. tube gear has hundreds of volts, so you must use appropriate cap.

Best,

E
tubes444 OP
70 posts
 

erik_squires

His Vincent Pre-amp Mk31A MK uses (4) 6n16 sub tubes from

Russia. 2 on each output path channels /Triode mode.

Caps 4.7uf 600vdc

I went to Jupiter web site noticed they offer two versions.

Cyro & Beeswax filled. Vibration damping? were their top Caps.

Any experience with these?

rauliruegas
9,123 posts
 
Dear @tubes444 :  I never tested the cooper Jupiter in my system so I can't be sure how good are but reading through different people/reviews i found out these kind of statements that makes me think are not really neutral but " colored ":


"" Jupiter copper also possesses great low-midrange richness and color that far "  

 " high degree of resolution, musicality, color "

" with "more" richness and musicality "


musicality, color richness are terms used by audiophiles for home audio system performance levels but almost never we can hear those terms when we are talking of live MUSIC at near-field.

Btw, teflon V-caps comes too in a cooper version. Other caps I have experiences with are the Sonicaps platinum and are way neutral.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC not DISTORTIONS,
R.
mechans
2,999 posts
 
At least you don't have to worry about rare NOS caps to roll !
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