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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
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escritorjuan
118 posts
 
Guess I lied.  I actually ended up swapping out the Mundorf MCap Supreme SilverGold capacitors for the MCap Supreme EVO SilverGold caps yesterday after arriving home from work.  I unplugged and opened up the DAC, ran errands for about an hour or so, then set about carefully removing the former for the latter with careful soldering.  

As with the Supreme SilverGold, the Supreme EVO SilverGold sounded a touch harsh as it began the breaking-in process.  However, after several hours, they began opening up.  I look forward to observing how they sound in the coming months!
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escritorjuan
118 posts
 
My review of the experience swapping in Mundorf caps is now up.  You can read it at this link:

http://prairieaudiomancave.com/reviews--reports/mundorf-madness-a-look-at-the-impact-of-a-capacitor-upgrade-on-a-dac

Cheers,



Juan C. Ayllon
fisher_400
19 posts
 
Russian K40Y-9 are musical, a little on the warm side & frankly outperformed Mundorf per my ears.
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grannyring
4,637 posts
 
Agreed! I do like the new PIO or PIW (Wax) caps today from Duelund and Jupiter better, but they are crazy expensive. I use the NOS Russians, the 75 series, in crossovers. When I can afford it I go for the Jupiter copper foils in my upgrades. 
kosst_amojan
2,095 posts
 
I'm still waiting for the first transistor rolling thread. 
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