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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
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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geoffkait
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I’m still waiting for someone to try reversing their existing capacitors or even their new fancy ones. Given the directionality of wire, capacitors, like fuses, should sound better one way than the other, no?
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grannyring
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Yes direction plays a role in terms of outer and inner foil windings. Many cap manufacturers, not all, mark the outer foil end of the cap in some manner.  Outer foil is the input end of the cap while the inner foil is the output side. They do sound different when reversed. 
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