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Old 12-09-2007, 06:19 AM   #239 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Gnoshroom View Post
^ Good question. I was wondering something along the same lines with two caps being redundantly unnecessary. Why add more caps into the equation?
i guess its a trade off, i would love to have 2 x high-ish value uF teflon caps solely in a portable v-cap dock.

but that would be price prohibitive even more so than the total paid for the entire unit in question.

i guess what ken has done is to provide a fairly 'affordable' (comparitively) solution to have the two OIMPS essentially taking front seat in the processing, and passing them off with the lower value teflons to provide a nice trade off sonically, where you will get the best of both worlds, a unique sound somewhere between solely v-cap and somewhere between solely teflon based, it will be IMHO a fairly rich textured environment with solid resolving tonal complexities, the way ken has configured them.

*** i am lead to believe teflon vcaps do not sound at all like their burnt in selves till 600+hrs, in fact it is reported that not only do they not sound there best until massive ammounts of burn in, but that they overtly sound BAD and quite loathsome until such time, a quirk of the cap.***

have to wait and see.
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