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Now (and I'm sure you have given it plenty of thought) aren't the Mundorf's the next try? For whatever reason, I have only used old Vitamin Q's, Jensen paper-in-oils, and Auricaps but my next cap will certainly be Mundorf's. They seem to be a big rage in the DIY community.
There is the Supreme, Silver/Oil, and Silver/Gold (they basically double in price as you go up) and I'm told by a user of all the above the Supreme's (basically same price as auricaps) are fantastic.
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There are tons of caps I'd like to try: Jensen, AudioNote, Dynamicap, all the various flavors of RelCap, Sonicap, the various things from Mundorf or course, and about 10 others I can't seem to remember right now. Problem is that I only buy new caps when I need them for something, and since projects have gotten
larger and more expensive of late, and since I now have a surplus of caps, the rate at which I try them is pretty slow. I do have in my head that, once the above linked project is done, I may do a parafeed version of it which would necessitate a new set of caps. But, honestly, that is not likely to happen for many months if at all. So, I'd love to do it, but probably not for a while.
I read a "paper" recently from a guy that compared lots of very expensive caps -- I have been searching for it for the last few days to link to it, but have not restumbled upon it. A lot of it is audiophile BS, but some of it is pretty useful. However, he rated one if the caps I like a lot so poorly (the Jupiters) that I am not sure how much credence I give to the rest of what he has to say. I also think he may have had a bad set ... or I have a particularly good set I suppose ... or that he melted them, but anyhow, his ratings are out there and worth looking at. He liked the top of the line Mundorf a lot as I recall, and also the top of the line AudioNote copper foil's I think.
I also have a few more things to add (blackgate bypassed by VitQ, blackgate bypassed by Russian Teflon, blackgate bypassed by sonicap, etc) but have not gotten around to writing it up yet. For the record, all of those things were improvements to a Blackgate N series cap with the VitQ being my favorite and the sonicap my least
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