[Digital Enigma]

Mundorf oil filled silver and gold anyone?

 

[bpiotrow13]

Audio grade electrolytic or big boy film capacitors?

Audyn q4 cap, I found it to be good value for money. But we will see

 

[Dawgfish]

Mundorf oil filled silver and gold anyone?

Unfortunately I haven't heard the silver and gold but I'm a really big fan of the Mundorf silver in oil. Great sounding cap.

 

[Paladin79]

Unfortunately I haven't heard the silver and gold but I'm a really big fan of the Mundorf silver in oil. Great sounding cap.

I have used some of those as well.

 

[Galapac]

Audyn q4 cap, I found it to be good value for money. But we will see

Audyn are good value as well as Sonic caps. Mundorf have their fans but have become very expensive as of late.

 

[Paladin79]

Audyn are good value as well as Sonic caps. Mundorf have their fans but have become very expensive as of late.

I never thought about price too much, local folks paid as much as $3,000 for amps I designed, that money paid for most all of my gear including my tube collection.

 

[bagwell359]

So i finally installed the speedball upgrade. Not very difficult.



I think speedball is a must with hd650 (which is abviously subjective). Much better definition, air and punch. I also like TS5998 much better than the stock GE6as7ga.

Now time to change output caps

Textbook clean. Mine not so much... but by Winter it'll be cleaned up, and include two very large (60 mm x 76 mm) matched Clarity Cap CSA 100 uf

 

[bpiotrow13]

Audyn are good value as well as Sonic caps. Mundorf have their fans but have become very expensive as of late.

Yeah, i was intending to go for mundorf, but audyn's are much cheaper so i decided to go for them. For now BHC is just to experiment so i am going step by step, strating from standard unit, next speedball, next Audyns and we will see. I am having a lot of fun and learning a lot.

Really recommend everyone to do the same and not to start with fully upgraded Crack.

 

[tomi1976]

Let go my Feliks Euforia and downgraded to a prebuilt BHC and I do like it so far.
Don’t have a list of modifications, I can see the Mundorf caps, though.

 

[Galapac]

Let go my Feliks Euforia and downgraded to a prebuilt BHC and I do like it so far.
Don’t have a list of modifications, I can see the Mundorf caps, though.

From the pics your upgraded BHC also has Cree diodes, upgraded volume pot, CX-7 choke, speed ball, and Mundorf caps.
The way those caps are placed I'm surprised you are able to fit that in the case.

 

[tomi1976]

Thanks for the insight, out of curiosity, what would estimate a BHC like that to be worth? Bought it new for 650€
And yes, the case did not fit the caps, added additional spacing under the rubber feet

 

[tomi1976]

Because at first I thought it is a bit much, but, the base kit would be with customs and tax at 450€ here, without speedball etc
And then the caps habe a MSRP of 679,80€
Seem to have had a good deal after all
https://www.mundorf.com/audio/en/shop/Capacitors/Audio_Caps_EVO/MCap_Evo_SGO/

 

[Galapac]

Considering you would pay close to $500 U.S. for the unmade kit and your upgrades I would consider it a great deal.
I am not sure what type of volume pot that is but with the caps and other upgrades it is probably worth close to $1000 with labor factored in.

 

[Paladin79]

I always built my own Crack cabinets so they would accommodate large caps as well as VU meters.

 

[Dawgfish]

Audyn are good value as well as Sonic caps. Mundorf have their fans but have become very expensive as of late.

I really enjoy Sonic Caps as well. They have great performance for the price and are my usual go-to cap now if I don't want to pay a premium for upper end Mundorfs, VCaps, Jupitor, and the like.