I thought it was down to cost that cheap elco's were used. There are plenty of designs on some more expensive kit that use film caps under 10uf for dc blocking.
I take your point that the new rubycon Z caps are very good and much cheaper than the older ones. I still can't get my head around choosing to use elco's in the signal path. I'll try a couple in one of my cd players ;) -- UV101 Touch,Linear Low Noise PSU,2 Regs,2 direct Clocks,Caps.. SB3 Deep Blue screen - 2 Clocks, 3 Low noise regs, SEPC & ZA caps, External PSU 80VA, Hexfred & Mundorf SI, RA Signature PowerKord. Audio Aero Capitole MKII Spinner & DAC, RESTEK fantasy (modded), Heavily modded SL-1200MKII,Denon DL-103L by Expert Stylus Co (Sapphire Cantilever &custom Diamond stylus),Classe Processor, Focal 706v kimber rewire and Mundorf Supreme in crossovers, 8TC speaker cables, Kimber power cables &NNUX mains filter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UV101's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37086 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93875 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
