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RE: There is no best , even the most expensive are just different

Only in good ole' USA a family can own a bridge as it is the case of The Ambassador Bridge spanning across Detroit river to Canada. Billions in trade goes over that bridge every year so sure I'll buy the bridge from you ASAP:)
I replaced a load o VH copper caps from Audio NOte phono board (caps costed more than the whole phono stage) because the result was mediocre. I put Audio Note copper there and all fell into place. Later my friend (and owner of the phonostage) started obsessing over AN silver PIO's $$$$. I told him that his whole chain sits on copper and the sound won't balance with silver caps but he didn't listen. Another costly exercise..I bought a pair of 0.22 copper VH caps for pennies from a guy who put back $0.50 mylar caps which were originally installed in his amp. He bought the amp from a "Tweaker1500" and wanted to reverse to original voicing which was a lot more pleasing.
I read about RTX caps so much that I bought 4x0.47uF/630V to make a pair of output caps for my EAR834 Clone. After a year and half of break-in time I gave up and sourced Electrocube 950 series caps and I never looked back.
I don't even want to look inside my $12k Nagra PLP pre and it's shitload of .25$ wholesale ROE PP coupling Capacitors.
I'm not saying that designer caps are crap. It's just a guess and a bit of good luck or a lot of experience to determine what will work in what position in the circuit in what system. Nothing wrong with having a fun chasing that rabbit though. Still cheaper than a pro hooker ..



Edits: 10/08/21
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