In Reply to: Question about Sprague Vitamin Q posted by SuperB on January 28, 2025 at 05:22:52:
This type of cap likely has a very high dielectric absorption. It would be my last choice for coupling in a preamp. Polypropylene film is much more transparent.
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- RE: Question about Sprague Vitamin Q - Triode_Kingdom 05:48:18 01/28/25 (15)
- RE: Question about Sprague Vitamin Q - SuperB 11:07:43 01/28/25 (13)
- RE: Question about Sprague Vitamin Q - Triode_Kingdom 12:13:08 01/28/25 (11)
- +1 nt - Ralph 13:32:09 01/28/25 (0)
- RE: Question about Sprague Vitamin Q - SuperB 12:42:45 01/28/25 (9)
- Oil filled coupling caps are often bad news with one excepetion - Ralph 13:40:47 01/28/25 (8)
- RE: Oil filled coupling caps are often bad news with one excepetion - SuperB 01:35:08 01/29/25 (7)
- I don't contest that - Ralph 08:39:52 01/29/25 (6)
- with push/pull I have had GOOD sound by using two different caps for each channel say.. - Cleantimestream 14:33:54 02/13/25 (0)
- RE: I don't contest that - Tre' 19:25:02 01/29/25 (3)
- Did you test them at working Voltages? - Ralph 08:34:38 01/30/25 (2)
- Yes I did. nt - Tre' 10:00:24 01/30/25 (1)
- Time will tell if luck is playing a role. - Ralph 11:44:13 01/30/25 (0)
- +1 (nt) - Paul Joppa 09:17:37 01/29/25 (0)
- RE: Question about Sprague Vitamin Q - SuperB 11:39:12 01/28/25 (0)
- RE: Question about Sprague Vitamin Q - SuperB 05:59:36 01/28/25 (0)