In Reply to: RE: Question about Sprague Vitamin Q posted by SuperB on January 28, 2025 at 11:07:43:
"Paper dielectric is impregnated with mineral oil"
PIO dielectrics are inferior in virtually every way to standard (dry) film capacitors. Guitar players love this type for the distortion they introduce into the signal path. Ask your friends about dielectric absorption.
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Follow Ups
- 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)