Thank you for your response. Larryi, I've heard stories similar to yours... sometimes you just have to roll the dice. Jon Soderburg suggested the idea of the upgrade/mod for my Threshold T3i preamp with BG's.. The stock caps were Elna, they were red in color. He said he was getting positive results and responses from his customers whose Threshold's and Forte linestages and amps he modified, but I still felt it was a gamble when I went for the mod thinking why shouldn't I leave well enough alone. To me the results were better, but not much. The T3i was just as quiet with the Elna caps, but with the BG's there seems to be a little darker background created for the music -but again not much from before. I can hear a little more detail around each instrument -a sense of air separating them from one another which then can creates a sense of more depth in to the recording, as if I could see into the recording a little better then before... Would that be called a deeper sound stage? Anyway, the improvement was there, but by no means huge for me... I'm just glad it didn't leave my T3i sounding cold and sterile
Black Gate caps
I'm curious to know if those of you who have ever modified or upgraded the stock capacitors in their SS preamps to Black Gate caps, could hear a difference or an improvement after the mod. Seems like maybe 2 or 3 years ago when these caps were going out of production, quite a few people were jumping on the band wagon of modifying/upgrading the capacitors in their audio gear to Black Gate's. I'm sure enough time has passed for these caps to break in, so, I'm just curious to know how it turned out for those of you who made the mod, or even for those who have an opinion this subject.. Thanks.