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Help choosing coupling caps

I have an Audioprism Mantissa tubed linestage and have upgraded the caps to teflons (Chris V V caps) amazing sound and very revealing

I'm now thinking of changing the caps on my dodds. i'm looking at v caps once again however the cost and revealing nature of these caps may become "too much of a good thing" and perhaps I should look at a similar quality cap that errs a bit on the neutral/warm side of things

Anyone have experience using different caps in conjunction with Chris Teflons
i'm in process of gathering information at this time any relevant input is very much appreciated
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dgarretson
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I have four quads of V-Cap TFT & Mundorf Silver/Gold across four line stage & amp components. There is good synergy, though cost-no-object I would go all V-Cap. I don't think you can have too much of a good thing.
dgarretson
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Construction of SIO is somewhat ambiguous, as Mundorf mentions both polyprop and metalized paper construction:

"Our state-of-the-art metallised Polypropylen foils make it possible to maintain extremely exacting production tolerances that cannot be achieved with traditional oil/paper capacitor designs. This is also the first time that the benefits of oil-impregnated capacitor design have been successfully combined with the well-known long-term stability of metallised paper and internal series wiring for induction-free performance."

I believe the Silver/Gold version is dry, which may account for its temp rating to 85C, as compared to 65C for the oil versions. 65C could be problematic in a hot chassis.
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