I Recapped my Conrad Johnson PFR. Wow! Some of the best $$$ I've spent

mijostyn blathers:

millercarbon it would seem you are an expert at losing money. Wouldn't you rather buy more music?? I guess not.

So the subject, which you can scroll up and read the title but I'll save you the effort, is:

  "I Recapped my Conrad Johnson PFR. Wow! Some of the best $$$ I've spent."

Which is pretty much what I said. And pretty much what a lot of others are saying.

So gosh it kind of looks like you were so hell-bent on insulting me you unwittingly insulted the OP, and everyone else. And who knows, maybe even your own intelligence. 

Right. Of all the cost effective big bang for the buck things you can do caps are way up at the top of the list. Super easy too. The values are printed right on them. Anyone can simply look, order, swap. Hardest part is getting them to fit. Better caps almost always are bigger. Aside from that its a simple swap.

Another mind-blowing swap is better diodes. The power supply affects everything. Depending on the quality in there now newer better diodes may be just the thing. I did the ones in my tube amp and was flabbergasted what that $6 bought me!

My Oppo CD/DVD player was modded with all the caps replaced. Several hundred for the mods, more than the player cost, but the results speak for themselves. 

This all works because manufacturers have to build to a price point where the cost of every single part gets multiplied many times by the time it reaches retail. Please note: every single part. This includes shipping. Includes the box and all the packaging. Run the numbers, no wonder they are down to pennies for a cap. So you spend dollars, boom, instant massive improvement. Then go look at the prices of the components that use the quality level you put in there. They are $10k and up.

Modders rule!