If you think about capacitors, check out this video


One of my favorite nerd-channels posted this today. It’s about millions of faulty and/or counterfeit capacitors flooding the market in 2002 and after. If you have gear from that era, you might want to check it out.

What happened to capacitors

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Showing 1 response by erik_squires

If you suffered from that problem you would have known it by 2004.  laugh

It wasn't so much a counterfeit capacitor as capacitors that used counterfeit electrolytic.  There's a whole story about a chemist who "stole" the electrolytic recipe and apparently didn't do it very well. 

None of this AFAIK has had any impact at all on audio gear.