Preamp Output Capacitor: Mundorf Supreme vs. Supreme Silver Oil

I just ordered a pair of Vcap odam caps to try in my preamp. Currently have some Mundorf m-cap supreme silvers. I’m tempted to try the bypass method with Vcap cutf’s after seeing what grannyring wrote.

Sweet, thanks wig.

I was wanting to go with the Miflex in my preamp but they’re just too damn big and thankfully grannyring came along with the ODAM suggestion. They’re smaller and cheaper than the Miflex so I’m looking forward to trying them. I did place an order for the CuTF .01 too!

Hey @wig.  What caps were you using before the ODAM’s? You still have the Don Sachs?

@kalali 

I didn't know the prices of the lower values at the time of my post. I bought a pair of 2.2uF ODAM's from VHaudio for $175 and the cheapest I saw for Miflex was around $200 for a pair.

Well I have to echo wig’s description of the ODAM’s after 48 hrs of use they are incredibly holographic and articulate across the board with vocals and instruments. Songs that I thought just had grunge or hash as part of its recording sound much more detailed and clean but not overly so because everything is still very musically engaging.

Now I also bypassed them with the Vcap CuTF’s but I’m hearing pretty much wig has reported. I feel like I almost got a new preamp for a small investment. Speaking of small these ODAM’s are tiny compared to the Mundorf m-cap silver 2.2uF caps they replaced. So far I’m very pleased with their performance and if they get better well that’s just gravy.

I ordered some Duelund silver bypass caps to play with the ODAM’s and see how they match up together. I’m really liking the ODAM/CuTF pairing but I’m new to this cap rolling thing so I’m experimenting. The Mundorf m cap silver caps were good but the Vcap ODAM’s are just so clear and musically satisfying I had no idea a cap could make this much of a difference.