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Psvane Teflon capacitors real or fakes?

These are great looking capacitors and supposed to be competing against the Audience, Rel, V-Cap, and Sonicap Teflon capacitors. A couple of my tweaky friends who have no end to new capacitors gave them a try and had one quit after a month or so, and with the wire cut off, no return possible. So they cut it open, yes they are curious, and according to them, the guts looked like mylar, measured like mylar??? Could these not be Teflon caps after all??? I open this for discussion with some of the tweaky electonic minds out there to get to the bottom of this. If they are not genuine teflon, I would not want fellow audiophiles to get ripped by another false claim. But to be fair, real verifiable data should be submitted here, no guesswork. I trust my friends, but I did not do the test, so I open it to other philes. Hey, I like a great deal too, but if it is not as advertised, I get pissed too. Take a look fellow philes, and lets solve the mystery....Jallen
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sniper9999
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Dear JAllen, it is not difficult to differential teflon from mylar, sophisticated equipment is not necessary. You just need to set a soldering iron to 270 deg. Celsius, and poke the tip onto the film, teflon can stand this temperature and mylar will melt like butter.
I am also interested in this cheap copper teflon and will buy a pair for evaluation from an authorized dealer here. Will let you know the results very soon. Stay tuned!!!
sniper9999
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To be fair I would purchase the caps from an authorized dealer, later today.
sniper9999
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The Psvane caps I got from the authorized dealer is definitely NOT teflon, the DF is soooo high, and sonically it lacks teflon's clarity. Another fake product from China.
sniper9999
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there is no point to divert attention, I suggest anyone who has obtained his Psvane caps from reputed distributors like Grant Fidelity or Parts Connexion to have his caps' DF checked. There is no excuse for Psvane to claim that there are fake Psvane caps on the market since we know Grant Fidelity and Parts Connexion much better than Psvane.
sniper9999
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Hi everybody, I am a Hong Konger and we Chinese are the same as Westerners, as far as the interpretation of "what a copper teflon capacitor means" is concerned----it must be refering to the foil and film material, NOT THE LEADS. There is no cultural difference, or any such errors caused by the difference between Chinese/Western language communication issue. Cheers!
sniper9999
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copper stability has nothing to deal with Psvane's credibility.
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