Replacing Capacitors, I Don’t Wanna!


Hi All,

I spoke to my speaker tech the other day and he brought up my ASR Emitter II Exclusive amplifier, referring to its age and the number of capacitors I’ll have to replace. I bought it new in 2011 so I expect to get at least another ten years before I’ll have to replace its 50+ capacitors but admittedly, I have little knowledge in this area. Just wondering what others have to say about this and I appreciate your input. Here’s a description of the amp ;

https://asraudio.de/files/ASR-Emitter2-Exclusive-Akku-Audiophile-Test-2011-EN.pdf

goofyfoot

Showing 1 response by mswale

I'm using almost 50yo stuff that has never been touched but cleaning and adjustments. It still sounds wonderful! While some of the capacitors might have drifted, they still should all be in spec. The only way to know is to measure all of them. Doubt you would really even want that done unless something is wrong.

From what I have been told, it's usually the power caps that wear out first. Sadly they are also the most expensive and sometimes hard to find.

Just measured the caps on my crossovers with my 35yo speakers, they were all in spec but all over the place alone with the resistors. But sadly not the same from left to right. I'm going to recap my XO's soon. The reason was the L/R are not sounding the same, right was a little more defined, left was a bit brighter.