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Softest, smoothest sounding capacitors you've tried?

Since I'm going for a very vintage sound (my preference), what caps have you tried (speakers or coupling) that struck you as super soft and/or smooth sounding (which would include the effect of being very low distortion). Resolution's irrelevant here. I need large values (2.2uF and 3.3uF), so Russian jobbies are out (already tried them years ago -- they were "OK")

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bigkidz
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@terry9 oimp are oil impregnated  polypropylene.  Clarity also has a sound

bigkidz
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Agree with Rodman99999 - you can try Takman carbon resistors.

Don't agree 100% with Eric and petg60.  All caps have coloration (every single one does) as opposed to using chokes instead of capacitors.  Agree with mickeyb - V-Cap oil caps are smooth but do allow detail to come through.

Jupiter Copper foil not our cup of tea but are slow and musical.

 

Not a fan of Mundorf but have used them with good results but nothing special to our ears.

Power supply I believe we used Motorola or Mitsubishi or maybe we used Mundorf I forget PS caps with musical results when we could not fit Nichicon PS caps - I am talking about the large capacitors not the ones placed on a circuit board.

Lots of responses and you have to try them out for yourself to see how they sound in your system.

 

 

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