What do bad caps sound like?


My MF Nuvista M3 is out being re-capped at the moment - preemptively as I don't think I had an issue - but just out of curiosity, if caps were to go bad in an amp is there a particular sound that makes, or specific degredation in sound quality?
grimace

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When they went out in my subwoofer amp they made the driver just go pfft pffft blffft pfft pfft. Pppppppb pppppb. BTW- I'm not kidding. Really. REALLY! You should have heard me trying to explain it to Albert at VSA.

You could also SEE that the caps had gone out as the tops were flat but when they went out they were domed.