Preamp power supply capacitor upgrade


I recently purchased a used Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme 1.3 preamplifier. Although it sounds excellent, I’m on a quest to get it to sound as close to the Backert Labs Rhythm as I can on the cheap. I’ve already sent it back for the 1.4 circuit upgrade and I upgraded the coupling caps to V-Cap ODAM’s. I’ve also upgraded the tubes to Amperex 7316’s from several recommendations here. For reference, my amplifier is Coincident Frankenstein 300B MkII and speakers are Reference 3A Reflectors.

The Rhythm power supply uses four 0.33uf V-Cap CuTF caps which gets rather costly at $218 each. However, the TFTF caps are discounted at $104 each.

My question is, since these would be used in the power supply, would the price differential justify going with the CuTF vs the TFTF?

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Thanks for the suggestions!

@bigkidz The Miflex copper foil/polypropylene oil and Mundorf Supreme silver gold series are certainly within budget and worthy of consideration.

@alan60 The "vertical" configuration of the leads of Duelund would may pose a problem, so I’d like to stick with the "horozontal" configuration.

I would be interested if anyone has any thoughts on the Audyn true copper max or silver series metalized silver polypropylene.

I think I’m beginning to over think this, so might just stick with the discounted V-Cap TFTF since it’s going in the power supply.

@mark200mph The cap supply store I use is partsconnexion.

@yowser Your goal here is, I assume, to improve performance.

To that end, by bypassing the power supply, what you want is uniform output impedance of the power supply at all frequencies. So the correct dielectric may not be the one that is also the most expensive!

I'd stay away from oil and paper parts as they have a way of developing electrical leakage and may also leak physically. We stored a bag of such parts for about 10 years and upon retrieval, found that the bag smelled of oil. So for reliability I would not use such parts if DC voltages are involved.