|
|
Post by Bainzy on Nov 25, 2005 21:22:31 GMT
Which is the best, and why? ;D
Discuss...
|
|
|
|
Post by tonejones on Aug 20, 2006 1:44:32 GMT
Have heard nothing but great things about them.... I have the Mustard + (the originals I mean) in my 1959 clone, but hear from reliable sources that the new vintage caps are even better!!!!!
After watching much debate over where there was a break-in period or not, I gotta say from personal experience that I definitely think there is!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by Bainzy on Aug 27, 2006 1:28:53 GMT
I have the Mustard + (the originals I mean) in my 1959 clone, but hear from reliable sources that the new vintage caps are even better!!!!! Same here - supposedly John at Sozo picked the best of the best Mustard caps he found, and made replicas of those. |
|
krong
New Member
Posts: 6
|
Post by krong on Sept 7, 2006 3:33:16 GMT
The company I work for distributes most of these caps as well as others including some NOS stuff. Which is to say I have acess to these guys at a good price.  Perhaps we can throw together some type of test chassis or circuit to switch between several caps of the same value but different makes with a rotary switch??? Just thinking out loud so to speak. My experience has led me to believe that most components in amplifiers, Caps, resistors, tubes, transformers etc all have their own effect on overall sound. With caps its harder to quantify "Good" and "bad" as far as tone goes simply because we all have such widely variable definitions of "good" tone. I like one brands sound over another depending on the sound I'm after.. Or the look. Sometimes I just can't stand the way a modern production cap looks in an old circuit no matter how it sounds.. I'm an orange drop fan for most applications. Mainly because they never let me down. Never found a bad one fron new stock, leads are long enough to reach most turret or eyelet boards and they look cool  and sound great. ;D |
|
|
|
Post by Bainzy on Sept 7, 2006 18:13:11 GMT
Perhaps we can throw together some type of test chassis or circuit to switch between several caps of the same value but different makes with a rotary switch??? Just thinking out loud so to speak. Sounds like a good plan!  I guess we'd have to keep the caps to about 1% tolerance though to make sure it's a fair test, and test them in important signal positions at the least. |
|
krong
New Member
Posts: 6
|
Post by krong on Sept 8, 2006 5:49:40 GMT
Coupling and tonestack for sure. I'll poke around an see what kind of chassis I can come up with for this.
|
|
|
|
Post by bsmith on Mar 16, 2009 14:47:59 GMT
I think the best being made today are SoZo's, however I still like the sound of the old mustards better.
|
|
nilo
New Member
Posts: 14
|
Post by nilo on Mar 17, 2009 11:35:03 GMT
I voted Orange drop, because they look very cool though, i don't think there is any huge difference between different caps... |
|
Perhaps we can throw together some type of test chassis or circuit to switch between several caps of the same value but different makes with a rotary switch??? Just thinking out loud so to speak. My experience has led me to believe that most components in amplifiers, Caps, resistors, tubes, transformers etc all have their own effect on overall sound. With caps its harder to quantify "Good" and "bad" as far as tone goes simply because we all have such widely variable definitions of "good" tone. I like one brands sound over another depending on the sound I'm after.. Or the look. Sometimes I just can't stand the way a modern production cap looks in an old circuit no matter how it sounds.. I'm an orange drop fan for most applications. Mainly because they never let me down. Never found a bad one fron new stock, leads are long enough to reach most turret or eyelet boards and they look cool 
and sound great. ;D 