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Serenechaos,

You did not mention one another ugly fact the all recommendations about the “quality” of components have any validity in a relatively short distance. It might be no true if we are taking about vintage element but the contemporary production is very vibrant. I do not want to generally but it is highly possible that a contemporary company that produces a very good product with a few years surreptitiously turns this very product into a very bad product. I have vitals it myself. For instance the gold plated metal film Holco resistors a few year back were very good and then the quality went down and down and down. I know a few products hat used Holco at critical location and those products from 1997 and 2007 are so different in sound that you would never believe that they are the same products.

Adrian,

I think you are trying to get is not fruitful. You see the sonic contribution of some kind of specific element in the specific location is possible to assess only in context of the whole “philosophy of sound” that a person expects, to get from a given audio devise. I am not taking about synergy of balancing the thighs out but rather about having an evaluating scale upon which all judgments are reflected.  Collecting opinions is educational but not truly useful. There somewhere at my site a link to many pages of detail observation about different caps.   I never was able to read it through and did not found it useful for myself. But my own perception of those thighs is kind of bizarre and I always try to address my very specific need in DIY audio. I so much do not like it that I would like to believe that I never will be doing DIY audio again.  So, if I found something that “works” then I truly would like to forget and do not temp myself to use it in future. Strange but it is what it is….

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