What type of capacitor gives the best sound?

[alparent]

Only the finest tropical wood housing
http://www.dhtrob.com/projecten/elna1_en.php

Ok, I could understand wanting to put a nice wood cover on an exposed cap....let's say for a exposed tube amp with big caps on the outside.

But you don't have to dismental the caps to do that!

But his last sentance got me........"Now your caps will sound better!" Come on!

[gcme93]

Only the finest tropical wood housing

http://www.dhtrob.com/projecten/elna1_en.php

"takes only 2 hours of your time" - Ahhh I've been looking for something to do between breakfast and lunch! Great!

"If you do not trust your skills, Cees Piet is willing to make you a pair as described above. This will cost you 50Euros, the capacitors excluded" - Thats most kind of him to do it for just 50Euros. I'm such a clumbsy idiot with my bankirai wood enclosures! Maybe he could replace all of the caps in my Rogue synth like this.

[Kesh]

Great way to stop your caps from dissipating heat and shorten their life.

Jeez people are stupid.

[duck_arse]

the problem, I find, with the tropical fish caps, is keeping their water heated.

now, if they was encased in stone, we could have something like a sauna system ....

[Chris Brown]

If our perceptions effect what we think "sounds good" then whichever capacitor looks the coolest to you or has the most historic/sentimental value to you should be the one that sound the best to you.`

[jk-fm]

custom built copper, silk, & mahogany cap

http://studiozey.com/vnmcap/index.html

[Perrow]

custom built copper, silk, & mahogany cap

http://studiozey.com/vnmcap/index.html

Anyone knows where I can source my own "audio grade copper foil"?

[stallik]

Church roof?

[alparent]

Here are some fancier wrapper alternatives.... a whole series of them.

Tropical Fish caps = TONE! 

The 2 white ones in the middle......is that for matched capacitors? You know you have to match your caps ..... for the ultimate tone ..... right!?

[Perrow]

Church roof?

Divine tone 

[stallik]

Seriously for a moment though it's difficult within this thread, I had a problem with a twin caster build. I'd fluffed the wiring somewhere but while I was debugging, I found that bigger caps really helped the tone. Now I appreciate that the original tone was being totally strangled by my mistake but it makes me wonder if, in part, these special caps do actually improve the sound of a 'badly' designed amp and hence their reputation?
Probably not but there is a part of me that likes to think that some of these mega-fi amps aren't all they're cracked up to be

[FiveseveN]

How do you mean "bigger"? As in larger capacitance? Of course a different capacitance will have an effect, but that has nothing to do with the type of construction or dielectric or the brand.

[stallik]

Bigger as in higher voltage, physically larger same value. In my case, they were apparently holding a higher charge which in turn allowed the circuit to perform better when a miss wiring was bleeding a good amount of my precious 12v to ground. Effectively, they were becoming the battery. (sort of)
I must point out however that when the miss wiring was corrected, changing the caps made absolutely no difference whatsoever

[gcme93]

Here are some fancier wrapper alternatives.... a whole series of them.

Tropical Fish caps = TONE! 

The 2 white ones in the middle......is that for matched capacitors? You know you have to match your caps ..... for the ultimate tone ..... right!?

Of course! But someone seems to have hooked up the polarities completely wrong here...

[Perrow]

Bigger as in higher voltage, physically larger same value. In my case, they were apparently holding a higher charge which in turn allowed the circuit to perform better when a miss wiring was bleeding a good amount of my precious 12v to ground. Effectively, they were becoming the battery. (sort of)
I must point out however that when the miss wiring was corrected, changing the caps made absolutely no difference whatsoever

I suspect that while equal in nominal value, the capacitors where different in actual value. It made some difference in your miswired circuit, but not in the correct one. Caps are usually about 20% tolerance, so two caps of equal value might be far from equal.

To verify your findings you'd have to match your caps (sorry, had to get that in here).

[alparent]

You guys realise that I have add more replies to this bogus post then I ever got with a serious one! Go figure?

[SmoothAction]

Studiozey.com is.... woah. Just finished reading the whole website and wood modding a 100uf electrolytic. We'll see how it sounds haha. That website had me saying "wtf is going on" more than any other on the web. @55 euro for a capacitor, they better be the best damn capacitors on the planet.

[alparent]

Don't know if different woods gives different tones?

I think they have a 900 number where you can talk to a psychic and she will tell you what wood would better compliment your ora.

[duck_arse]

I stopped looking at that site after two pages. spare me!

does this block make (much as I hate it) wooden vero? audio standard copper, natch. that would improve the sound of some fuzz boxes, I'm sure.

and I want to see something he has built with this tree crap. something like a 100W stereo amp, or better still, a preamp, with all the rca sockets needed for modern life, and all made from wood. he can make the case from wax impregnated silk, if it helps ....

for "block" above, read either blockhead or bloke, which is what I meant to type

[Jdansti]

Only the finest tropical wood housing

http://www.dhtrob.com/projecten/elna1_en.php

"This modification takes only 2 hours of your time if stuck to the materials mentioned above (the making of the wooden housings excluded). It is fun doing this, sure different than most modifications to amplifiers! If you do not trust your skills, Cees Piet is willing to make you a pair as described above. This will cost you 50Euros, the capacitors excluded. Contact for more information Cees."


Or to save time and money (and it's more fun!), you could smear peanut butter in your butt crack and achieve an even better sound.  Caveats: (1) you must sit on the device containing the capacitors, and (2) the peanut butter is no longer edible.

It would be great if someone would try it and post a video.