"no copper oxidation to ever degrade the music. "

[Pbpix]

Boy oh boy... can't wait to pay $13.90 for a .1 uf "MUSIC" cap!

hurry... only eight available... lol
and how about this for a quality guarantee.. "Can't accept returns on electronic parts."

Ebay # 300292939051

http://cgi.ebay.com/Hovland-Mu ... ONTROL-NEW!_W0QQitemZ300292939051QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=&itemid=300292939051
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"Whoso would be a MAN... must be a non-conformist ...for nothing is at last sacred as the integrity of your own mind."
... (Emerson)

[sofaslug]

Who cares about a guarantee. No one lucky enough to score one of the eight remaining Music Caps would ever even *think* of sending it back!

Bob

[dynadude]

There are boutique guitar parts sites that sell musicaps for upward of $20 each.

I like them, and have used them in a few of my own guitars, but I bought them in lots for about $2.50 each, and thought THAT was ridiculous.
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Spacekat DesignsUnique Musical Instruments

[Pbpix]

[John Bartley]

Well, I'm not enough of an audiophile to care, nor are my ears good enough to hear minor differences in sounds, so I sure won't criticise anyone else's choice of components and I might even think about buying some just to experiment with (curiosity), but.......$20 to ship one capacitor is a bit extreme.

cheers

John
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[Pbpix]

[bb.odin]

A Solen 0.1uF 630V "fast" cap costs $1.45. A similar "orange drop" cap costs $1.30. Who cares about the "music" cap or other caps like that with a ridiculous price tag? Not me! I'd like to see the real technical specifications instead of the audiophool jargon.

[John Bartley]

[bb.odin]

RC-coupling is relative cheap even at this price. Has anybody tried a set of transformers from alumrocktech. If you want one, be ready to trade your new car for it.

[Doug VanCleave]

[renaissance.man]

Caps are more than microfarads and voltage ratings. It is much more plausible that one can hear variations in different caps than say, variations in resistors. When I see a pair of RCA patch cables going for 500 bucks I laugh. These same phools who buy these think they can "hear" the difference between copper and silver wire used to wire an amplifier. They also claim to be able to hear the difference between power cords. I saw a used 1/4 pound spool of solder go for a couple hundred bucks because it was the same solder used by Western Electric. Yes, they will also claim to hear variations in solder used. I have an old AES catalog describing some Music Caps(i think that was the brand) and some crazy broad(the maker of the caps perhaps) goes out on a limb and begins describing her "musical impression" of these caps. The most hilarious part is how she states the bass stays in pace with the tempo of the music. Now THAT was funny.

Just once, I would love to see Myth Busters do an audiophool episode.
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Ed

[Doug VanCleave]

There is some fairly sophisticated test equipment available in this new millennium. One would think that such monumental differences in sound would be electronically quantifiable and actually have units of measure assigned to them.

Example: Blackness = Negative lumens 0 to -10knL/sec (BNLS)
Sound Stage = Cubic meters of solid maple sage flooring. (CMMF)

If the difference can't be seen on an oscilloscope at the speed of light, how can it be heard at the speed of sound? There surely must be some way that these sound qualities can be detected, measured and analyzed, that is if they truly exist.
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Turn it up, embarrass your kids.

[Big Harry]

According the audio lunatics, the more that is spent on a part or piece of equipment, the better it sounds. I like the claim that a $400.00 power cord connected between an amp and the wall outlet will make the amp sound better. I doesn't matter that the rest of the AC line is made of 40 year old wiring and connections. Harry

[renaissance.man]

[Big Harry]

Ed, I went to Home Depot and asked them for silver romex and they said that it had to be ordered and it's $300.00 per foot. If I buy it and rewire my house will my Philco 37-116 have more clarity and sound less chocolately? Harry

[oldmarine]

Well I'm sure it would until the "silver migration" attacked
Ron

[Ted]

300 bucks a foot??? What is silver romex specified for, anyway? Silver is pricey stuff, but sheesh.

During world war II copper was in short supply or at least pretty much already spoken for. The secret programs for Calutrons (gaseous diffusion) at oak ridge and elsewhere were going to require enormous amounts of copper for motor windings and bus bars and that kind of thing. Somebody got the bright idea that since copper was unobtanium in those quantities, and Treasury was sitting on all kinds of silver, why not use that instead? It's the best conductor there is, even better than gold. I wonder if the phoolery gang knows this? Easy bar bet to win. Anyhoo, the secret projects ended up borrowing 13,000 tons or better!! It was wound into wire by Allis-Chalmers in Wisconsin. It would have been interesting to wonder what the workers were thinking.

[Big Harry]

I was joking about the silver romex. I'm sure that anyone in the electrical dept. of Home Depot would think that I should be committed if I asked for something like that. The cpooer Romex in my house works just fine, though I did upgrade all of the outlets to the higher grade outlets because the wires fit tighter on the connections and plugs fit tighter in the outlets. Harry

[Samham]

When one of General Grove's staff members went to the Dept. of The Treasury to request a loan of silver. he dealt with a Treasury official who had been cleared to be told about the A Bomb project. After he was briefed, he asked "How much silver do you need." When he was was told "X tons," he drew himself up and said "At The Treasury, sir, we speak of silver in ounces, not tons!"

BTW, the Calutrons were the electromagnetic separators, not the gaseous diffusion process. They used huge magnets, hence the need for silver to to make the wiring for the magnets.