Hi AudioCircle members,
I’d like to hear from anyone that has experience with Vcap OIMP’s used as coupling caps in a preamp that can shed some light on they’re sound. I’d like to put four 3.0uf OIMP caps in my preamp as their physical size will fit, but due to the review below I’m having my doubts about buying any. I’ve looked into a lot of caps but really hope to use oil caps without any by-passing.
Mundorf’s SIO caps are too large to fit inside my preamp.
Here is the article:
http://www.laventure.net/tourist/caps.htm Chris Venhaus ends up defending his caps stating:
"Most of the applications the OIMP's are being used for are outside the scope of your testing. They're best suited for use as larger value output coupling caps (bypassed with a 0.01 TFTF—especially in digital circuits), as a bypass for electrolytic power supply filter caps, in a cascade with smaller value TFTF's, and in loudspeaker x-overs (although TFTF tweeter bypass caps work great on all but metal domes)."
I don’t know what to make of this review.
Steve.