Comments on: Waiting for the deadtest

By: Richard Birch

Richard Birch — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:18:47 +0000

Seriously, don’t even go there when it comes to dumbasses doing stupid things that ‘massively improve’ the quality of their audio.

I was looking up how to create a RAM disk in 2016 without resorting to the dumb iSCSI target hack, and I found someone who was giving instructions on how to run Windows Server 2016 entirely from a RAM disk because he ‘swore’ that it made his music sound better. I wish I was joking. I just don’t get it.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 15:04:55 +0000

In reply to Chris M..

I was expecting to pay under $1 Hong Kong for them, as it’s a capacitor after all.

The whole thing was so over the top buying it, as it was a crowd of someone buying vacuum tubes, face masks and temperature lasers…

The whole “for audio only” and crazy prices really had me wondering, especially as the machine did nothing after I swapped it. But so strange it works fine the next day. And it’s still working today.

So odd.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 15:01:25 +0000

In reply to Roy. Great I'll have to check it out on my day off.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 23:03:42 +0000

for Cap, WECL should have it in reasonable price.
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By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:29:41 +0000

I know Nichicon has their “gold” line for audio use, but even those are overpriced snake oil when you compare the specs to their low leakage capacitor series. Any low leakage capacitor is fine in audio paths, especially compared to what was available in the 1980s.

Tonerex is ELNA’s “audio grade” cap line. Not a bad part, but still expensive when any 470uF cap could have done the job.

C64s can be fussy. Start with a simple re-seat of all the ICs (what few there are) and cleaning contacts on everything.