For resistors, if i think about the question, maybe inductance, or non inductance plays big role, sometimes when i dont like some sound, i bypass this stage and listen with/without stage included. If i dont like sound of some stage, i start to change resistors. Sometimes from MF to CF, sometimes from CF to MF!R.G. wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:23 pm Again, I have no question that you do, in fact, perceive huge differences. My question is > why < do you perceive this difference in spite of the great amount of technical work that's been expended to make it not be there in the resistors themselves?
Capacitors are another issue. Caps are easy to mislead yourself with. Capacitors are getting better in the last two decades, with affordable 10% and even 5% film caps on the market. But it's very, very easy to listen to two "100nF" caps where a polyester cap is 10% high and a polypro is 10% low and conclude that the film dielectric makes for different tone. They both say 100nF right there on the cap, after all. Have you tried your listening test with different dielectrics but with matched capacitance values and someone else swapping capacitors so you can't see which you're listening to?
So can be, this part good in this application.
About the caps....many times i recap whole preamp (made on pcb with tubes on pcb, so no external wiring..so swap is easy and results are clear), with 10 different brands or composition.. you can find big differences in this way, excluding wiring or rewiring efects (lead dress).
Then what im searching- before i was searching- top sound, tried very expensive compoents.. now im trying to make at least excellent sound with parts what i have stored (tons of them) so i'm trying to go towards white iskra MKT blocks and MKP from 80ties.. using everywhere in pedals and developing various amps..but for the moment i like more Orange drops polyester and polypropilenes for clean sounds..
